Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: Mia Monroe

Genre: Gay Romance

Tags: Contemporary, Age Gap (8 Years), Bi Character (s), First Time, Older Main Characters, Opposites Attract, Romance, Series, Small Town

Length: 228 Pages

Reviewer: Cindi

Purchase At: Amazon

Blurb –

Helping him explore his attraction to men was supposed to be no strings fun, not turn me into a whipped puppy dog, but here we are.

The college twink scene is wearing on me. Sure, it works out for a no-commitment guy like myself, but the constant drama and faceless rotation of pretty boys in and out of my bed isn’t as exciting as it once was. Maybe watching one of my best friends find love is poking at me too.

That’s what was on my mind when someone new walked into Moby’s looking lost, nervous, and definitely biteable. It only seemed right that I offered to keep him company, and when he readily accepted, I was looking forward to trying someone older, mature, and not looking for anything serious. Just like me.

He’s inexperienced when it comes to dating men, and I’m more than happy to introduce him to what he’s been missing. What I didn’t expect was the instant addiction I developed to his shy smile, his needy moans, and the way his sweet eyes linger on me. There’s no way one night is gonna be enough.

Stewart is smart, sweet, and gorgeous, and like my favorite cocktail, he’s got layers I’m interested in tasting. He’s lived a buttoned-up existence until now, but I think it’s time he tasted a little Gin and Sin. We might be opposites, but hopefully the balance of our relationship will be more sweet than sour.

Gin & Sin is book two in Last Call, a contemporary series set in the New Onyx universe. You can expect a guy bored with his current dating options, a handsome, recently divorced professor ready to embrace his sexuality, two opposites attracting, a detached bear turning puppy dog for the right guy, one fell first, the other fell harder, a casual friends with benefits becoming way more, an awesome group of friends, a quirky gay bar setting, and all the steam.

Review –

Kit should be having the time of his life. He’s recently come back home and opened the town’s only gay bar with his five best friends. There are more college boys eager for a good time than he can keep up with. He may be 40, but he has no problem at all hooking up with the young twinks who walk into the bar on a nightly basis. Everything was good until he watched his former manwhore best friend Indy fall in love and settle down with Salem in Whiskey Neat, #1 in the series. If there was one person nobody expected to fall in love it would be Indy. Now he’s happy and completely off the market.

Kit is feeling a little bored, maybe a little anxious. He’s tired of the young guys who he has zero in common with. Not that what they do involves much talking, but still. He’s simply not feeling it anymore.

Stewart, 48, is a college professor who has not long been through a pretty nasty divorce with his wife. He’s always known he was gay, or maybe bisexual, but he never cheated on his wife. He’s also never been with another man, and he really wants to. It takes a lot of courage for him to step inside the town’s gay bar, Moby’s, but it doesn’t take long before he’s really glad he did. One of the owner’s, Kit, speaks to him within seconds of him walking in. Before he knows what’s happening, he’s telling Kit why he’s there – to maybe get a little experience as a gay or bi guy. He’s absolutely terrified, but Kit’s right there to ease his fears. He’s also right there eager to teach Mr. College Professor any and all things about man on man sex. 😉 And he definitely does…. over and over… and well, you get my point.

“Forty-eight years old and I feel like a virgin on prom night.”

I’m doing this. It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally getting my hands on a real live man. Not bad for a quasi-virgin.

Like with Indy and Salem, feelings aren’t meant to happen. Stewart just wants experience. Kit, who has never been serious with anybody a day in his life, just wants to have fun. It doesn’t take long before they go from being teacher and student to much more. They’re both just too stubborn to even admit it to themselves, much less to each other. It takes a snowstorm, and that forced proximity that we see in so many books these days, for them to figure it out.

These two guys were really good together. I loved watching shy Stewart come out of his shell. I loved watching ‘I just want random hookups’ Kit realize that what he feels for Stewart is so much more than lust and just new friendship. I loved how they professed their love for each other. It was super sweet.

“I’m in love with him. I’m actually completely in love with Stewart.”

He pats my arm. “Welcome to the club.”

“What do I do now?”

“Tell him? Worked out pretty good for me.”

“Tell him.” I swallow down the tightness in my throat. “Just… say the words?”

There’s zero angst in this book, which is not a bad thing. It’s also only 228 pages, so no waiting around for things to happen. Let me tell you… things are happening between Stewart and Kit super fast, like within minutes of meeting fast. I loved that. No dragging things out. The sex was hot, though I have to stay that certain things were a bit much because they were done over and over with next to zero prep, and I’m not talking about penetration. The variety was there, but it seemed like they were mostly focused on one thing.

I guess the handsome and gorgeous and beautiful are just this author’s thing. They’re in this book quite a bit. Not as much as in the first one, but still all over the place.

The only real complaint I have about the story is how much they, mainly Kit, go into detail about past partners and sexual experiences. I noticed it in Whiskey Neat too, and I wasn’t a fan then, and I’m not a fan in Gin & Sin. No doubt Stewart would have been uncomfortable hearing all the graphic details considering he was basically a virgin; well, definitely a virgin when it came to men before he met Kit.

Overall, this is a nice, no angst love story about two very different men. Lowen and Oak’s story is next. They’ve been dancing around each other for a while.