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Concierge Service
Joshua Hannes, the concierge of the Vivaldi Central Park Hotel prides himself on fulfilling every impossible request. Tickets to a sold-out show? A purple dye job for a purse dog? A last-minute table at a premier hotspot? No problem. But the devastatingly handsome penthouse guest wants what? Self-made billionaire Craig Ridley’s in New York on business, but at the end of the day, he wants to relax with someone interesting. The concierge should be able to supply a friendly face. Just for a little conversation. Dinner and a card game. Not sex with a man he doesn’t know or respect. Craig didn’t expect the concierge to personally volunteer. Nor to be the man Craig hadn’t known he needed. A billion reasons why they shouldn’t be together. A billion and one reasons why they should. A smoldering standalone romance with an HEA.
- GenresM M Romance
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 16, 2018
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P.D. Singer
59 books172 followersP.D. Singer lived in Colorado with her slightly bemused husband, one young adult, and seventy-nine pounds of pets. She was a big believer in research, first-hand if possible, so the reader can be quite certain PD skied down a mountain face-first, had been stepped on by rodeo horses, acquired a potato burn or two, and rethought a novel that included sky-diving.
When not writing, playing her fiddle, or walking the sheddiest member of the family, she could be found with a book in hand.
When not writing, playing her fiddle, or walking the sheddiest member of the family, she could be found with a book in hand.
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September 7, 2019
The only reason why I finished this book is because I think I have an inner masochist and that I bought this book. 😅 But boy oh boy, was this a mess. If this book was KU, I would have returned it and DNFed it since like 20%. 🤦♀️ Messy writing. A lot of grammar errors, need a good editor, the story is a mess (at least for me), a love story in four days which I am all for it but instead of it hit, sexy, fast and exciting and scorching hot with sizzling UST, it drags and drags and drags and drags. 🤷♀️🤦♀️ I just started skimming at 50% and epilogue was still a meh. 😶 Overall, it was a torture to finish this one. I now need a good treat to recover from this. 🙃
2 Eh, meh, eh stars
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2 Eh, meh, eh stars
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October 12, 2018
A Joyfully Jay review.
4.5 stars
Talk about a slow burn! I was intrigued by the blurb for this story and was excited to delve into it. This book is mostly lighthearted, with some dark gray moments that give the story weight. Singer really excels at creating chemistry between Craig and Joshua, and even thought it’s practically the end of the book before anything physical happens between them, the build up is so very worth it.
Joshua is proud of the job he does and takes extreme pride in doing it well. He’s got morals to spare and would never do anything untoward. Or anything that could be construed that way. Which is why he’s willing to walk away from Craig, even though his heart screams at him to stay. I really enjoyed his character and I loved watching him finally reach for what he wanted.
Craig is very down to earth and I loved the juxtaposition between his wealth and the doors it opens, versus his naivete. In truth, it could have been too much, but the author strikes the perfect balance with the character. He uses his money for good, mostly, and he won’t abandon his morals.
Read Kris’ review in its entirety here.
4.5 stars
Talk about a slow burn! I was intrigued by the blurb for this story and was excited to delve into it. This book is mostly lighthearted, with some dark gray moments that give the story weight. Singer really excels at creating chemistry between Craig and Joshua, and even thought it’s practically the end of the book before anything physical happens between them, the build up is so very worth it.
Joshua is proud of the job he does and takes extreme pride in doing it well. He’s got morals to spare and would never do anything untoward. Or anything that could be construed that way. Which is why he’s willing to walk away from Craig, even though his heart screams at him to stay. I really enjoyed his character and I loved watching him finally reach for what he wanted.
Craig is very down to earth and I loved the juxtaposition between his wealth and the doors it opens, versus his naivete. In truth, it could have been too much, but the author strikes the perfect balance with the character. He uses his money for good, mostly, and he won’t abandon his morals.
Read Kris’ review in its entirety here.
