Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Not That Guy
AUTHOR: Felice Stevens
PUBLISHER: Good Man Press
LENGTH: 281 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 15, 2025
BLURB:
Not him.
Not that guy, Weston Lively.
The one I’ve hated since law school.
The man who gets by on good looks, a fat bank account, and a powerful, political father.
Our more-than-just-a-kiss one drunken night changes nothing between us.
We’re both still straight.
And we still hate each other.
It doesn’t matter that we work for the same law firm.
We’ve put what happened behind us.
Except….oops.
It might’ve happened again.
And again.
Hmm.
Maybe we don’t really hate each other anymore.
But there’s a bigger roadblock in our way.
Weston’s evil father.
The two of us together could ruin his chance at becoming President.
Especially with the press digging into my past and haunting our every move.
Then his father makes Weston a terrible offer he might not be able to refuse.
It would mean breaking us apart.
And breaking our hearts.
It was easier when I hated him.
Now I can’t imagine walking away.
How did the man I once hated with a fiery passion become the one who now sets my soul on fire?
REVIEW:
What thought provoking novel.
Weston and Brenner spent most of their Law School years competing fiercely against the other. They had strong views about the other. Brenner though that Weston was a golden child that partied hard and was born into a rich political family of a powerful Senator. He thought everything was handed to West. He did acknowledge that he was very bright. Weston thought Brenner was a stick-in-the-mud know-it-all who’s only goal in life was to try to beat him at every turn in school. But what both men learned years later was that things are not always as the appear.
These two men had more in common than they though. They both thought, at almost 40, that they only like women. Imagine their surprise and confusion when, during a drunken moment, they enjoyed the moment of passion that happened with each other. And how they were to process that moment the next day…and for another year later! When they find themselves not only partners in the same firm, but partners at a team building retreat, emotions run high. However, after Brenner’s brutal homophobic attack, Weston does the right thing bring the injured Brenner home with him to heal. During their forced proximity they find themselves acknowledging what happened the year before and it allows their chemistry to explode.
This was a bumpy journey. Having a mutual bi-sexual awakening, at close to forty, is a major game changer in both lawyer’s lives. Add in that they now are co-partners in the same firm adds another layer. Then add in their vast differences it their formative years, Brenner a foster child that bounced around until his forever home came. And West discovering at a young age who and what his father really was. This made the men who they became.
I wasn’t sure, at one point, if this was the novel for me. Divorce and attorneys are a touchy subject for me. However, even though both Weston and Brenner divorce attorneys, this book quickly moved from couples divorcing and onto political manipulation by Weston’s homophobic father running for president on a strict “Christian” platform. And politics always pique my interest.
I wondered if I had missed something with the many references about Archer and Madden. And it turns out o did. I have requested to review their story, Just One Night, also.
It turns out there is more to come. “And it’s not the last you’ll see of this dynamic duo, as they appear in the second book of this duet series, The Lucky Ones.” was included in the author’s notes at the end of the book. Yippee🎉
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