Title: Never Too Late
Series: Home in the Heartland #1
Author: Sloan Johnson
Genre: M/M Romance
Published: March 7, 2016
Series: Home in the Heartland #1
Author: Sloan Johnson
Genre: M/M Romance
Published: March 7, 2016
| Dax My life ended six years ago. No, really. I was dead on the side of the road following a gruesome motorcycle accident. From what I've been told, it's only because of one stubborn man that I have another chance to make something of my life. I no longer hate him for screwing up what I thought I wanted. I want to thank him. NEED to tell him what his actions mean to me. Now, I’m headed back to the town I’ve never set foot in even though it’s a huge part of my life. I’m not thrilled about that, but the job offers haven’t exactly been flowing in. They’ll probably think I’m crazy, because there’s no way I won’t be able to look at every guy I walk past, wondering if he’s the one who saved me. Michael My entire life, I wanted to save lives. I’d earned a full-ride scholarship and had been accepted to med schools across the country. I was so close to making those dreams a reality until the night held a dying man in my arms. I’ve never been able to get the images of his lifeless body caked in mud out of my head. Even when the paramedics tried to take over trying to save him, I couldn’t let go. I never let go. Eventually, my guilt over not doing more cost me everything but my son. And now, I worry I’ll lose him if I don’t get it together. I’ve often thought that if I could find him, maybe I could get some closure and finally get my life back on track. Now he’s here and I’m more of a mess than ever. Once the truth comes out, will he keep trying to save me or will he realize that it’s too late? |
*ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
Dax hits a turning point after a life threatening accident.
He has changed his life around and is starting again in Marshall as a
kindergarten teacher. As a gay man he is unsure what life will be like in a
small town. It’s here on his first day in town that he come across Michael and
his young son.
Michael is a widower and is struggling to cope with his job
as a bartender and looking after his small son. As such there are instances
where he takes his eye off the ball and his child running off. It’s on one such
occasion that he encounters a stranger who looks at him as if he is incapable
of looking after his son. He later finds out that this stranger is Dax and
lives on his street. After various bumping into each other the pair stop their
initial thoughts of each other and start a friendship.
Through time their friendship becomes close with Michael
relying on Dax to look after his son whilst he works the late shifts in the
bar. Dax starts to have feelings for Michael but as a gay man he has learnt not
to yearn for the straight guy as nothing could ever come of it. However when
Michael makes a shock move and confession then their relationship takes an
altogether surprising change.
Gay for you is one of my favourite tropes so I was
interested to see how this would pan out. I did find the initial start was a
slow burning but nice to read about small town life. I preferred the second
half of the book but would have loved a lot more angst to be thrown in. For
instance the way that Michael easily accepted his attraction to Dax. There was
no soul searching and self-doubt that I would have expected. There also wasn’t
much bigotry that I was expecting as well for a small town so this was more of
a light and sweet read for me.
I did like Michael and Dax though and the sexy times that
they had (especially the one in the basement of the bar!) Loved how
understanding Michael’s parents were too, great family! Also loved Max and
looking forward to see how he gets on with Justin (I guess that is the next
book?)
Overall a nice small town sweet m/m romance and I shall look
forward to more in the series. Three and a half stars.
| Sloan Johnson is a big city girl trapped in a country girl’s life. While she longs for the hustle and bustle of New York City or Las Vegas, she hasn’t yet figured out how to sit on the deck with her morning coffee, watching the deer and wild turkeys in the fields while surrounded by concrete and glass. When she was three, her parents received their first call from the principal asking them to pick her up from school. Apparently, if you aren’t enrolled, you can’t attend classes, even in Kindergarten. The next week, she was in preschool and started plotting her first story soon after. Later in life, her parents needed to do something to help their socially awkward, uncoordinated child come out of her shell and figured there was no better place than a bar on Wednesday nights. It’s a good thing they did because this is where she found her love of reading and writing. Who needs socialization when you can sit alone in your bedroom with a good book? Now, Sloan is a tattooed mom with a mohawk and two kids. She’s been kicked out of the PTA in two school districts and is no longer asked to help with fundraisers because she’s been known to lose herself with a good book and forget she has somewhere to be. |
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