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Men of Hidden Creek

De: A. E. Wasp

Narrado por: Chris Chambers

Home is where you make it.

Beau Hopper is good at good-byes. A minor-league hockey player, he goes where the league tells him. Single and estranged from his family, Beau drifts without connections or commitments. He makes a living, not a life.

Former Marine Connor Casey's life revolves around his siblings. After Hurricane Harvey took their home and a car crash claimed their parents, Connor is determined to rebuild their house and their lives.

When Beau learns Connor might lose custody of his siblings if he can't finish the rebuild in time, he volunteers to help in exchange for a place to stay, and it isn't long before he finds himself in Connor's bed.

It takes more than passion and plywood to build a home, so when the league comes calling after Beau, Connor can't ask him to stay...but how can he ever let him go?

Contains mature themes.

©2018 A. E. Wasp (P)2018 Tantor

Loved it

Story= 5 stars. There is a real storyline here. Amazing chemistry between really well developed characters.
Narration= 5 stars. First time listening to Chris Chambers.. I am very impressed.
Overall = 5 stars. This story is heartwarming, I teared up a few times, it was laugh out loud funny, and there was some sizzling delicious hot and sexy times.


Charo

Unexpected!

Don't let the cover fool you!! this is very an emotional story. The narration was excellent.

Perfect Romance Formula

Thus, by far, is one of my favorite romances ❤️
I've found my perfect romance formula.
MCs meet instantly and grow into a sweet romance. The meat of the story is their grow TOGETHER. There's only one or two short chapters of angst and thethen HEA with a nice size epilog.
Yeah, one dang good romance ❤️

Cute single dad romance

There was a lot I really liked here. There was a ton of on page interaction with all of the kids — really cute interactions, tense-but-necessary-for-growth interactions, one on one interactions, sibling fights and antics…really a whole range. Loved that.

I also like both MCs a lot. I thought they were good characters, had good character growth, and I liked their relationship.

Things I didn’t love:
- a very detailed PTSD scene involving a shotgun that brought the entire book down a whole star for me.
- no cw in the audiobook, which made the first point a surprise. I realize I could have come look at storygraph but I rarely expect it to be an issue (for me personally) when I’m reading light and fluffy contemporary romance
- several mentions of Harry Potter. It was punished in 2018, and I’ve lost track of when exactly that situation… became what it is, but it’s always jarring to hear HP mentioned in queer books and makes me question the author's allyship.
- 100% a personal issue that I knew going in, but I don’t love military backgrounds for MCs and the military part is definitely a significant part of the character and story. Conner left the marines within the last year, he actively talks about it, one of the kids is very interested in his time in the marines, and he thinks about the traumatic stuff he saw/did abroad. I set it aside and ignored it for my rating but did want to mention in case someone else is in a similar situation and debating picking this up.

Outstanding

This was such a good story. It had everything you could want. I also sobbed at the departure of one of the characters. The kids were great too. One of the best I’ve listened to.

You won’t be disappointed

This is a great heartwarming story. Connor and Bo are good people. The kids are adorable. The story caused me a range of emotions from funny to sad and all in between. I only listed to the audio book but now i will read the kindle version. Hope to see a part 2, with Sean’s story.

Solid story

New to me author. I liked it, mostly. Liked their brick wall method of dealing with frustration. There is not a substantial amount of hockey. (I was ok with the amount of hockey, but if hockey’s why you want to read it, scale back expectations of rink time.)

Steam: Med-low, mostly k i s s i n g (near a tree) but some M/M action does happen, happily.

Narration: It’s decent if you overlook the audible inhales throughout. The narrator, going the opposite way of the valley girl intonation arcs pretty much every sentence to end heavily with the exact same down tone. This doesn’t allow one to follow paragraphs as it sounds like each sentence stands alone. Toward the end, the phrasing lightens up some and sounds more fluid. It’s not that bad but it did make it harder for me to get into the story. He does appropriate accents when needed and accounts for things like characters yawning during a line.

So cute...

This is the cutest book I've had the pleasure of listening to in a while. The book was represented well by the narrator and the narrator gave a great performance that worked well with the book.

I will be revisiting this book again and again. Well worth the time.

love it

it's funny and sweet at the same time. I like how both men are macho. wow. love the kids.

Loved the whole story

This book had it all love, steamy sex, laughter, crying it hit every emotion for me. Excellent book