RELEASE DAY REVIEW: 'Tow Trucks & New Year's Kisses' by Lila Leigh Hunter
Title: Tow Trucks & New Year’s Kisses
Series: Cupcakes & Brews, #1 Author: Lila Leigh Hunter Published: November 21, 2016 Publisher: NineStar Press Cover Artist: Natasha Snow Genre: Contemporary Romance Length: 34 Pages Tags: Gay; M/M; Pansexual; Non-Explicit; Holiday: New Year’s; Novelette
BLURB:
A Jag with out-of-state plates is the last car Scott DeLaney expected to find when answering a tow call as a favor to his drunken godson. But, the tall man in the fedora seems like a nice reward until Scott finds out the stranger’s destination. Yes, he’d take care of the brooding man, but he has a selfish reason for it.
Finding himself in a ditch after dodging a deer is the least of Patrick Samuels’s problems when his rescuer arrives, wearing a tuxedo and driving a hot pink flatbed. Perhaps his older brother’s scheme will benefit Patrick after all.
Who knew that a New Year’s kiss is far more efficient than any boardroom strategy to seal a deal?
5 HEART READ
REVIEW:
I have to say when Lila Leigh Hunter’s Tow Trucks & New Year’s Kisses crossed my radar it was just what the doctor ordered. I was looking for an escape that only two men with a twisted sense of humor could give me and the excerpt alone hooked me.
Once I turned the first page Lila immediately captured my attention with imagery that didn’t let go.
It’s as if she has this ease, an elegance, in the way she structures her words; they just seem to progress the story without you thinking twice about it. Down to the way she craftily, and subtly interwork's details into the plot: hair color, eye color, age, interconnected relationships, even markings on one’s skin. Though divorced in his mid-forties, you get the full joy of Scott being very much a family man. The love, the importance of those bonds, is still alive for him and he fosters that. The fact that he is pansexual affords him only the opportunity that he is open to attraction to someone should they come along, regardless of their sex. It is pointed out, but not filtered out. After all, Scott is almost middle aged and for all intense and purposes seems to have a solid grasp on his life and circumstances. When Patrick is introduced it is very evident he is the complete opposite. A ruthless business man, stuck where he doesn’t feel he should be and full of a smart ass attitude.
When Scott and Patrick meet, and not under the most ideal of circumstances, their instant attraction is electric. The flirting is bold and cunning – and needy!
Even when the story line comes to a boil that desire doesn’t fizzle. In Tow Trucks & New Year’s Kisses Hunter brings you a well written short with two men who tantalize your libido with great teasing and foreplay, leaving you feeling as if you were cock blocked. But believe me – it was well worth it. I only hope that Lila gives us more of these boys’ story. After all with this kind of chemistry they have got to be epic between the sheets! An advanced reader copy of Tow Trucks & New Year’s Kisses was provided to Kimmers’ Erotic Book Banter, by Indigo Marketing and Design, in exchange for our fair and honest opinion.
Lila Leigh Hunter is the pen name of a Puerto Rican author with a hyphenated surname. Born and raised on the island, Lila grew up making up stories her siblings pretended to like. But no matter what they say, as the youngest of six, she’s still their mom’s favorite. According to the dusty diplomas on her wall, she’s an architectural designer living in Southern Texas with her husband and four military brats.
She spends most of her free time writing homoerotic romances about middle-aged men finding happiness and the rest hiding from pesky house chores. When outside of her cave, she likes to observe people and try to guess their stories. Sometimes she wishes the voices in her head were real; going out with the boys in her books sounds like a plan made in heaven.
