RJ Scott

Logan, star of a TV-series has a stalker who sends him weird gifts and death threats. Adam is hired to protect him during his stay in GB for a convention. Even though Logan is in the closet, the two hit it of, and caution is thrown in the wind pretty fast.

This is an entirely mediocre book.
The trope is nothing new, and there's not really any spin on it, to make it more interesting.

The characters felt pretty flat to me and I couldn't really relate to any of it. The whole romance moves pretty very fast at parts, just to be put on hold for big parts of the book. It's not exactly insta-love, but very nearly. The MCs didn't really talk a lot, about anything. And for an actor Logan was really incoherent a lot of the time.
It didn't have any finesse in it either, no real heart. It felt like romance by numbers, writing the right things, but without the oomph to transport the feeling. The romance actually left me pretty confused most of the time. I just didn't get it, and I was just not invested in any of it.

The plot itself wasn't even all that bad, even though they are kinda dissing the fan fiction writer and the fans a bit.

Derek, CEO of a big ad agency, needs a fake boyfriend to show to his parents and company Christmas party, since he made up this heroic firefighter called Marcus. Luke was an actual firefighter, but got injured on duty. To help pay for the renovations of his families bar he takes the job of playing Derek's boyfriend for a few dates.

Ok, so, I'm clearly missing something. I pretty much do not get the first half. I don't get what Derek's problem is. At all. Not even after the whole book. I did not get why he needed a fake-boyfriend, I did not get why he acted the way he did. His parents seemed perfectly friendly, as did his friends and his employees where a bit stuck up, but he also never seemed to really just put down the law. I did not get what Luke saw in him, because Derek was really acting very weird, distant and sometimes pretty assholey. And then suddenly they where kissing and where attracted to each other and it came out left field for me.
Like an equation that was wrong on any level but lead to the correct answer, I could work with the rest of the book, ignoring the fact that none of it had made sense before, but I did not get emotionally invested, even then. I was just too confused about the book to really try and get into it so late in the game.

I kinda liked Luke, he's open and nice, Derek was pretty much an unknown variable, though he starts to seem like an actual person around the end of the book. Both seemed a bit flat to me, though. There were some backstory, but they never really felt fully fleshed out.
I also had no idea what they see in each other. Well, Luke is essentially Derek's wet dream come true, and the book doesn't really seem to be able to concretely supply any more reason for the attraction than that, and I don't have any clue why Luke would like Derek.

In the end, all is magically resolved by the last date, the parents don't make a fuss about the change in name, the company people don't notice much of it and all is perfect. The plot is essentially a hot mess. It certainly has some cute scenes, but it felt more like some fanfiction than a professional book to me.

Eigentlich heule ich selten bei Büchern. Bei dieser hatte ich jedoch eine Träne im Auge. Es ging mir wahnsinnig nahe wie schlimm es dem armen Zach ergangen ist. Auch das er zunächst Ben gegenüber misstrauisch, ja fast abweisend gegenüber ist, passte einfach zu seiner Geschichte. Ich konnte in den ersten Seiten so richtig mit ihm mitfühlen, ihn verstehen und fand Ben als Polizisten, der sich seiner angenommen hat, richtig sympathisch.

Süß war auch das langsame annähern der beiden zueinander. Es war nicht zu plötzlich oder überstürzt, es passte einfach auch zu Zachs ganzer Vorgeschichte. natürlich auch zu Ben, der seinen Beruf auch nicht auf die leichte Schulter nimmt. Schön langsam konnte Ben immer mehr Zachs Vertrauen gewinnen was angesichts der Umstände schon ein eigenes kleines Weihnachtswunder war.

Dann die Familie um Ben und Zach herum. Herrlich wie sich eigentlich völlig Fremde um Zach kümmerten und ihm ein schönes Fest erleben ließen. Zwar gab es einen „Zweifler“ doch auch das hat sich noch gegeben.

Ein wenig enttäuscht war ich dann eher von den heißen Szenen, da hat die Leidenschaft die beide für einander empfanden ein wenig auf Sparflamme gekocht und die Sexszenen waren etwas „schwammig“. So als würde der Fotograf die Schärfe rausnehmen. Es tut der schönen Geschichte zwar nicht wirklich einen Abbruch, mich störte es aber leider etwas.

Alles in allem eine schöne und rührselige Geschichte mit zwei interessanten Hauptfiguren. Ich hatte Spaß beim Lesen und kann sie guten Gewissens an jeden weiterempfehlen, der emotionale Geschichten mit viel Gefühl und einer Priese Sex gerne liest.