Title: Build: A Bad Boy Snowed In Romance
Series: Burns Brothers #1
Series: Burns Brothers #1
Author: Gillian Archer
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Blurb
Welcome to
Bad@ss Builds where the motorcycles are as sexy as the brothers building them.
Austin Burns:
I thought she
wasn’t real the first time I saw her. To be fair I was a hungover mess when I
woke up and looked into her gorgeous eyes. After getting the second worst news
of my life—that my father would be paroled soon—I’d escaped to my buddy’s posh
cabin near Lake Tahoe. Now the maid with the gorgeous eyes is snowed in with
me, and I wonder if she might be a better distraction than the mountain of
booze I’d planned on drinking. She’s curvy in all the right places, and the
snow is falling faster.
Rachel
Tannenbaum:
As a single mom, I
don’t have time for men, especially irresponsible tattooed bad boys like my ex.
But Austin is hot. And sexy. And stuck here in the cabin with me. I can’t say
no to a fling with this bad boy, especially since Austin is so gorgeous and
awkwardly sweet.
One night becomes
two, and I don’t know if I can risk my heart—and my little boy’s—if Austin
wants it to become more when we get through the snow and back to reality.
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Excerpt
I’d just straightened
up the pile of mats when a scraping sound caught my attention. Raising the
blinds, I looked out the window and saw Rachel standing in the middle of the
road, shovel in hand, pushing the snow into big piles. She’d got about ten feet
of road cleared in addition to her car.
Did she
really think she could plow the fucking road between here and the highway? It
was miles of road!
“Son of a
bitch.” I ran out of the room. Three steps later, I almost tripped over Blue in
the hallway. He’d taken up a post between me and the doorway, almost like he
couldn’t decide who he should be guarding. “Hey, boy. You okay?”
Blue sat up
with a whine and swung his head toward the front door.
“Yeah, I
think we gotta talk some sense in her. She can’t plow the fucking road all by
herself. Come on.” I grabbed my coat next to the door and pulled it on over my
naked chest. My shirt was balled up somewhere in Cole’s home gym. I shoved my
bare feet into my boots next to the door and half-assedly laced them up. Blue
whined next to me, urging me to hurry. I ripped open the door, and Blue bounded
out, with me close on his heels.
“What the
hell are you doing, woman!” I shouted before I met up with Rachel.
She glanced
at me then bent down to pet Blue. “What does it look like?”
“It looks
like you’re fucking insane. You do know there’s like five miles of road between
us and the highway, right? Are you planning on plowing the whole fucking thing
by hand?”
“I have to
do something!” Rachel waved an agitated hand as she stood back up to face me.
“I can’t just sit here and wait for someone to call or show up. I have people
waiting on me—my family is counting on me.”
“You think
I don’t know that? You think the same fucking thing isn’t happening to me right
now? I was supposed to be at work today too. Our scariest fucking client is
expecting a bike delivery today, and
I’m not gonna be there to stand between him and my brother. That’s my job!
That’s what I’ve done my whole life, and today I’m not gonna be there. I won’t
be there to protect him.”
Rachel
stared back at me with wide eyes, and her mouth opened and closed like a fish.
I sighed as
some of my anger melted away at Rachel’s bewilderment.
I hadn’t
meant to reveal so much. My shit was my shit. No one else needed to know what
was really going on in my life—least of all a piece of ass I’d hooked up with
for a night. I just had so much anger pent up. Booze hadn’t helped. Exercise
hadn’t helped. Really the only thing that’d worked was when I had her naked and
under me, but that’d never happen again.
I needed to
get my shit under control.
“Look, I’m
sorry, okay?” I reached over and gently took the snow shovel out of her hands.
“We all have shit—that’s all I’m saying. Well, that, and there’s no way either
of us is going to be able to dig our way out of this mess. There’s too much
road between us and the highway. It’s dangerous. We’re better off waiting until
the plow comes. I don’t know where the hell Cole’s business manager is, but he
still hasn’t called me back. If you’d like, I can call around and see if I can
find another service.”
Rachel bit
her lip and looked down the long, snow-covered road, her brow wrinkled.
“I’ll even
pay.”
Rachel’s
eyes shot to mine. “It’s not the money that’s bothering me. Well, it is, ‘cause
I can’t afford it, but I’m worried about the weather. There’s supposed to be
another system moving in this afternoon. If we can’t get out of here by noon, I
doubt you’ll find another outfit willing to come out in the middle of another
storm. We could be trapped here overnight again.”
I nodded
slowly. “I’ll get on the horn and see if we can get you home to your little boy
sooner than later.”
“Thank
you.”
Review
This is my first book by the author and though this wasn't a home run with me, I'm interested enough to read the next book and see what happens.
Build showed potential, it's an interesting read but not a can't put it down read for me.
Honestly Austin spent a good bit of the book being a total jackass and that ruined him for me, no matter what changes he made he was still jackass material.
In all fairness both characters have their own issues it just seems Austin took it to the extreme attitude wise and I just can't stomach that kind of behavior. It reiterated the story's blurb for me. Rich guy and the help. I wanted to punch him on more than one occasion.
Rachel is responsible for two people and busting her butt to make sure they are taken care of which shows strength but she came across as such a mild mannered weakling I just couldn't love her. I wanted to love her, what she was doing for her mom made me smile and warmed my icy heart but she was such a damn pushover I couldn't stand it.
I wanted to love this book, I really did. I liked it well enough but honestly just felt the chemistry was off, it just wasn't where it should be. There was a lack of connection for me at times that just didn't work, and that's probably just me but this is what I did and didn't enjoy about this read.
Build showed potential, it's an interesting read but not a can't put it down read for me.
Honestly Austin spent a good bit of the book being a total jackass and that ruined him for me, no matter what changes he made he was still jackass material.
In all fairness both characters have their own issues it just seems Austin took it to the extreme attitude wise and I just can't stomach that kind of behavior. It reiterated the story's blurb for me. Rich guy and the help. I wanted to punch him on more than one occasion.
Rachel is responsible for two people and busting her butt to make sure they are taken care of which shows strength but she came across as such a mild mannered weakling I just couldn't love her. I wanted to love her, what she was doing for her mom made me smile and warmed my icy heart but she was such a damn pushover I couldn't stand it.
I wanted to love this book, I really did. I liked it well enough but honestly just felt the chemistry was off, it just wasn't where it should be. There was a lack of connection for me at times that just didn't work, and that's probably just me but this is what I did and didn't enjoy about this read.
Author Bio
Gillian has a bachelor’s degree in mining engineering but
prefers to spend her time on happily ever after. She writes the kind of stories
she loves to read—the hotter the better!
When Gillian’s not pounding away on the keyboard, she can be
found surfing the couch indulging in her latest reality tv fixation, baking
something ridiculously tasty (and horrible for her waist line) or snuggling
with her husband.
Home is currently in the wilds of Nevada with her amazing
husband, ridiculously cute kiddo, and goofy dog.
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