August 19, 2022
Rating: 1.5 stars (rounded down)
While this started out being really sweet, the story ended up moving in a direction that I didn't like. The 1.5 stars are purely for Josh, his co-worker Lauren, their lives as hotel concierges in NYC and the beginning stages of Josh and Craig's romance. Unfortunately, I had various small issues that bothered me throughout and I had big problems with Craig's characterization and how the author treated his romance with Josh.
One small issue was the ridiculous instalove. Some people labelled this as a slow burn, but it didn't fit my definition of a slow burn. The entire story takes place over a week and the MCs don't spend a lot of time interacting, which made it absurd when Craig claims after the second day that he's 'fallen in love' with Josh. In contrast, Josh liked Craig but didn't appear to have the same delusions Craig did, which is part of the bigger problem I had (more on that later).
I also disliked how incredibly rude Craig and Josh were towards Craig's co-worker Felicity. The woman was the stereotypical Frigid Bitch character and she wasn't in the story enough to develop beyond that, but I was willing to let that go. Her cold demeanor was off-putting but it was part of her personality and fit her background. Her random suggestion that she and Craig could get married demonstrated how different her and Craig's life priorities were and how little she understood him, but there was no malicious intent behind the offer. In fact, it's clear she offers because she knows how lonely Craig has been and how much he's struggling to fit in with upper class society, where she has grown up. She even apologizes later for having suggested it.
But for some reason, Craig and Josh are very rude and dismissive of her. Josh constantly calls her names in his head, despite knowing nothing about her. During a medical emergency with Craig, Josh shoves her out of the way when she tries getting on the helicopter with him and Craig. As for Craig, he's...
+ constantly dismissing her concerns, like when he got enraged that she came to visit him after his medical situation
+ blowing up at her marriage suggestion, dismissing her apology and acting like Felicity's suggestion had been the most outrageously offensive thing he'd ever heard
+ whenever they're in a room together and Craig decides he's had enough of her (never mind if she's there for work, if she's there because she's worried about him or if Craig invited her), he'll literally drag her to the door, shove her through it and slam the door behind her, maliciously hoping the door will hit her
Their behavior was so over the top and so uncalled for that it left me shocked.
But my biggest problem was Craig. I liked him when he was a naïve, newly wealthy tech guy who wasn't comfortable with the enormous money he'd recently made. He was down to earth and liked hanging out with Josh, eating simple food and playing cards or scrabble. Their interactions were cute and innocent. But then things changed. Suddenly, Craig is very comfortable with his wealth and position in society and he's constantly using those things to manipulate others into doing what he wants and using obscene amounts of money to try to solve every problem they're facing.
When he and Josh were discussing the possibility of doing long distance (Josh staying in New York and Craig living in Denver), Craig immediately suggests buying a private jet, complete with its own crew and various expenses so that Josh could come visit Craig as efficiently as possible. Then he's doing things like casually requesting a special limo service to take him some place that's only a few blocks away and offering Josh limitless shopping sprees. Not to mention the absolutely cringey conversations that Craig had with Bill Gates. Yes, the real Bill Gates. Hilariously, the author seemed to be worried about legal implications or maybe she was uncomfortable with the whole thing because both conversations are written specifically so Gates never has a single line of dialog and she never writes Bill's first name. The whole thing was very weird, unnecessary and made me cringe. You don't need your character to have Bill Gates listed in his phone for you to establish that yes, he's very rich and very important. None of this matched the naïve, down to earth character from the start, which I didn't like.
I especially hated that Craig had zero respect for Josh, and his attitude towards Josh and their future was off-putting and even weird at times. From the start, Josh and Craig are facing lots of barriers in order to be together, including living in two different places and Josh working a regular job while Craig is a billionaire. I was shocked and also disappointed when Craig's solution to these problems is wanting Josh to become his trophy husband. He doesn't care that Josh loves living in New York and loves his job and has no interest in becoming a trophy husband in Denver. All Craig cares about is that he wants Josh and he wants to get him without making sacrifices or changes in his own life. When Josh isn't thrilled with this idea, Craig has the audacity of getting angry at him because Craig has a hard time meeting people and somehow, that means Josh is obligated to become Craig's trophy husband...? It was bizarre.
