Release Day Review: Dilly and Boz by John Inman #Review #Giveaway

Title: Dilly & Boz
Author: John Inman
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Aaron Anderson
Publication Date: November 19, 2019
Length: 209 Pages

Reviewed by Michael

Synopsis

It’s funny how love nails you when you least expect it.

Dilly Jones has pretty much given up on romance ever finding him. Boz Jenkins, his neighbor, is recently out of a bad relationship but has definitely noticed the cutie across the street. When Dilly drops a bag of donuts on the sidewalk, it sets a chain of events into motion. And suddenly both men’s hearts are lost.

But Boz’s ex is still hanging around, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get Boz back.With a brand-new romance gearing up to knock their socks off, the last thing Dilly and Boz expect is to get tangled up in a stranger’s murder. Or to find themselves fighting for their lives.

Just as they finally find happiness, their love for each other becomes the thing that threatens them the most.

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Review

Dilly and Boz are incredibly similar people.  They’re both broke.  They’re both socially awkward. And they’re both rather klutzy.  They also happen to be neighbors, living across the street from each other. 

Boz has had his eye on Dilly for quite some time.  Almost literally.  He knows where Dilly works.  He watches his neighbor’s comings and goings, and even witnesses Dilly trip over a piece of broken sidewalk.  Kind of border-line stalker.  Even going so far as to repair the broken piece of sidewalk in the middle of the night, just so Dilly doesn’t suffer another accident.  He’s also incredibly insecure, with good reason.  His abusive, drugged out ex, Bobby, just can’t seem to let Boz go, even though he’s seeing someone new.  Obsessed with “the one that got away”, he materializes out of nowhere at the most inopportune moments, simply to harass Boz.  Yeah, he’s a stalker too.

Dilly works at a used record store, run by an old man named Puffer who has a serious love for weed.  Interestingly, Puffer is instrumental in Dilly and Boz getting together, even as he provides some much-needed comedy relief.

But as the relationship progresses, Boz’s insecurities become more evident.  He constantly need validation, which is somewhat understandable given his previous relationship.

The writing was very straight forward.  No flowery phrases, no grand proclamations.  Which is very fitting for the MCs.  But it also lent itself to a certain amount of predictability.  You know something bad is going to happen and can pretty much guess who those bad things are going to happen to, but just aren’t sure when, or how disturbing it’s going to be.  Some of the stuff that Bobby does is truly cringeworthy.  But that also means that Dilly and Boz’s HEA is well earned.

I hope I never meet someone like Bobby. 

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