Get Trucked

The Men of Bear Springs #2

by B.J. Blakely

The tattooed trucker I meet at my best friend’s engagement party is totally out of my league, but I can’t let him get away without shifting my gears.

I don't have time for relationships.

I just need to focus on work so I can help my Nana move out of public housing.

Or at least that's the plan.

The much-younger man I meet at my best friend’s engagement party doesn't care about my plans.

He takes what he wants and leaves me questioning whether my life choices are as satisfying as I thought.

When an unexpected circumstance thrusts us together, do I have what it takes to sort out what I truly want and make him mine?

****Get Trucked is a high heat 84,000-word opposites attract low angst MM romance with an age gap, plenty of heat and steam, and a HEA between a geeky twenty-year-old waiter and a tattooed hunk. It can be read as a standalone.

Genres: Romance, LGBT, M M Romance

324 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 2021

About the author

Also writes as Archer Rae.

Reviews

[NicoleR.M.M. · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I've been dreading this review a little because I honestly hate to write a negative review, but since this was an ARC provided to me in exchange for an honest review,

I guess I'll just get on with it. (sigh...)

Maybe I should start with something positive?
Or should I end on a positive note?

Ok. The blurb sounded interesting and before I dived into this book, I was truly aware of it being gay erotic. It was mainly curiosity that got me applying for the ARC, plus I came across quite a positive post in an FB group about the first book in these series.
Well...here it goes.
Frankly I was quite disappointed. I kept reminding myself that this was erotica, so maybe that was the reason for a missing plot, but I reached a point where I couldn't just for the sake of the heat and the hot sex keep on telling that to myself. There just was no story other than that the two MC's meet, have dirty sex and end fall into insta-love.
Now, I do hate insta-love. It's just a trope I dislike very much. Sometimes, when the story is well done, I can get past it.
But I couldn't this time.
Both MC's dismiss the opportunity to meet someone they only texted with and whom they feel emotional connected to (without knowing they are each others 'mystery person) in favor of someone they had incredible sex with. Because they truly believe that the latter one is the one they might have their HEA with. Based on sex. They didn't even have a name, didn't know who the other guy was. Just that they, apparently, were sexual very compatible. Uhm...am I the only one who doesn't get that?
At a certain moment, when Lucas and Max are getting it on again, out of the blue, while having hot, dirty sex with the guy he was hooking up with, Lucas thinks of the guy he hasn't met yet, but with whom he has texted and feels an emotional bond with. He doesn't know that Max and that guy are the same person yet, so it doesn't make sense that he thinks about him while having sex with the one he choses above the guy he texts with.
Max is still a virgin, but he sure doesn't act like one most of the time, except for when he doesn't understand the meaning of rimming (?)

Max wants to be treated as an adult. He's twenty years old but apparently people still treat him as a kid. But boy, did he act like one A LOT! He was so immature! Maybe it was his own behavior that caused people to treat him like a child?!

So, with the lack of a plot, with very flat characters, it was hard to feel any sort of connection to them. That didn't happen. I couldn't care less if they found their HEA or if they didn't. I finished the book, but I really had to push myself to get there. Even the sex scenes, (that were hot in the beginning) weren't that interesting anymore. It rarely happens that I skip those!

I'm really sorry, but this book was really not for me. For people who like to read about dirty sex and read those scenes multiple times, this is probably going to be ok for you.

[Elaine Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second book is very interesting and entertaining. There is instant love, May/December, erotic, sexy scenes, and a lot first. Max is young and a virgin and wanted what his friend to have a sexy trucker and love. Luca doesn't believe in love and is helping his granny out. The two didn't know each other names and they kept missing opportunities after their sexy hookups. They started texting and eventually started dating. They had miscommunication and misunderstanding but eventually got their happily ever after.

[Denise Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow. Once I got over the over the top sex scenes with a stranger I really enjoyed the story.
Max a 20 year olds virgin meets Lucas in the bathroom. Instant attraction but then Lucas disappears. Every time they meet they have a sexual encounter. But never exchange names.
Lots of sex ! Age gap. First time
Can be read in its own

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kinky fun

This book is filled with lots of kinky, tongue-in-cheek fun. There's a self-aware humour about it that makes some of the more over the top descriptions just work.

I thought Max and Lucas were sweethearts, apart and together.

The book lagged after the 50% mark, which I think was an issue for me with the previous book too. There just wasn't enough tension created for me to feel excited about reading the last half, so whilst I did finish it, I wished it was shorter.

[Shannon Everyday · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always have a great time reading B.J. Blakely's books, and Get Trucked is no exception.
Lucas doesn't do relationships, and Max is tired of everyone treating him like a kid. Not knowing each other, they hook up for anonymous sex. Lucas is then hired as a delivery rep to the diner where Max works. Not knowing they already know each other, they begin to connect through their texts, and then realize that the guy they were each hooking up with is the one they are texting with.
Get Trucked has insta love, lots of steamy sex with kink, and an adorably sweet couple in Lucas and Max. I love B.J. Blakely's sense of fun, and I just love the dialogue between the characters. The sense of humor and comradeship, especially between the truckers, is always one of my favorite parts.
If you enjoy low angst love stories, with a lot of heat, steam, humor, and strong friendships between men, this is a great series to explore.

[Cara · Rating 4 out of 5]

With a very unique blend of super sweet instalove between likable soulmates and scorching, frequent over the top love scenes, this book caused my feelings to waver as I read it.

I encourage this fledgling author to keep writing; there is some quality, clever writing here that has potential. A good editor is needed though. This book got repetitive and drug on in the later chapters and could have been better if it was 5 chapters shorter and had a better editor catch the wrong words that showed up here and there.

I will give this author the benefit of the doubt and try more of their books. I loved sweet Max.

[Jocelyn Whaley · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. BJ Blakely is a new author to me. the storyline is okay but right off the bat sex with a stranger in the bathroom? I know the warning says all that and I'm not new to LGBTQ sex, stories or relationships. I just wish there was more.

[Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Read!

A lot of fun to read. Loved the characters. Can't wait to see what comes next and the stories for the other guys.

[D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

When sweet meet dirty and kinky, oh boy I never read a book like this before...!

[Cynthia Brooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lucas and Max meet and have sex but don't give names. They can't stop thinking of each other and wonder if they wiil ever see each other again. I enjoyed this book.

[Casey H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read

Super low angst easy read. I'm invested in the characters I just wish the 30yr olds didn't speak like 80 yr old women. Who calls their partner young man?!?!

[Edga · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is another sweet story from this lady, however, it's very similar to the first book in the series. I like both the MCs and the secondary characters, but there's just too much emphasis on the sex, (I never thought I'd say that about a book, but there you go!), to the point that I was skimming over the sex scenes. There is some humour, and, the story was cute, but less sex please.