Release Blitz: Orderly Affair by DJ Jamison (Review, Excerpt + Giveaway)

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Length: 75,000 words approx.

Hearts & Health Series

Volume 1 (incorporating books 1-3)

Room For Recovery (Book #4)

Surprise Delivery (Book #5)

Blurb

A hospital orderly explores his bisexuality with an adorably geeky lab tech, but can their sparks lead to love outside the closet?

When Ian Connolly installs a hookup app to explore his long-suppressed attraction to men, he doesn't expect to connect with anyone he knows, especially not lab tech Callum Price. But from their first scorching encounter, he's hooked.

Callum hasn't had the best luck with love, and he's suffocating under a pile of responsibilities. But when he sees an opportunity to blow off steam with Ian, he takes it. The man is smoking hot, big all over, and sweet as pie.

Their chemistry is off the charts, but a relationship is more challenging. Callum remains stubbornly self-reliant, while Ian tries too hard to be his rock. But if Ian can be honest with his family about loving a man, maybe Callum can admit his own truth: He wants a man he can count on, a man just like Ian.

Here’s an excerpt of an app hookup that serves as the catalyst for Ian and Callum’s relationship. Enjoy!

Excerpt

Callum Price swallowed hard, staring at Ian Connolly’s massive … everything.

The orderly was six-foot-four, compared with Callum’s modest five-foot-eight height. Broad and muscled, Ian could toss Callum across the room with very little effort. That sent a thrill of fear through his body and a frisson of excitement straight to his cock.

You are one screwed up puppy.

Callum knew the guy from the app might be someone he knew, but he never would have guessed him to be Ian “straight guy” Connolly.

He licked his lips and raked his eyes over Ian’s chest and stomach, too obscured by the loose scrub top to hint at the goodies beneath. “I didn’t know you were ...”

“Me either,” Ian said. Then coughed with embarrassment. “I mean, I’m bi and just now exploring my ... curiosity.”

“Bi or bi-curious? They’re not the same.”

“Are we really going to have a serious talk about sexuality in the john?”

Ian had a point. Callum’s pulse raced, sending all his blood south and muddying his thoughts, as he stared at BigBiGuy. Ian. He knew the hospital orderly only through a loosely organized group of hospital staffers who played basketball every now and then. They nodded and smiled hello in the halls, but their paths didn’t cross all that much.

Yet, here they were.

Callum had noticed Ian was a big guy; it would have been impossible to miss. But he’d filed him into the unavailable category with all the other straight men, and as a result, hadn’t fully appreciated the man’s body.

He wasn’t about to miss an opportunity to correct that mistake.

“Take off your shirt.”

4 Stars!

Orderly Affair is book 6 in the Hearts and Health series and while it can be read as a standalone, several of the characters from the previous installments are featured/mentioned in this one and truly, the series is really good and you'll be missing out if you don't read it.

I loved Ian, he was such a sweet, caring man. Yes, he was closeted for a part of the book and 38 is a bit late to be exploring his bisexuality for the first time, but it was nice that it was because he wouldn't cheat on his wife while they were still married, even if he'd been attracted to men before. I liked Callum, but there were several times in which I just wanted to shake him and ask him what was wrong with him. He was a doormat with his mother and his ex, Doug, who still lived at his house and mooched off of him. But whenever Ian tried to help Callum out, he would jump and treat him like dirt. Truly, I was so disappointed by Callum's behavior after the 'salting incident' and how easily Ian forgave him, when Cal finally realized he'd blown things out of proportion. Anyway, despite this, I have to admit Callum and Ian had a lot of chemistry and they were hot together. Do I believe Callum deserved Ian? No, but they finally seemed to make things work in the end.

I really liked Ian's son Liam, his ex Michele, his brother Sean and his mom, who were all a great support system for Ian. I didn't care for Ian's older brother, Callum's mother or Doug, especially after what happened with Doug's hookup.

Overall, while Orderly Affair wasn't my favorite, it was a good, entertaining addition to the series. It was fast-paced, engaging and hot and of course, it didn't hurt that we got to catch up with Gage. Recommendable!

*** Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie, a review wasn't a requirement. ***

DJ Jamison is the author of more than a dozen m/m romances, including the Ashe Sentinel series and the Hearts and Health series. She writes a variety of queer characters, from gay to bisexual to asexual, with a focus on telling love stories that are more about common ground than lust at first sight. DJ grew up in the Midwest in a working-class family, and those influences can be found in her writing through characters coping with real-life problems: money troubles, workplace drama, family conflicts and, of course, falling in love. DJ spent more than a decade in the newspaper industry before chasing her first dream to write fiction. She spent a lifetime reading before that, and continues to avidly devour her fellow authors' books each night. She lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, two fish and, regrettably, one snake.

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