Publisher: Tygerseye Publishing, LLC
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Genre: LGBTQIA, Contemporary M/M Romance
Length: 278 pages
File Size: 2585 KB
Stars: [rating=3]
Blurb
The call comes when Beckett Adler least expects it. He’s made a new life for himself in Vermont and has a law practice of his own. After four years he’s even stopped wearing his wedding ring. So when he finds out his husband, bull rider Skyler Paulson, has been seriously injured at an event, he isn’t sure what he wants to do. He knows what’s right though, so he heads down to Baltimore to bring his man home.
Sky knows his injuries are a career-ender, and he can’t believe Beck has come for him after all this time. He’s not a hundred percent sure what went wrong with their marriage and he has no idea how to be anything but a bull rider. But he wants this second chance, so he grabs at it with both hands.
There’s a lot Sky has to learn, from how to walk again to how to settle down with the man he loves. Beck needs to learn to open up and how to be more trusting. For their marriage to work again, both men will have to find a way to meet in the middle. Because neither of them wants to be wrecked anymore.
Review
Wrecked by Jodi Payne and BA Tortuga is not an easy romance novel. The novel drops the reader into the middle of the story; there’s very little back history and no clear road to the future. Married couple, lawyer Beckett Adler and bull rider Skyler Paulson reunite after four years of separation. There’s no clear history of why they broke up, or why they never communicated for four years.
Wrecked picks up their story after a bull seriously injures Sky during an event. Beck re-enters his husband’s life after a phone call informs him that he needs to get to the hospital if he wants to see Sky before he dies!
As Sky struggles to regain his physical health, there are glimpses of the passion that brought the two men together. The sex is certainly steamy. Beyond the physical attraction, I struggled to discover the underlying connection between these two. How does a family lawyer and a bull rider even come into the same orbit?!
The singular purpose of Wrecked appears to be a re-union between Beck and Sky. I couldn’t warm up to the story, but I did like the characters. The writing is good, but the plot line leaves much to desire. How can two people deeply in love not speak to each other for four years?! That is the main problem I find with Wrecked. Granted there are suggestions of possible issues, such as the confusion over Parker, Sky’s traveling companion. However, Beck and Sky are such poor communicators, neither sees clearly what the issue is with Parker.
This is a second-chance-romance story, and I usually love those, but this one just left me scratching my head. Again, the writing is good– just the plot line is off. It rates 3 stars for me.