But what was most disappointing about the entire thing is that these negative aspects of Craig's character and his dynamic with Josh weren't a set up for character development. Conveniently, the story ends with .
Overall, the story felt messy, disjointed and it wasn't very enjoyable as a romance because the author set things up one way and then randomly changed gears.
While this started out being really sweet, the story ended up moving in a direction that I didn't like. The 1.5 stars are purely for Josh, his co-worker Lauren, their lives as hotel concierges in NYC and the beginning stages of Josh and Craig's romance. Unfortunately, I had various small issues that bothered me throughout and I had big problems with Craig's characterization and how the author treated his romance with Josh.
One small issue was the ridiculous instalove. Some people labelled this as a slow burn, but it didn't fit my definition of a slow burn. The entire story takes place over a week and the MCs don't spend a lot of time interacting, which made it absurd when Craig claims after the second day that he's 'fallen in love' with Josh. In contrast, Josh liked Craig but didn't appear to have the same delusions Craig did, which is part of the bigger problem I had (more on that later).
I also disliked how incredibly rude Craig and Josh were towards Craig's co-worker Felicity. The woman was the stereotypical Frigid Bitch character and she wasn't in the story enough to develop beyond that, but I was willing to let that go. Her cold demeanor was off-putting but it was part of her personality and fit her background. Her random suggestion that she and Craig could get married demonstrated how different her and Craig's life priorities were and how little she understood him, but there was no malicious intent behind the offer. In fact, it's clear she offers because she knows how lonely Craig has been and how much he's struggling to fit in with upper class society, where she has grown up. She even apologizes later for having suggested it.
But for some reason, Craig and Josh are very rude and dismissive of her. Josh constantly calls her names in his head, despite knowing nothing about her. During a medical emergency with Craig, Josh shoves her out of the way when she tries getting on the helicopter with him and Craig. As for Craig, he's...
+ constantly dismissing her concerns, like when he got enraged that she came to visit him after his medical situation
+ blowing up at her marriage suggestion, dismissing her apology and acting like Felicity's suggestion had been the most outrageously offensive thing he'd ever heard
+ whenever they're in a room together and Craig decides he's had enough of her (never mind if she's there for work, if she's there because she's worried about him or if Craig invited her), he'll literally drag her to the door, shove her through it and slam the door behind her, maliciously hoping the door will hit her
Their behavior was so over the top and so uncalled for that it left me shocked.
But my biggest problem was Craig. I liked him when he was a naïve, newly wealthy tech guy who wasn't comfortable with the enormous money he'd recently made. He was down to earth and liked hanging out with Josh, eating simple food and playing cards or scrabble. Their interactions were cute and innocent. But then things changed. Suddenly, Craig is very comfortable with his wealth and position in society and he's constantly using those things to manipulate others into doing what he wants and using obscene amounts of money to try to solve every problem they're facing.
When he and Josh were discussing the possibility of doing long distance (Josh staying in New York and Craig living in Denver), Craig immediately suggests buying a private jet, complete with its own crew and various expenses so that Josh could come visit Craig as efficiently as possible. Then he's doing things like casually requesting a special limo service to take him some place that's only a few blocks away and offering Josh limitless shopping sprees. Not to mention the absolutely cringey conversations that Craig had with Bill Gates. Yes, the real Bill Gates. Hilariously, the author seemed to be worried about legal implications or maybe she was uncomfortable with the whole thing because both conversations are written specifically so Gates never has a single line of dialog and she never writes Bill's first name. The whole thing was very weird, unnecessary and made me cringe. You don't need your character to have Bill Gates listed in his phone for you to establish that yes, he's very rich and very important. None of this matched the naïve, down to earth character from the start, which I didn't like.
