Review Post: Yes, Professor by Renae Kaye #Review #Giveaway

Author: Renae Kaye
Book: Yes, Professor
Self Published
Publication date: February 14, 2017
Length: 120 pages



Reviewed by Meredith


Synopsis

Twenty-two-year-old Avery Stewart has a crush on his neighbour. Always attracted to older men, Avery is tantalised by Mr Redding's professorial looks and obvious obsession with perfection.

When he finally gets the courage to speak to Christopher Redding, Avery manages to get invited back that evening on the pretext of bringing a cake for Christopher's birthday. But things don't work out how Avery had planned, and he finds himself sent home with the cake and without any intimacy.

Christopher is everything Avery has ever desired—older, self-assured, dominant, and intelligent. Avery needs someone in his life to take charge—in and out of the bedroom. He wants Christopher to be that man. However, Avery must first convince Christopher to take a chance on him.

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 Review

Okay, so, this book was so freaking adorable. I literally smiled the whole way through it. It’s totally a romantic comedy! The fact it is releasing around Valentine’s Day can’t be coincidence. Oh all the warm feels!

This is a younger guy and an older guy. Avery is in his early twenties and Christopher is forty-five. Age plays a factor in everything here. Avery has always been attracted to older men and Christopher is having some issues. He’s not ashamed of Avery, no. He feels Avery may tire of him and want to explore. Avery being only one year older than his daughter doesn’t go unnoticed either. 

Throughout the entire book the band of secondary characters are hell-bent on making Avery and Christopher communicate! These guys have a heck of an army behind them. And the whole cake thing… LMAO! Oh my word…. Priceless! You’ll see!

There’s steamy sex and the perfect balance at that. It’s funny, light, just gah! I wish I could come up with perfect words but they keep slipping. This book leaves you laughing. I ended it with a happy hoot! I haven’t felt that happy after finishing a book in a really long time. 

So if you can’t tell yet I’m highly recommending this book to the people looking for sweet romance, laughter, and the best feelings!!!

 About Renae Kaye

Renae Kaye is a lover and hoarder of books who thinks libraries are devilish places because they make you give the books back.  She consumed her first adult romance book at the tender age of thirteen and hasn’t stopped since.  After years – and thousands of stories! – of not having book characters do what she wants, she decided she would write her own novel and found the characters still didn’t do what she wanted.  It hasn’t stopped her though.  She believes that maybe one day the world will create a perfect couple – and it will be the most boring story ever.  So until then she is stuck with quirky, snarky and imperfect characters who just want their story told.

Renae lives in Perth, Western Australia and writes in five minute snatches between the demands of two kids, a forbearing husband, too many pets, too much housework and her beloved veggie garden.  She is a survivor of being the youngest in a large family and believes that laughter (and a good book) can cure anything.

 

How to contact Renae:
Email:  renaekaye@iinet.net.au
Website:  www.renaekaye.weebly.com
FB:  www.facebook.com/renae.kaye.9
Twitter:  @renaekkaye

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Release Day Review: The Straight Boyfriend by Renae Kaye #Review #Giveaway

Author: Renae Kaye
Book: The Straight Boyfriend
Series: Loving You #3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Publication date: November 21, 2016
Length: 237 pages




Reviewed by Meredith



Synopsis

Aaron Hall has never been able to remain faithful to a single woman, and for most of his life, he’s dated two women at once. Recently his girlfriend tracked him down and knocked on his door—and his live-in girlfriend answered. Now he has no girlfriend and a mortgage he can’t pay by himself.

Vinnie Rosello needs to change his life—get a better job, stop drinking all his money away, find himself a serious boyfriend… and move out of his parents’ house. Aaron needs help with his expenses, so they become housemates.

Even though Aaron harbors some misconceptions about gay men and Vinnie misses his large Italian family, both men find comfort in their friendship. It’s a good arrangement until everything between them changes

Vinnie falls in love with Aaron, and Aaron is shocked to realize he feels the same. There’s only one problem—he’s still straight. He’ll have to overcome his fear of labels in order to love the man who’s captured his heart.

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Review

The Straight Boyfriend is book three in Renae Kaye’s Loving You Series. Book one is Loving Jay, which is the book I found this author with and adored it! Book two is Don’t Twunk with my Heart, another awesome addition to this series. So, I was very excited to read this one.

I’ll admit the title did have me furrowing my brow, no lie. I knew right off the bat that this was a GFY story. Do I have issues with GFY stories? Sometimes. If written with laced disrespect it kills the story and in turn an author loses their audience. Did I find this one disrespectful? Not completely. Let me explain.

This is no doubt going to be, or already is, a controversial book. It’s a book that will be read by many who see it as a sweet love story, a fantasy come to life. Others will read it as insulting to their identities and those of the LGBTQ community. One cannot tell the other they are right in their feelings. So when you read this book you’ll need to make your own judgements. 

Vinny is an effeminate gay man. His parents are in a Polyamorous relationship… and they are a huge Italian family. Yeah, let that sentence absorb a bit. I grew up in an Italian family and all of that would have been a no go. So wrapping my head around it was something I tell you. Refreshing, yes. I like to think where we once had to hide our lifestyles we no longer do. So, Vinny’s life is a basket of labels.

Aaron… Okay this guy is where I had some issues,  and maybe not why you think. First off he identifies as straight. He is a philanderer, comes from a heterosexual family mom and dad. He’s a cheater. Straight up cheater of women. Not gonna lie I didn’t like him in the beginning. It was going to take a miracle to understand his thinking.

When his girlfriend leaves him (and rightly so) he’s stuck with a mortgage he can’t pay…yadda yadda enter Vinny to the rescue.

This story is off the charts different than the first two books without question. I had a lot of internal struggles reading this. My own feelings, beliefs, morals, and identity battled during my read. I put a lot of that away to form a professional outlook. 

I feel the author is writing a fairy tale of sorts. She’s twisting labels, yes. I can see where people would be upset but I really do not think that it’s the author’s intention to insult rather than make a fantasy in today’s society.  

It is a sweet romantic story with a wonderful HEA. I loved Vinny a lot and he was my favorite. I felt for him in many ways through this story. Aaron, though I’m happy he found a solid love for his life; in my own eyes I don’t feel it excuses his cheating. So I’m on the fence with how I feel about him. He’s like the guy I’ll be nice to because Vinny is my friend. I wasn’t thrilled with Aaron and how he identifies himself BUT I also cannot and will not judge a person based on how they feel inside so Aaron gets this. He does.

Like I said it’s different than the other two books and it will need a open mind and some moral struggles but it’s a good addition to the series.

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