Status Updates From Boy Next Door (Hot Off the ...

I can't for the love of God connected with neither of the MCs... frustrating!

Went to get this book only to be told I already own it. I can't be the only one who does this.... often. LOL

Done.

Review to come soon.

"Idiot interventions call for comfort food and tequila. And it's too early for tequila, so bagels it is. And coffee."

"You didn't fight for me."
"I did! At Christmas."
"No, you screamed at me, accused me of getting with Nico for his money and called me a slut. Not once then or since then, did you ever say anything like, 'Come back, 'Chelle. We can fix this.' You didn't even try."

Well, duh. Everything he said was true.

Why oh why am I still reading about Michelle? Go away. Seriously.

Joey blushed. "I..."
"Oh my god. Tell me everything."
"No!" Joey said, holding up a finger. "I can't. This is why Liam doesn't want us being alone together anymore."
"You have to talk to someone about these things, mon beau. Who better than I, your personal gaysexlopedia."

Oh, how I love Alex.

'Should he say it? He'd always loved Joey. He was family. It was a given. But should he tell Joey he was in love with him?'

Okay, so does Paul have a 1976 Corvette Stingray (as mentioned in the Country Boy blurb and throughout that entire book)? Or does he have a 1967 Corvette, as mentioned in Boy Next Door?

Seriously, how does an editor not catch that kind of goof? Hell, how does an editor not catch all the mistakes in these books???

Hmm.... maybe she doesn't have an editor. That would explain a lot.

"What he's trying to say is," Paul translated from his prone position, "that he would like to see some inappropriate player contact between you and Coach O'Reilly."
Robbie's jaw dropped and he punched his boyfriend hard on the upper arm. "Ow! That's my jerking off arm!"
"Ooh, and you're going to need that this week, too. Pity."

Hmm... never mind. The spanking WAS an actual punishment and not meant to be sexy. Geez. A grown man getting spanked and not in a sexy 'hit me harder because it turns me on' kind of way.

I'm not loving Liam. And I think Joey's too good for him.

'"You. Will. Listen." Liam punctuated each word with a hard smack. Part of his brain was screaming at him to stop, but he pushed it aside. His focus narrowed to his hand and Joey's body.'

The spanking is coming across more as an actual punishment than sexy. I'm not feeling it.

"I forgot how big you are, you freak of nature," Joey said to Sergei. At six-foot-eight, Sergei was one of the tallest players in the league; Joey was one of the shortest.

"Should I get you a booster seat, like I get for our babies, so you can see out the window?" the big goalie asked. Sergei and his partner Alex had become instant parents to one-year-old twins the past New Years.

'Joey's stomach clenched with nerves. He hadn't given a guy a blowjob in a long, long time. And that had ended so very badly. What he and Liam had done at Christmas had been different. Joey hadn't done anything. All he had to do was lie there while Liam used his mouth.'

And you shouldn't be doing it now. You should run kicking and screaming the other way. Liam doesn't deserve it.

"Should we skedaddle?" Lorenzo asked when she was gone. "If you don't want to talk to anyone else, we can escape to the bar."
"Nonno. No more drinking, okay?"
Lorenzo shook his head sorrowfully. "Where did I go wrong?"
"I don't know, but maybe one of the grandchildren will become an alcoholic. Let's go sit on the wall."

Nonno's hilarious.

462 pages.

And I thought the others were too long. Geez.

// Also, I’m really disliking Liam!! Joey is insecure so that means you feel the weight of the years between you?!!? What the fuck does age have ANYTHING to do with insecurity?!!? Liam, you’re pissing me off!!!

// Hot fucking lazy can an author get?! The names are all over the place and Joey keeps shooting wide eyes at JOEY!! What on earth is going on here with the editing?!!? I’m not crazy about this author AT ALL, but I’m seriously trying to like this book!! Really REALLY!! And this author is not making it easy to do!!! I better like the others A LOT because this one is going to be a fucking FAIL, I just know it!!!

// I know what the problem is, I don’t like Liam!! His holier-than-thou bullshit is fucking aggravating!!!

// Another thing that’s kind of annoying about this author’s book here is the formatting ... it’s weird!!

Anyway, I’m all for giving this a chance, so let’s see!!

Also, the other books in this series better be fucking wonderful!!!!!!!

// Holy shit, I own several of this author’s books and right now - with this book being the first of hers that I’ve read - I’m finding her writing ridiculously fucking boring!! This better not be how this author normally writes and this book better not be an example of all the others, bc I’ll totally fucking lose my shit! Author, get your act together and get on with it! So much fucking beating around the bush here!

// Things are finally moving in the proper direction!!

// There’s so much going on AROUND the two men that we don’t get a lot of Joey and Liam together!! I want more of them together and I want them to talk and work things through already!!!