Blog Tour + Review + Excerpt | The Pool Boy (Nashville Neighborhood #2) by Nikki Sloane --> 4.5 S
TITLE: The Pool Boy
SERIES: Nashville Neighborhood #2 AUTHOR: Nikki Sloane
GENRE: Erotic Romance
RELEASE DATE: July 11th, 2020
Nothing says happy birthday like catching your husband in a compromising position with his boss. His male boss. Why, hello, midlife crisis. I’m starting over, but this time I’m doing it right. Or at least I’m doing what I want. Taking the day off from work to hang out poolside? Yup. Do I leave the swimsuit in my house? Sure. Does my very hot, twenty-something pool boy happen to catch me naked? Oh, yeah, he does. And he likes what he sees… a lot. My best friend keeps telling me to have a fling and get back out there. But I’m not so sure she meant for me to do it with her son.
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⭐️ 4.5 "Music of the Heart" Stars ⭐️
Since first reading the synopsis of The Pool Boy, I was eager to get this story. I really enjoy age gap romances and this one was without a doubt a very delicious one. If I’m not mistaken, it was my first time where the heroine is older than the hero and it felt refreshing to me. Nikki Sloane achieved to bring the right balance between steamy hot and emotional with this story. Erika and Troy’s relationship was so amazing. Their stolen moments were sinfully hot, but also the way they connected so easily through their passion for music was beautiful. Every single moment between them, I felt their romance wasn’t only something physical, but ran deeper! In spite of their age difference, they brought something special to each other. The fact Troy was Erika’s best friend’s son added a little bit of taboo to this already forbidden love story. I enjoyed this story a lot and I’m now intrigued about the first novel in the Nashville Neighborhood series, The Doctor, that I hadn’t previously read. I’ll certainly check it out soon!
** ARC received in exchange for an honest review **
Troy Osbourne came once a week to service both my pool and the freestanding spa. I’d hired him last year to handle closing and covering the pool for the winter, then reopening it for me last month, and his weekly visits that followed had kept the water crystal clear and the pH perfectly balanced. My pool had never looked so good. But Troy always came when I was at work and let himself in through the gate at the side of my fence, so I had completely forgotten his schedule. He must have gone behind the pool house and inside to fetch his supplies, and when he’d rounded the corner and discovered me topless, he’d dropped everything in his arms. Including the long pole with the net on the end. It was as if someone had put their foot down on the sustain pedal of a piano, only this piano played the music of time, and the moment suspended with my long, drawn out gasp. I was topless, and he was frozen, and holy shit, he was my best friend’s twenty-four-year-old son. It burst from my lips in horror. “Oh, fuck!” In my panic, I grasped at my towel to cover myself, only to struggle, hopelessly, since it was pinned beneath my body. I leapt to my feet and yanked the terrycloth up, pressing it over my naked chest. Troy still hadn’t moved. His lips were open, as if he’d planned to say something, but now he was frozen and unable to do anything. I couldn’t see his eyes behind his mirrored Aviator sunglasses, but he didn’t seem to be breathing. So, I did what any reasonable woman would when a gorgeous, almost-stranger caught her naked. I ran.
THE NASHVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD SERIES
Book #1
The Doctor
USA Today bestselling author Nikki Sloane landed in graphic design after her careers as a waitress, a screenwriter, and a ballroom dance instructor fell through. For eight years she worked for a design firm in that extremely tall, black, and tiered building in Chicago that went through an unfortunate name change during her time there.
Now she lives in Kentucky, is married and has two sons. She is a three-time Romance Writers of America RITA© Finalist, a Passionate Plume winner, a HOLT Medallion finalist, and couldn't be any happier that people enjoy reading her sexy words.
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