The Gift (Love in O’Leary, Book 2) by May Archer
Daniel
I suck at relationships and don’t trust anyone, but there are reasons for that. For one thing, every person I’ve ever cared about has let me down. The only recent exception: O’Leary’s town veterinarian…my new best friend.
I came to O’Leary for a fresh start. To pare things down to essentials. To forget about the failures in my past. The last thing I need is complications, and most definitely
Not.
A.
Boyfriend.
Julian
I’ve lived in O’Leary my entire life and learned to fly under the radar a long time ago. I do what’s expected, say what’s expected, and keep to myself as much as possible. It’s a hell of a lot simpler spending my time working with animals than trying to interact with actual people. The one unlikely exception: the gorgeous guy who moved to a cabin just outside of town and somehow became my best friend.
But friendships are complicated, and one morning I find myself accidentally telling the whole town the biggest lie of my life. Which is how Daniel Michaelson, my very straight, very hot best friend becomes my fake boyfriend, even though he’s most definitely
Not.
My.
Lover.
🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
🔥🔥🔥 Heat Level: 3.5
A contemporary, heartfelt escape, of love, change and finding home.
This was my first story of May’s and it was throughly enjoyable. Although this is the second book in her Love in O’Leary series it can be read as a standalone and although I haven’t read the first book I could still follow the story and didn’t feel like I missed anything.
I must say though that, this is a long book and May has a very descriptive writing style. I feel that the story flowed, featured ups and downs and all the emotions caught up in friends to lovers, fake boyfriend and gay for you tropes. I felt for Julian and loved his animal facts!! May is great at injecting real-world humour into her story and I loved the Bear Grylls references!
I enjoyed Daniel’s gay ‘discovery’ and feel like he handled the emotions well and all I can say is I was the charcaters would talk to each other, there was a lot of miscommunication or no communications and therefore their love story was a little slow to finally be real.
I enjoyed this story and the little town of O’Leary and look forward to who May will write about next!
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