Title: Bishop Ridge
Series: Sawyer's Ferry Book 2
Genre: Contemporary m/m romance
Length: 52,000 words
Release date: November 16th, 2018
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Blurb:
They found exactly what they weren’t looking for.
Logan:
I had almost everything I’d ever wanted—career, friends, my own easy life in Sawyer’s Ferry, Alaska. I’d given up on filling in the missing pieces long ago. Now, I was more than satisfied with the perfectly practiced, perfectly predictable routine I’d created for myself. At least until Jackson Daly walked into my clinic.
Jackson:
Working the rigs is temporary. Everything in my life is. Jobs, cities, and the guys I take home—nothing sticks, and that’s exactly the way I like it. After four years in Alaska, I’m itching to pick up and leave. I’m ready to move on and start over someplace new, until a one-night stand I can’t seem to shake has me breaking all my own rules.
Now as I get closer to walking away, my reasons for leaving seem blurrier than ever, and for the first time in my life, there could be something worth staying for.
I really liked Logan when I met him in book one of the Sawyer’s Ferry series, Alaska, so I was excited to see he was going to get his own story. While I enjoyed the story and Logan and Jackson had amazing chemistry and were deliciously hot together, truthfully, I just didn’t care for Jackson. The whole ‘I’m in love with you, but this can’t be anything other than a hook-up”, well, frankly, it was a bit exhausting. Also, I’m a huge grand gesture kind of girl, but the right person has to make it and for me, that didn’t happen here.
Still, this was an enjoyable read, and I loved coming back to Sawyer’s Ferry and catching up with some of its residents, especially Gage and Holden. I’m really loving this little town and I’m looking forward to seeing whose story will be next. Frankie? Witt? Hmm.. maybe Frankie and Witt? While I definitely loved book one more, this is definitely still a recommendable read!
Decent book, and as it ended, I found myself hoping there would be more of these guys in a future tale.
This is book 2 in the Sawyer's Ferry series, but it's not necessary to read the first to enjoy this one - the leads of book 1 pop up a fair bit in this tale set in a small town in Alaska, and it's easy to piece things together.
The leads in this - Logan, a doctor and a native Alaskan, and Jackson, a worker and a drifter who's taken a long-term construction contract that's coming to its end - are a bit chalk and cheese. They meet by fluke, agreeing to hook up with no strings attached and a strict understanding that Jackson will soon be moving on, and that this here-and-now is all they can ever have.
It is a tale with hooking up at its core, i.e., the reason for which the guys get together, which I don't normally love, but in the setting, it totally worked. It worked because for both, hooking up was justification enough to see the other again, conveniently removing the need to acknowledge why else they might be thinking about each other. I liked that both thought a lot about the other when they were apart, and that they formed a friendship over text, due to distance, their jobs and schedules.
The tale wasn't just about them but touched on life in a small town, showing how the inhabitants interact and look out for each other; we got a slice of life in a bubble of sorts - it's kind of hard to believe that Alaska is part of the US - which was interesting, sweet and heartwarming. The couple from book 1 also feature a lot, being friends and coworkers of Logan's, and there's an introduction to Jackson's friends, and tbh, one called Witt, a shy, sweet guy, with enough being hinted at to suggest a difficult life so far, caught my attention as much as the leads. I found myself wishing he'd get a tale of his own (especially after the scene with a damsel in distress). Maybe that'll happen, because for a remote town in Alaska, there seems to be no end of gay guys, and if so, I hope to see these leads again.
As the tale ended, Jackson's plans had been completely upended in the name of love, and yes, I did believe it was love, but for me, that lacked a little realism and seemed a little too idealistic. I got that the guys had real and deep feelings for each other, and that Jackson had been wary because of his past, but everything seemed to happen quickly and then the tale ended without things being a little more tied up, in my book at least. I do think they'll make it, but I think they'll have practical issues to face that might tax their relationship, issues that they're not likely to be in control of. I'd like to see how they end up, and I suspect I will, because I went nosing and there are at least 5 books planned in the series and I'm looking forward to more.
