Bayou Book Junkie: Release Blitz: The Heights by Amy Aislin (Review+Teasers+Giveaway)

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Release Blitz: The Heights by Amy Aislin (Review+Teasers+Giveaway)

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The Heights by Amy Aislin

Series: Lakeshore #1

Publisher: self-published

Release Date (Print & Ebook): September 20, 2018

Length (Print & Ebook): approx. 75,000 words, or 320 pages

Subgenre: m/m contemporary romance

Reader warnings: one of the main characters suffers from panic attacks

Cover artist: Stacey Blake @ Champagne Book Design

Order here:

Amazon (this is the universal Amazon link): http://geni.us/TheHeights

iBooks (universal iTunes link): http://geni.us/TheHeightsApple

Kobo: http://bit.ly/TheHeightsKobo

B&N: http://bit.ly/TheHeightsBN

Book blurb:

Twenty-one years ago, a four-year old child was kidnapped from his front yard. He was never found. Until now.

All Nat Walker wants is to make his late father’s dream of running a father/son woodworking shop come true. And he had the perfect building in mind—until the new guy in town came in and bought the place right out from under him. The fact that the new guy is adorable means nothing. For all Nat cares, he can take his new dance studio and waltz back to New York City.

Professional dancer Quinn Carroll couldn’t be happier that he made the move to the small town of Lakeshore, Oregon. Sure, it’s not New York, but now he’ll be living closer to his adoptive brother. And since his studio will be the only one in the area, he should get enough business to keep him busy. Besides, there’s something about this place that seems familiar...

He doesn’t expect to fall hard for the local, grumpy woodworker who won’t even smile at him.

Or find out that his entire life is a lie.

Brief Teasers:

Quinn didn’t particularly give a shit about good idea versus bad. Only that this was happening, it was happening now, and the only way he’d put a stop to it was if a bomb went off.

And maybe not even then.

Pity fuck or not, he was all in.

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Turned out he may not need that wet, rainy day fantasy after all. Because here Nat stood. In his kitchen. Shirtless.

Shirtless. In his kitchen.

No matter which way he put it, Nat was still shirtless.

In his kitchen.

Why that last part was important, Quinn didn’t know. Likely because his brain had shorted out and he no longer had any higher reasoning.

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“Fuck, you’re ripped,” Quinn blurted, as though he’d never seen Nat naked before. Damn, his brain was dead.

Nat chuckled. “Thanks.” Was his voice huskier than usual? “I work out.”

And of course, that stupid LMFAO song popped into his head.

Yeah. Nat was sexy, and he knew it.

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Quinn was rock solid in his jeans. Not only because of Nat’s nakedness, but also because Nat’s confidence in his own skin was hot as hell. He didn’t bother hiding the fact that he was staring. Shamelessly.

Jesus.

Had someone sucked the air out of the cabin?

Teaser:

“You’re not choking to death, are you?”

Nat’s eyebrows pulled together and he pushed away his empty bowl. “Do I look like I’m choking to death?”

“Kind of.” Quinn placed the last of his ice cream on his cookie and finished it off. “Also, do you know that you have a habit of answering a question with a question?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Yes, you do.”

From the top of the jungle gym, Jeremy waved at them frantically. “Hi, Uncle Nat!”

Nat smiled, dimples in full view, and waved back.

Quinn melted. God, that smile was killer. Soft and sincere and full of love for this little person who wasn’t even his own. It was the first time Quinn had seen it. One day he’d get Nat to smile at him that way.

3.5-4 Stars

The blurb for this book is what pulled me in Initially. The storyline just sounded so intriguing and the plot ended up being laid out well over the full course of the book. I am assuming that since there was somewhat of a cliffy ending, and it was the first book of the series, that we will get more to the full storyline as time goes on.

Once I started reading it though, I personally had little bit of a hard time following the story and characters. There were so many people and names introduced right off the bat it was a little confusing until I learned more of their stories and background. It was really only because there was so much going on, and a lot of storyline development in a short amount of time. I would also really like to have seen more of a romance between the two initial main characters, the connection between the two seemed strong but it wasn’t really shown as much as I personally would have liked. Oh, and there were a lot of unanswered questions about where Quinn disappeared to and who took him and how that all went down. And what’s up with the bio parents, what part did they play in the kidnapping/disappearance? The book was interesting enough that I would like to see where it leads us into the next book of the series, I can’t just let the story finish off here without knowing and learning more.

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

About Amy Aislin:

Amy started writing on a rainy day in fourth grade when her class was forced to stay inside for recess. Tales of adventures with her classmates quickly morphed into tales of adventures with the characters in her head. Based in the suburbs of Toronto, Amy is a marketer/fundraiser at a large environmental non-profit in Toronto by day, and a writer by night. Book enthusiast, animal lover and (very) amateur photographer, her interests are many and varied, including travelling, astronomy, ecology, and baking. She binge watches too much anime, and loves musical theater, Julie Andrews, the Backstreet Boys, and her hometown of Oakville, Ontario.

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