Just not good.
Generally, I don’t read straight up romances as I find them boring, but I gave this one a shot as it featured dogs and a gay romance.
First, this book couldn’t have been more clichéd. City guy moves to the boondocks and falls for a country guy? Check.
A small, effeminate guy (Lito) is the bottom and the alpha male (Dave), muscle bound ex-army guy is the top? Check.
Fish out of water? Check?
A misunderstanding that the characters could have resolved if they just talked? Check.
If this weren’t bad enough, Lito, Dave, and the rest of the characters have zero personality.
And as for Lito and Dave, they have no chemistry together and I can’t see why they’d be together, as Dave seems like the type of guy who’d put “masc4masc, no fats, fems, Blacks or Asians” or “Latinos only” on his Grindr profile.
As for Lito, he’s the stereotypical gay guy into fashion/interior design/art and pop devas. And while we’re told he’s Peruvian, aside from a few lines about him being brown and speaking Spanish, he’s whitewashed like crazy.
The story takes forever to get going and there is no conflict until the last 3 or 4 chapters.
Only for the story to wrap up too neatly by the end.
Even the sex scenes, of which there are multiple, drag on, lacking any emotion or sensuality. They’re just a series of insert tab a into slot b.
The story finally picked up at the 80% mark only to abruptly end with a saccharin ending the characters didn’t earn.
Overall, I didn’t like this book and doubt I’ll read any of the others in the series.
I give Worth Searching For (Heart of the South #2) 2 stars.