ARC courtesy of the author and Bayou Book Junkie, for my reading pleasure.
Blurb:
They found exactly what they weren’t looking for.
Logan:
I had almost everything I’d ever wanted—career, friends, my own easy life in Sawyer’s Ferry, Alaska. I’d given up on filling in the missing pieces long ago. Now, I was more than satisfied with the perfectly practiced, perfectly predictable routine I’d created for myself. At least until Jackson Daly walked into my clinic.
Jackson:
Working the rigs is temporary. Everything in my life is. Jobs, cities, and the guys I take home—nothing sticks, and that’s exactly the way I like it. After four years in Alaska, I’m itching to pick up and leave. I’m ready to move on and start over someplace new, until a one-night stand I can’t seem to shake has me breaking all my own rules.
Now as I get closer to walking away, my reasons for leaving seem blurrier than ever, and for the first time in my life, there could be something worth staying for.
4 Stars
I really liked Logan when I met him in book one of the Sawyer’s Ferry series, Alaska, so I was excited to see he was going to get his own story. While I enjoyed the story and Logan and Jackson had amazing chemistry and were deliciously hot together, truthfully, I just didn’t care for Jackson. The whole ‘I’m in love with you, but this can’t be anything other than a hook-up”, well, frankly, it was a bit exhausting. Also, I’m a huge grand gesture kind of girl, but the right person has to make it and for me, that didn’t happen here.
Still, this was an enjoyable read, and I loved coming back to Sawyer’s Ferry and catching up with some of its residents, especially Gage and Holden. I’m really loving this little town and I’m looking forward to seeing whose story will be next. Frankie? Witt? Hmm.. maybe Frankie and Witt? While I definitely loved book one more, this is definitely still a recommendable read!
*copy provided by author/publisher in exchange for an honest review*
3.5 Stars!
Decent book, and as it ended, I found myself hoping there would be more of these guys in a future tale.
This is book 2 in the Sawyer's Ferry series, but it's not necessary to read the first to enjoy this one - the leads of book 1 pop up a fair bit in this tale set in a small town in Alaska, and it's easy to piece things together.
The leads in this - Logan, a doctor and a native Alaskan, and Jackson, a worker and a drifter who's taken a long-term construction contract that's coming to its end - are a bit chalk and cheese. They meet by fluke, agreeing to hook up with no strings attached and a strict understanding that Jackson will soon be moving on, and that this here-and-now is all they can ever have.
It is a tale with hooking up at its core, i.e., the reason for which the guys get together, which I don't normally love, but in the setting, it totally worked. It worked because for both, hooking up was justification enough to see the other again, conveniently removing the need to acknowledge why else they might be thinking about each other. I liked that both thought a lot about the other when they were apart, and that they formed a friendship over text, due to distance, their jobs and schedules.
The tale wasn't just about them but touched on life in a small town, showing how the inhabitants interact and look out for each other; we got a slice of life in a bubble of sorts - it's kind of hard to believe that Alaska is part of the US - which was interesting, sweet and heartwarming. The couple from book 1 also feature a lot, being friends and coworkers of Logan's, and there's an introduction to Jackson's friends, and tbh, one called Witt, a shy, sweet guy, with enough being hinted at to suggest a difficult life so far, caught my attention as much as the leads. I found myself wishing he'd get a tale of his own (especially after the scene with a damsel in distress). Maybe that'll happen, because for a remote town in Alaska, there seems to be no end of gay guys, and if so, I hope to see these leads again.
As the tale ended, Jackson's plans had been completely upended in the name of love, and yes, I did believe it was love, but for me, that lacked a little realism and seemed a little too idealistic. I got that the guys had real and deep feelings for each other, and that Jackson had been wary because of his past, but everything seemed to happen quickly and then the tale ended without things being a little more tied up, in my book at least. I do think they'll make it, but I think they'll have practical issues to face that might tax their relationship, issues that they're not likely to be in control of. I'd like to see how they end up, and I suspect I will, because I went nosing and there are at least 5 books planned in the series and I'm looking forward to more.
ARC courtesy of the author and Bayou Book Junkie, for my reading pleasure.
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