I especially hated that Craig had zero respect for Josh, and his attitude towards Josh and their future was off-putting and even weird at times. From the start, Josh and Craig are facing lots of barriers in order to be together, including living in two different places and Josh working a regular job while Craig is a billionaire. I was shocked and also disappointed when Craig's solution to these problems is wanting Josh to become his trophy husband. He doesn't care that Josh loves living in New York and loves his job and has no interest in becoming a trophy husband in Denver. All Craig cares about is that he wants Josh and he wants to get him without making sacrifices or changes in his own life. When Josh isn't thrilled with this idea, Craig has the audacity of getting angry at him because Craig has a hard time meeting people and somehow, that means Josh is obligated to become Craig's trophy husband...? It was bizarre.
But what was most disappointing about the entire thing is that these negative aspects of Craig's character and his dynamic with Josh weren't a set up for character development. Conveniently, the story ends with .
Overall, the story felt messy, disjointed and it wasn't very enjoyable as a romance because the author set things up one way and then randomly changed gears.
September 19, 2018
♥.•🌟¨)☆♡¸.•🌟´¨)☆♡
♡🌟(¸.•♥´🌟Serving up 4 star goodness!
Anything you can think of, concierge can get. From fluffing towels, making bed animals to dyeing a dog to match your outfit, Joshua was the man to do it. He had hidden talents that wowed many. And what he didn't have, he had the means to get it.
When a wealthy client was about to be put out for double booking, Joshua stepped up to the plate, made it happen.Before the guest could step foot in the hotel, he had the best suite available, towel animals on his beds and kosher dinner from one of the finest restaurant.
So it was only natural on meeting said man that Josh had visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. And when the very down to earth Craig required something so outrageous....a rent a friend... Josh knew no one fit that bill more than he did.
In a book that could have gone so wrong, P.D.Singer made it so right. I am talking so slow a burn even I was not expecting the last few chapters to turn out the way it did. With acknowledged friendship, a billionaire who had to much on his plate, a concierge who knew what he was doing was wrong and a job on the line, how would these two men ever make it right? The only way to know more is to one click and find out.
I voluntarily and honestly reviewed this book without bias or persuasion from the author through IndiGo Marketing & Design.
♡🌟(¸.•♥´🌟Serving up 4 star goodness!
Anything you can think of, concierge can get. From fluffing towels, making bed animals to dyeing a dog to match your outfit, Joshua was the man to do it. He had hidden talents that wowed many. And what he didn't have, he had the means to get it.
When a wealthy client was about to be put out for double booking, Joshua stepped up to the plate, made it happen.Before the guest could step foot in the hotel, he had the best suite available, towel animals on his beds and kosher dinner from one of the finest restaurant.
So it was only natural on meeting said man that Josh had visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. And when the very down to earth Craig required something so outrageous....a rent a friend... Josh knew no one fit that bill more than he did.
In a book that could have gone so wrong, P.D.Singer made it so right. I am talking so slow a burn even I was not expecting the last few chapters to turn out the way it did. With acknowledged friendship, a billionaire who had to much on his plate, a concierge who knew what he was doing was wrong and a job on the line, how would these two men ever make it right? The only way to know more is to one click and find out.
I voluntarily and honestly reviewed this book without bias or persuasion from the author through IndiGo Marketing & Design.
October 5, 2018
This book was provided by the author via IndiGo Marketing & Design in exchange for an honest review.
Concierge Service has an interesting premise. Joshua is a concierge at Vivaldi Central Park, a five-star hotel in New York City. He prides himself on doing what he can for the hotel guests, with no task too strange or too small. When Craig, a new guest, asks for a friend because he is lonely on his first night in the hotel, Joshua decides to play that role. And when this “rent-a-friend” goes on for a few days longer, both realize that despite their different situations, they have truly become friends, and possibly more.
Though I did like the story overall, I felt like there was a spark missing in the relationship between Joshua and Craig. Also, there was a cinder-fella aspect to the story that just didn't work for me. However, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a low-angst sweet romance that begins in an unconventional way.
