Title: The Making of Matt
Series: Souls of the Knight
Author: Nicola Haken
Genre: M/M Romance
Release Date: 19 October 2015
Matt Carter, self-proclaimed sex-god and drummer for world renowned Souls of the Knight, didn’t have the time or inclination for planning his future, preferring to fill his days with music, women and alcohol. He didn’t want or need anything else in his life.
Until the band parted ways and he found himself no longer living the dream.
Bored and lonely, with too much time and money on his hands, Matt turns to his best friend, Alex Clark, to help devise a new direction to take his life in. Together, they embrace their newfound venture, as owner and manager of one of L.A.’s hottest gay clubs – Kaleidoscope. For the first time, Matt has a plan. He knows where life is heading.
Until a devastating phone call turns his whole world upside down, sending him straight into the comforting arms of his best friend and leading him to doubt everything he’s ever known or believed about himself.
Alex had always been content with his unrequited feelings for his rockstar friend, but as Matt starts to question if he might actually feel the same, he runs as fast as his feet will allow.
Has Matt gone too far? Has his reputation as an irresponsible womanizer who refuses to take life seriously, finally managed to push his best friend away for good?
Or is Alex hiding secrets of his own?
“Matt, are you telling me you think you’re in love with Alex?”
“No! Yeah…fuck I don’t know. I can’t be, right?”
“If you’d asked me an hour ago I’d have said ‘don’t be so fucking ridiculous’, but after listening to you, fuck I really don’t know. Answer me this, you said he touched your dick and you freaked. Why, if you kissed him first?”
“Because I almost came right there in my fucking sweatpants and it scared the shit outta me. It made me question everything I’ve ever known. I mean come on, you can’t just turn gay, right?”
Just saying it out loud sounded fucking ludicrous.
“You’ve lived an extraordinary life, Matt. Maybe it’s something that’s always been there but never had an opportunity to come out.”
“I’ve met plenty of guys, Saw. Never once have I been attracted to a single one of ‘em.”
“Have you ever had your dick out of a woman long enough to actually get to know a guy before though?”
“Touché.” I laughed, not just at Sawyer’s comment but at the whole situation I found myself in. “This is all Jake’s fault, you know.”
“And how the hell do you figure that?”
“Because everything was fine before he came on the scene. We were happy living for the music and women, and then he shows up with all his fucking gayness and passes it on to you. Then, like the pair of you were some kind of butt bandit magnets, Ryder comes along. Then like the gift that keeps on giving the gayitis spreads and suddenly life is all gay porn, gay clubs and gay fucking underwear. It’s gayness overload, dude! I’m fucking telling you that shit is contagious.”
Sawyer snickered, rolling his eyes at the same time. “Is there such a thing as gay underwear?”
“According to Ryder,” I said, shrugging before undoing the button on my jeans to expose the branded hem of my underwear. Sawyer raised his eyebrow, one side of his mouth curling up into a smirk. “They’re comfortable,” I said, feeling the need to defend my favorite pair of shorts. “What the fuck am I gonna do?”
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
This is the third book in the Souls of The Knight series which is all about the rock band Souls
of the Knight (clever series title then eh?). Each book features a member of
the band and this time it is Matt, the sexy drummer.
I absolutely adore this series and I know that due to
personal reasons of the author, that this third book has taken time to be
released. But it was certainly worth the wait. I was questioning how this womanising
sex-god with little or no interest in life outside his public image, was going
to turn out. Well he turned out to be truly special and added a whole new
dimension of him I just did not see coming. I loved him!
Matt, with his no filter, free to be himself attitude, was
the opposite of calm and considerate Alex. They struck up a friendship that
developed into best buddies and both close as could be. But it appeared Alex
was hiding his true love for his best friend and then something happened that
made Matt wake up to something he didn’t know he was feeling deep down for his
best friend.
I loved the take no shit attitude from Matt and when he
found himself wanting to kiss and do other stuff with Alex, he took himself off
to research ‘being gay’ and watching gay porn as an example to see if he really
was falling for this best friend.
Alex was at first reluctant to take things further
but little did we know the huge curveball that was waiting in the wings to be
thrown full centre stage into the mix. The serious subject matter was a huge
shock and I for one, was greatly enlightened so much so that I went and researched
it further. I didn’t realise how little I knew about this.
Besides the seriousness of the element that Alex brought to
the story, there was also plenty of comedic and banter between the pair and the
other members of the band. His texts to Alex were hilarious and his journey to
discovering his new self had me laughing my socks off. It was great to catch up
with Sawyer and the other guys too. Even though the band was no longer on the
road performing it was lovely to see the ‘family’ still together and supporting
each other.
The sexy times were so romantic but erotic and raunchy but
also so powerful to see the trust and devotion between these two gorgeous men.
This book just had everything going for it, the laughter,
the tears, the angst, the passion but also the serious subject matter brought a
new depth to the storyline to give a fully complex and engaging read.
I just love this series so, so much and Matt’s story has
just further engraved this as one of the best m/m rock band series there is. A
solid five star read for me.
Nicola lives in Rochdale, England with her husband and four children (six if you include the dog and cat!) She is the author the author of the m/m romance Souls of the Knight series, and is currently working on a standalone with new boys, James and Theo, due for release early 2016. When she is not busy playing with her imaginary book friends (or talking about them with real life friends!) she can usually be found carrying out her ordinary mum/housewife/all round slave duties. Oh, and if the kids ever ask, she moonlights as the Pink Power Ranger while they're sleeping...
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