Summer Stockby Vanessa North
Published by Riptide Publishing
eARC (received via NetGalley)
Adult, LGBT, contemporary, romance
Tabloid scandals have driven TV star Ryan Hertzog to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where he’s hiding out doing summer stock at his cousin’s seaside theater. When a hookup with local handyman Trey Donovan results in Ryan being photographed butt naked, he vows to keep his pants on and his hands off Trey. How was he supposed to know Trey would turn out to be the summer stock set builder?
Trey isn’t looking for a relationship; he’s still recovering from the emotional fallout of an abusive marriage. But Ryan’s laughter draws him in again and again, and he’s not about to say no to fooling around.
As the summer heats up, the paparazzi catch Ryan in increasingly compromising situations. Ryan might be too much drama for a summer fling—and Trey might be just an intermission from Ryan’s Hollywood life. But if they take their cues from Shakespeare, all’s well that ends well.
Summer Stock is a very lovely love story that features some nice platonic friendships. The main characters, Ryan and Trey, are both trying to figure out their place in life; Ryan is figuring his life out while his best friend Ali is in rehab and he's trying to shed the Hollywood party boy persona. Trey, however, survived abusive marriage, getting out barely alive, and now he's dealing with its fallout and his own insecurities. Vanessa North dealt with both of their insecurities and problems without any unnecessary drama or pitfalls.
Both Ryan and Trey were very likable characters and they had chemistry, and there was some good and steamy moments. The biggest applauds has to go to the fact that both of them acted like responsible adults and they actually talked about things and problems, and apologized when they made mistakes. It was very refreshing and partly because of that there wasn't a lot of angst and drama. Summer Stock was nice and quite smooth sail, a really cute contemporary romance that made me happy to dive into it. And of course, I was so super excited to have bisexual main character! Especially one like Ryan who was well rounded character who refused to be labelled as anything else than bisexual.
Overall, Summer Stock was really nice love story which was quiet in a sense that there wasn't any unnecessary drama. I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and I do recommend it to anyone who finds the blurb interesting.
4 of 5 stars
Thank you, Riptide Publishing, for giving me a chance to read and review Summer Stock!
(A copy of this ebook was provided in return for an honest review.)
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