Release Review and Giveaway: Dirty Trick: K. M. Neuhold
Release date October 14, 2022
Can you be friends with benefits with a guy who hates you? What about enemies with benefits instead?
My plan to lick every cupcake Boston wants until he realizes I’m his only option might actually work out…
Was pretending to sleep with tons of men to keep my crush from hooking up with them a Dirty Trick? Sure. Do I regret it? Not one bit.
Telling Boston I have a thing for him would’ve been the logical thing to do. Unfortunately, logic hasn’t always been my strong suit. I decided to go the—“get under his skin until hostility turns into affection”-- route instead, and I think it’s finally working.
But once he’s worked off all his annoyance with me, will there be real feelings underneath? I guess only time will tell…
Patrick came to Palm Island on vacation and fell in love with the place and had what he thought was a hook-up with a meaningful connection. He enjoyed it so much that two years later, he took a job as a surf instructor and moved to the island ready for fun and romance. Color him shocked when the guy he couldn’t stop thinking about didn't even remember him.
Boston is the broody, private, burly bartender on Palm Island and it helped him get some action, but since Trick has moved to the island he’s been c___ blocking him for years. Every time he tries to hook up with someone Trick gets to him first. He doesn’t really know why Trick hates him so much, but he gets under his skin like no one else.
It’s the worst-kept secret on the island that Trick really likes Boston and just wants attention, but he’s too afraid to tell him and admit that he’s just been playing a game this whole time. Their communication is terrible and they continually rile each other up.
Their dynamic involves tricks, bets, dares, games, fussing, fuming, fighting, and now ready to add another F word to that after Trick makes a proposition. Enemies with benefits. Some mutual satisfaction. Maybe even a truce. But it is one of those situations that you just cringe every time the character passes on a chance to come clean and you want to just shake sense into them.
But if Boston brings his walls down, will finding out Trick's secret cause him to build them back up and start their vicious cycle again?
But if Boston brings his walls down, will finding out Trick's secret cause him to build them back up and start their vicious cycle again?
This is a snarky, hot, fun, one-night stand, second chance, enemies-to-lovers, island romance full of shenanigans and one big secret. It brings back all the quirky crew and there always seems to be some interesting dynamics going on in the background so I assume we will see some more of these guys in future books. They are all quite intriguing.
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I came to Palm Island two seasons ago, confused about my life and desperate for a change. The island drew me in, but I’m still not sure why.
Maybe it’s time I cut my losses and go back home, back to med school like I always planned.
But when the breathtaking, flirtatious, tattooed bartender I’ve been crushing on for ages offers to let me room with him this off-season, there’s no way I’m leaving now.
I can’t believe I’ve lived here this long without truly appreciating everything the island has to offer: the beauty of its untouched nature, how to catch a wave, the appeal of casual s…well, you know. But Ten seems determined to make sure I experience every last one, and then some.
Will this be the last off-season I spend here or could this thing between Ten and I be perfect?
***Welcome to Palm Island: Come for the sweaty nights and beach parties, stay for the endless swoon and heart-melting romance.
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Kim's review
Chef Storm is moody, antisocial...and he just asked me to be his fake boyfriend.
Most people on the island avoid the hot-tempered chef, but he doesn't scare me. Sure, he's prickly, but I've also caught him feeding a stray cat, so I know there's more to him than the sky-high, barbed-wire fence he's built around himself.
When Storm's ex-husband shows up unexpectedly during the off-season and refuses to go home, pretending to be Storm’s boyfriend is apparently my new job.
Faking it with my grumpy boss should not be this much fun, especially since the last thing I need is to make a fool of myself by falling for anyone else on the island.
Is there anything more exciting than being swept up in a storm? Maybe taming one…
***Taken by Storm is a grumpy/sunshine, sort of boss/employee, definitely fake boyfriend (except how fake is it if they’re ACTUALLY hooking up?), second book in The Off-Season series where the residents of gay resort island get up to WAY too much fun once all of the tourists leave for the season. Each book can be read as a stand alone, but trust me when I tell you that you won’t want to miss all of these shenanigans.
Author K.M.Neuhold is a complete romance junkie, a total sap in every way. She started her journey as an author in new adult, MF romance, but after a chance reading of an MM book she was completely hooked on everything about lovely- and sometimes damaged- men finding their Happily Ever After together. She has a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well. And she fully admits that her OCD tendencies of making sure every side character has a full backstory will likely always lead to every book having a spin-off or series. When she’s not writing she’s a lion tamer, an astronaut, and a superhero…just kidding, she’s likely watching Netflix and snuggling with her husky while her amazing husband brings her coffee.
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