Reviewed by Anna Lynn

TITLE: Saving Mr. Bell

AUTHOR: H.L. Day

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH: 227 pages

RELEASE DATE: November 18, 2024

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When is a kidnap not a kidnap? When it’s a rescue.

Rudolf Bell does NOT need saving. But after the worst performance of his life, there are those who disagree. All he wants is to have a good time and forget everything for a while. Easier said than done when the media have done a hatchet job on him. His career’s not over, though. Not until he says so.

Arlo Thomas has never forgotten the classical pianist who looks more like a rock star, even if his documentary about the precocious talent never saw the light of day. Seeing Rudolf’s bad press spurs him to drastic action. It’s not kidnap if it’s a luxurious cabin and it’s for Rudolf’s own good. Right?

When a rekindled friendship turns to passion in the remote winter wonderland location, Arlo’s determination to resist Rudolf slowly crumbles. As the days pass, Rudolf may have to admit he did need saving, and that Arlo’s the perfect man to do it.
It’s a shame snow melts and all good things must come to an end before Christmas.

Saving Mr. Bell is a sweet low angst MM snowed in, forced proximity, only one bed winter/holiday romance featuring a Christmas tree that just never seems to get decorated, snow, sledging, strip poker, underwear sharing, more snow, wolves of a non-shifter nature, a cozy log cabin, humor, snark, lots of banter, and two men who’ll hopefully learn during the course of their stay that there’s always a way to get something if you want it badly enough.

REVIEW:

H.L. Day is not a new author to me, I have read a few books from her. She is an amazing writer and this book is a beautiful story of finding love in unexpected circumstances and with someone you connected with a few years back. This is a Christmas-themed story.

Arlo met Rudolf a few years back when he was supposed to do a documentary of how the famous pianist started, and his rise to fame. But after only a few days, his project was stopped and it never saw the light of day. But Arlo hasn’t stopped following Rudolf’s career ever since.

Rudolf is tired and burnt out. His life is not his to live, it is controlled by his father and his commitments. When one of his shows ended in a disaster, he just about had it. He asked to be picked up after a few drinks in a club when paparazzis bombarded him at the door. Luckily his driver was already waiting at the curb. But when he realized that his driver was not his driver and that he was being taken somewhere, he started to panicked. When the “supposed” driver introduced himself, he remembered the days they spent together a few years back, and the way they clicked and became friends.

Realizing that you are burning out and it takes someone who barely knows you (but not really right, I think Arlo knows him a lot) to make you see it just shows that you really are burning out. That maybe you have been doing the same thing for a really long time and maybe you need to change a few things.

But being in a cabin, snowed-in, sharing one bed and clothes make things more interesting and not having anything else to do but talk and get to know each other, it does make you think a few things about yourself, Rudolf realizes. Arlo and Rudolf had a connection all those years ago, and it was a beginning of something special but it got cut off. Now they have a chance to find out if there really was something there, while saving Rudolf from himself.

A story of two different people who somehow clicked and given the right circumstance to find out more about each other, just the two of them. Will reality destroy whatever this is between them the second time around? Or will these two give it a go this time?

A very beautiful read from H.L. Day, one that will make you swoon and believe in second chances if you are just brave enough to grab it. Congratulations! I can’t wait for your next book Ms. H.L. Day.

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