Buy A Boyfriend by Everly Ashton is now live!
It wasn’t my expectation to fall into bed with the woman who won me at the bachelor auction.
I was only doing my grandma a favor, not looking for more than a shared dinner with the winner. Then again, I wasn’t expecting someone as hot as Isla to be my date.
She makes it clear that she’s down for a night in the sheets but bolts, leaving me holding my junk—literally. Which I figure, in the end, is all fine and good because love burned me before, and I have no plans to repeat that soul-crushing heartbreak.
I took a much-needed vacation from the handyman business I own with my brothers, Rent A Husband, only to return to find out they’d hired Isla, making me her boss.
And now I have to see her every day, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not still drawn to her. But I burned that bridge the night she was briefly in my bed, and any lust she had for me has turned to hatred.
Which is for the best because she has a new boyfriend, which is all the motivation I need to stay away from her. Until it’s not.
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Audio Narrated by: Lee Samuels & Maxine Mitchell
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I am so glad that Everly Ashton returned to the Abbott Brothers series! I really loved Lucas and Cami’s story, and it’s been a few years — I wasn’t sure if we would see the other Rent-A-Husband guys find love, but here we are!
Travis and Isla first meet when their grandmothers set them up at a bachelor auction (aka the Buy a Boyfriend title). Not wanting the bidders to know his true identity, Travis goes by his middle name, Eddie, for the auction, and that his hobby of carpentry is his job. The two go on a great first date, but then as things get hot and heavy back at Eddie’s house, Isla bolts… leaving Eddie, who is already feeling a little insecure about returning to the dating scene again after a bad breakup, dejected and rejected.
The following week, Isla starts a new job as the admin at Rent A Husband handyman service, but the third Abbott brother is out of town on vacation. So when Travis returns to the office, they are both *shocked* to see the other one. Add in her having a boyfriend when he returns months later from setting up the company’s second office, and Travis and Isla get off to a rocky start!
I thought the reason why Isla bolted from Travis’ apartment that first night was kind of lame (it was embarrassing, but nothing I think necessitated that kind of swift exit without an explanation). But I get that led to Travis being a grade-A jerk to Isla when they cross paths again in the office. Once they were able to get past that, this was actually quite a sweet second-chance romance. It’s relatively low-angst, with no third-act breakup. Travis gets caught up inside his head there for a while, and there are some strained weeks between them, but it’s resolved with a sweet gesture that ties up the story with a pretty bow at the end.
As I was reading Buy a Boyfriend, I went back and forth between the ebook and the audio, perfectly narrated in duet by Lee Samuels and Vanessa Edwin.
One thing that I would have liked to have seen more of was the grandmothers. They had such a strong part in setting up Travis and Isla in the beginning and then just… disappeared? Travis’ grandmother showed up a few times later on in the book, but Isla’s grandmother was nowhere to be found. She was briefly mentioned once as being part of the senior center where Isla is part of the book club (the same center that the auction was held for), but when discussing her family background with Travis, she didn’t even mention her grandmother. It was a plot hole that I thought could have been better filled. And I think there was a missed opportunity for the grandmas to meddle before Travis and Isla got together again.
There were a few other points that I thought could have been explored more (like the run-in with his ex and the suddenness of the epilogue), but overall, I thought this was a entertaining story with solid characters, a cute secret relationship/second-chance romance, and an entertaining cast of secondary characters.
I can’t wait to learn what’s going on with Josh and Nova! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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