Cover Me, A Men of Smithfield Novel, by L.B. Gregg

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Living in a small town has its advantages, like knowing who is gay and who is not, or better who could be. Michael “Finn” Finnegan is an English teacher and he is tutoring Max Douglas’s younger brother; Max is Finn’s forbidden fantasy and one afternoon, when Max asks him to remain overtime to talk, Finn thinks it’s time to act upon his attaction… only to being fired soon after he managed to seduce Max in his office.

That is not really a good starting point for a relationship, and when Max comes to Finn’s prep school to bodyguard one of Finn’s students, the English teacher is not exactly thrilled. Sincerely I think that, outside of a working relationship, Max and Finn are perfect together: it’s not that Max doesn’t like Finn, it’s only that he thinks he is… lax. Of course Max’s judgement is limited to the working field, on a personal level Max really likes Finn and in more than one occasion he will prove it.

Max is a former marine, and he has also lost his long term companion, so he is not exactly the happiest of man; he is also very committed to his work and he doesn’t like distraction and Finn is a big distraction. But the working man Max and the loving man Max are not the same person, and I think that, if he had the chance to meet Finn outside a work relationship, they would have started things in a different way. Moreover I think Max really needs a man like Finn in his life, to lighten the mood and giving him the chance to let it go, at least when he is not working.

On the other side, Finn was burnt in the past and he thinks he wants only no strings attached relationships, but when he is faced with the chance to have one, he complains that Max is too aloof; I don’t think Finn really wants that, it’s only that he is weary to gamble with his heart again. Finn is a very spontaneous man, he likes sex but he also likes ordinary things like a relationship and a family: if he manages to find all those things in the same package he would be an happy man.

I liked the ligh and funny bitchering between the two men, it was clear that both of them cared for each other, but they were like children, not wanting to be the first one to call quit the game. Both men are adult and experienced, and so sex is good and healthy, with the right dose of details, but, at least from my perspective, realistic and ordinary, with ordinary not having a bad connation at all, for once I thought those men were having sex both since they wanted it and also since they had a feeling that was devoloping between them and sex was a way to cement it definetely.

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Amazon Kindle: Cover Me (Men of Smithfield)

Series: Men of Smithfield
1) Gobsmacked: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/657594.html
2) Happy Ending: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/894966.html
3) Cover Me

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