Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Review Tour ~ A Good Neighbour by Clare London (Review + Giveaway)



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Length: 18,825 


Cover: Tibbs Design


Blurb


A London Lads Story


A secret affair can’t go on forever.

Dylan Philips admits it himself: he’s a relentlessly single man in a small suburban town, both proud of and resigned to being a good teacher and a devoted nephew to his mischievous great-aunts.

When the aunts take a hand in matchmaking him with Josie Whitman, the girl who lives along the street, Dylan doesn’t tell them what kind of soul mate he’s really looking for—and the fact that he’s already found the man in question. It’s not Josie who’s travelling from London every month to her town property, but her journalist brother Neal. And Dylan meets up with Neal whenever he can.

But decisions must be made for their future. Dylan is risk-averse to everything from overseas travel to coming out, whereas Neal embraces adventure—and now he wants to take Dylan with him.

Horrified that his chance at love will move even further out of his reach, Dylan realises it’s time for him to own up to what kind of man he really is. He needs to find courage and compromise. And who knows whether the great-aunts will be a help or a hindrance with that?

First Edition published as A Good Neighbor by Amber Quill Press/Amber Allure, 2009.





3 Stars

I wanted to like this book at least as much as I liked the first two books in the series, however, it kind of fell short for me.

The premise was good, but the execution and the main characters lacked a certain something. I didn’t quite feel the chemistry between Dylan and Neal, it felt more like they’d fallen together by circumstance and not love and that Dylan was more like an afterthought for Neal, at least until the last part. Perhaps if we’d had a bit more of their background instead of being thrown into a (somewhat) established relationship, it would’ve worked better for me.

Dylan’s aunts and their matchmaking schemes arc was hilarious, though, so there’s that.

The book is well-written and it has some fun moments, so overall, while I didn’t quite enjoy the book, there’s a chance others might.

*** Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure, a review wasn’t a requirement. ***




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Author Bio

Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.
Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.
All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!

Website: http://www.clarelondon.com
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