Title: Chilling with Max (Love Off Leash: Book Three)
Author: Bonnie Dee
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 94 Pages
Category: Contemporary
At a Glance: Bonnie Dee takes us on a journey of self-discovery, almost, with these two men who, when encountering their polar opposite, manage to turn the mirror inward and then meet the other man halfway.
Reviewed By: Carrie
Blurb: High tension meets laid back in a collision of opposites.
Grant Edgerton hasn’t had free day in years. From overachieving student to workaholic real estate developer in a high-pressure firm, he’s striven for success to the point of developing a stomach ulcer. When he literally crashes into a dog walker and his charges, it’s time to let loose the hounds of change. After failing to land a very important client, Grant takes an afternoon to play.
Max Thompson rolls through life’s curves with easy grace. Dog walking supplements his gigs as a musician, and he’s content with his easy come, easy go existence. He’s fluid to the point of not standing firm for anything, until an eye-opening encounter with an uptight businessman shakes his cool.
As lust stirs, then love grows, Grant begins to reevaluate what it really means to be successful in life. And as Max teaches Grant to chill, he learns some things are worth making an effort to hold on to.
Review: This series of books is a bit of a change for author Bonnie Dee. If you are looking for a historical story, you won’t find it here. Her Love Off Leash series is pure contemporary romance, but it holds the same captivating writing style that makes her historicals so popular. These are character driven short stories, with little to no angst, and full of romance. Chilling with Max is an opposites attract story with a solid HEA.
Grant Edgerton is uptight. He carries a lot of responsibility on his shoulders, both real and imagined. Working for a high stakes real estate developer, Grant has lost the reasoning of why he wanted to put deals together to begin with. At heart he’s a fixer. Grant is someone who sees a problem and immediately wants to try and find a way to make things better. Only thing, sometimes what he is trying to fix, isn’t really broken. Grant’s a good guy, an overworked, underappreciated, mess of a guy. In dog terms, he’s the highly strung pure bred who has too much energy and wants to please everyone.
Max Thompson comes from a large, convoluted mutt of a family. He’s a musician who supplements his income by walking the dogs in an expensive Manhattan apartment building. He’s a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, rolling with life’s punches and never taking anything too seriously.
But both of these guys are a lot more than that, and a chance encounter followed by subsequent points of contact prove that there is a simmering attraction between the two. Bonnie Dee takes us on a journey of self-discovery, almost, with these two men who, when encountering their polar opposite, manage to turn the mirror inward and then meet the other man halfway. This is a pretty lighthearted story for all the introspection. I liked these guys. I enjoyed their story. It’s a well-paced, well written, short story. It is a bit of a slow burn, there is no “sheets on fire” chemistry here, but there is attraction and friendship and a slow roll up of a relationship. This story is almost a comfort that fate will put the person who is just right for you at just the right place at just the right time.
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