Title: Charlie’s Hero (Heroes #1)
Author Name & Publisher: Nic Starr (Dreamspinner Press)
Publication Date & Length: June 17, 2015 – 200 pgs
Schoolteacher Charlie Matthews returns to his hometown, looking to regain a sense of community, reconnect with friends, and settle down. It looks like his dreams have come true when paramedic Josh Campbell attends an accident at the school. It’s love at first sight, and a romance begins.
But Josh’s reluctance to come out to the brother who raised him, puts pressure on their fledgling relationship. While Charlie understands Josh’s concerns, he can’t help growing impatient. After all, Charlie came out years ago.
It’s not until Charlie confronts his own parents and realizes he hasn’t come to terms with their rejection that he fully understands what Josh has to lose. But Josh is Charlie’s hero, and Josh will do anything to prove to Charlie that to be part of a family, he doesn’t need his parents.
While I enjoyed this story, I can’t say that I LOVED it. It was too sweetly romantic in my opinion. I mean there wasn’t even really any drama until like 80% through. It was more about the relationship as it grew and developed between the men.
I liked this book but there were parts of this book I just did not love. Parts of this book just dragged a little bit for me… Then you have Charlie and Josh, while I did think they were a cute couple I really did not feel it for some reason. This book had it’s sweet moments and there was some angst mixed in but not a lot. Josh was the sweet shy character and Charlie was the type of man who knew what he wanted. So I liked the story and the premise but for some reason I could not see them together at all.
Kara
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Nic Starr lives in Australia where she tries to squeeze as much into her busy life as possible. Balancing the demands of a corporate career with raising a family and writing can be challenging but she wouldn’t give it up for the world.
Always a reader, the lure of m/m romance was strong and she devoured hundreds of wonderful m/m romance books before eventually realising she had some stories of her own that needed to be told!
When not writing or reading, she loves to spend time with her family–an understanding husband and two beautiful daughters–and is often found indulging in her love of cooking and planning her dream home in the country.
