Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: Off Limits
SERIES: Legacy Mechanics
AUTHOR: Willow Dixon
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 327 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2025
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Asa
For eight years I’ve lived in the shadow of my golden child stepbrother. Dex is everything our parents want in a son, and I’m the weirdo who can’t seem to get his life together.
After getting renovicted from my apartment, I’m forced to ask Dex for help. He agrees to let me stay with him while I find a new place, but neither of us is happy about it. Then I accidentally discover that my perfect stepbrother has an online side gig, and I learn how lucrative it can be.
Working together is supposed to be a way to make some extra cash, but it’s impossible to keep things in the business zone when I start to realize that maybe Dex is just as misunderstood and lonely as me.
Dex
The only downside to moving home after college is that I can’t avoid my stepbrother anymore. Asa is one of the most aggravating people I’ve ever met, and he’s spent the last eight years letting me know exactly what he thinks of me.
After agreeing to let him stay with me so he doesn’t end up homeless, he accidentally finds out about my online job. No one else knows my secret, but instead of using it against me, he suggests we work together as a solution to his money problems and my desire to get him out of my apartment as quickly as possible.
I already know this is going to be messy, but I’m not prepared for how difficult it is to keep our arrangement impersonal. And the more I learn about my closed-off stepbrother, the more I realize that maybe we aren’t so different after all.
Asa and Dex’s story is an opposites attract stepbrother romance between a jock and a nerd who can’t keep things in the business zone. You can expect dislike to friends to lovers, hurt/comfort, found family, online spicy times, reluctant roommates, some snark, lots of heat, and all the feels as these two men realize that sometimes the person you need is someone you shouldn’t want. It is book 4 in my Legacy Mechanics series but can be read as a standalone.
REVIEW:
Note: This is the fourth book in this series and does have very minor spoilers for the previous books. That said, it can absolutely be read as a standalone.
Asa and Dex can’t stand each other. They are stepbrothers who met when they were teenagers after their parents who were having an affair got pregnant, divorced their spouses and got together. You can imagine the number this did on their teenage sons. And it only got worse from there. Then four years ago, Dex and Asa had sex. One night only when Dex was home from Notre Dame where he was a football player on scholarship.
Dex is the golden boy. He’s not returned home after working a couple years to do a graduate program nearby. He’s got his own place and he’s still the favorite. He didn’t come home for quite a while for reasons.
Asa is a mechanic. He and Dex could not be more different. Like in every way. Dex – football player. Asa – smaller makeup wearing tattooed pierced. They really cannot stand each other. But then Asa gets “renovicted” from his apartment and Dex is truly his last resort. And Dex takes him in.
Dex is making extra money camming. Asa is floored when he finds out. Nobody has the “expected” reaction. Then Dex’s audience asks for Asa. Surprisingly Asa is sort of into it. And he’s certainly into making money via this side hustle.
What neither of them expected is to discover that they actually don’t hate each other. Turns out they have a lot more in common than they thought. Like having really awful parents. Like being on their own in ways they never expected. Like needing support and turning to each other. Surprise surprise!
So I was a little skeptical about how this book would go. Thrilled to say I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I really came to care about these two. These parents were really awful. Like some people just should not have kids. They way the whole lot of them treated Asa and Dex – so disappointing! There is a LOT of sex in this – of course it starts off with the camming and for money but quickly feeling are involved. The communication weirdly (at least it seemed that way to the characters) seemed to flow once they started being honest. Their perceptions of each other were based on assumptions – not the real story behind the masks. I thought it was handled really well. Neither had any inkling what the other had been up against. When they teamed up? Well things start to improve for both of them 🙂 They encourage and support and trust in each other and in the dreams and aspirations both have. I loved that this was not a one way street. There was plenty of give and take and only wanting the other to be successful and happy at the end of the day. The epilogue was delightful! Really a truly happing ending for some very deserving characters.
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