Reviewed by Anna Lynn

TITLE: Handy

SERIES: Four Bears Construction #8

AUTHOR: K.M. Neuhold

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH: 208 Pages

RELEASE DATE: February 3, 2025

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My new neighbor may be grumpy but he’s also hot, and very good with his hands…

I definitely overestimated my own handyman skills when I bought this fixer-upper. I have to say, the view from my new place is worth it though. Especially around seven o’clock every morning when my big, furry bear of a neighbor drinks his coffee shirtless on his back porch.

He’s dedicated to the bear thing too. Growly, grumpy, and as it turns out, he really likes belly rubs.

Am I a sucker for a touch starved grump? Yes. Am I sorry about it? Absolutely not.

Getting Griff into my house and into my bed is the easy part. Convincing him I’m actually interested in him is so much harder.

I didn’t mean to turn myself into his secret admirer, but if sending him anonymous presents and notes is the only way to wear down his gruff exterior, then that’s what I’m going to do.

Sooner or later he’ll realize he’s more than just my grumpy handyman, right?

Handy is a super low angst, high heat, romantic comedy featuring a grumpy “Bear” (not the shifter kind ), and his sunshiney neighbor who becomes his secret admirer. It can be read as a stand alone but the most enjoyment will be from reading it as part of the full Four Bears Construction Series.

REVIEW:

A very sweet and beautiful read indeed!

Handy tells us the story and backstory of Griff, one of the additional bears in the Four Bears Construction, and Ledger, a Park Ranger, who is the exact opposite of the growly and scowly Griff.

Griff has his reasons for being a loner. He lost the love of his life and he truly felt that that was his only chance of happiness because he thinks he is too grumpy to attract someone like Riley ever again. Add to that the fact that he has no social life at all these days (which I think is by choice). He just works and goes home. Meanwhile all his bosses and other coworkers are always including him in their camaraderie and banter while at the office or at the several sites they work on, but he is not comfortable with it all. If truth be told, Griff is just so lonely but he is afraid that no one will stick around for the long haul. He secretly longs for friends but he is too set in his ways to allow all of these guys in or allow one guy to take a hold of his heart again.

Ledger is a happy person. His love life is another story. He is attracted to a certain type of man. He loves bears but he always chose the one who are not emotionally available because maybe deep down he is also afraid of the total commitment required in being a relationship. That is what his friend says anyway. But when he saw his neighbor, he just couldn’t help himself but be attracted to him and start peeking through his window whenever his neighbor takes his coffee in his porch. When an accident happened in his newly-bought fixer-upper of a home, his neighbor readily came to the rescue. And as fate would have it, he does construction. They made a deal which Ledger thinks is just too good to be true. Because he feels that this guy is going to be different from all the other guys he has been with. He feels that this guy would be it.

Griff and Ledger are as opposite as water and oil, but they are what each other needs. Griff is growly and scowly while Ledger is happy and just full of sunshine.

I love how the story progress from our main characters just being neighbors to them working on Ledger’s house and the deal they made for it. How Ledger slowly burrows himself into Griff’s life (home and work). How he slowly fills up the lonely life that Griff has allowed himself to live through thinking that he can never find another love like Riley. Ledger is full of positivity and love, sunshine and laughter, all the things that Griff doesn’t have in his life.

Thank you so much Ms. K.M. Neuhold for another wonderful and beautiful story of love, it makes me giddy to think of these two all loved up and starting to live a life together that is full of happiness and love.

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