Concierge Service has an interesting premise. Joshua is a concierge at Vivaldi Central Park, a five-star hotel in New York City. He prides himself on doing what he can for the hotel guests, with no task too strange or too small. When Craig, a new guest, asks for a friend because he is lonely on his first night in the hotel, Joshua decides to play that role. And when this “rent-a-friend” goes on for a few days longer, both realize that despite their different situations, they have truly become friends, and possibly more.
Though I did like the story overall, I felt like there was a spark missing in the relationship between Joshua and Craig. Also, there was a cinder-fella aspect to the story that just didn't work for me. However, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a low-angst sweet romance that begins in an unconventional way.
October 16, 2018
Fun story! Joshua is a concierge at a fancy hotel. He is really good at his job, and prides himself on doing whatever he can (legally, of course) for his customers. Craig is staying at the hotel and requests company one night when he can't sleep. Just for hanging out and playing games, nothing inappropriate. Joshua and Craig hang out for a few hours and really find they enjoy the company of the other. They get together a few more times while Craig is in town for his week, but they keep it friendly. There is definite attraction between them, and Craig realizes he wants so much more, but he lives in Denver and Joshua is in NY. As it usually happens in the romance world, all works out beautifully, and we get a wonderful HEA for these two. There were a couple of times where I had to roll my eyes and hit the "I believe" button, but that's probably because I am nowhere near as rich as Craig, so I can't make everything happen so dang perfectly like he did. lol
Overall, this was a good story and I enjoyed it.
I am voluntarily reviewing an ARC provided by IndiGo Marketing & Design
Overall, this was a good story and I enjoyed it.
I am voluntarily reviewing an ARC provided by IndiGo Marketing & Design
September 22, 2018
How far should a concierge go to fulfill a hotel guest's request? Joshua was a top-notch concierge at a swanky New York hotel, who could provide just about anything a guest requested within the legal spectrum. One very important guest, Craig, an entrepreneur and self-made billionaire, made the unusual request that the hotel send him a friend to talk to and play scrabble or cards with. He was a rich man surrounded by people who wanted him for his money, but he didn't have a real friend. So he made a never before heard of 'rent-a-friend' request. And Joshua volunteered to fulfill the request. But did Joshua go too far in performing the service himself? An innocent endeavor could put his career on the line if it's misunderstood by the other hotel employees. Craig and Joshua were both very likeable characters, down to earth, and not impressed by huge amounts of money. An interesting story about the business of hospitality and service.
October 17, 2018
Concept for this book was great, a concierge at a very upscale hotel in New York who can get almost anything a guest requests. A billionaire requests a friend to chat and play scrabble with one lonely night and these two meet and sparks fly. Nothing steamy happens, but the writing is on the wall (in fact, nothing steamy really happens until almost the very end and then pages of it).
We get to have a classic Rolls Royce as the hotel's valet car, a telephone conversation with Bill of Seattle (obviously with the last name of Gates) over some staffing issues at this hotel owned by the MS guru, and I now know the meaning of "extra pillows" (complete with gender and color) when it is a request by a guest directly to the concierge. So I learned quite a bit about the hotel business but the romance kind of left me flat. So, a middle of the road rating.
We get to have a classic Rolls Royce as the hotel's valet car, a telephone conversation with Bill of Seattle (obviously with the last name of Gates) over some staffing issues at this hotel owned by the MS guru, and I now know the meaning of "extra pillows" (complete with gender and color) when it is a request by a guest directly to the concierge. So I learned quite a bit about the hotel business but the romance kind of left me flat. So, a middle of the road rating.
July 29, 2019
This story was very sweet but the relationship moved a little too fast for my liking. It was an enjoyable read though.
March 13, 2020
I didn’t really like Craig.
October 9, 2024
I really enjoyed this book, I was disappointed to see some negative reviews but everyone has different likes
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