Nothing Special - A.E. Via

This story has been told before.  Countless times really and with better results.  Not to say this book didn't make me snicker here and there, but not always for the right reasons.

 

What I enjoyed:

  • Leo's snarky one liners. This character was funny. 
  • It's a cop/detective story. Get's me every time.
  • Friends to lovers. Hey it takes them almost five years to get there.
  • The love scene were good if to frequent.

 

 

What missed the mark:

  • Did no one proof read this? Editing!!!
  • The dialogue.  Several times I just had to shake my head in disgust. No one would ever say that!!!
  • This story had multiple eye rolling moments.  Did logic just leave the room?
    Forgive me, but I find it hard to believe that "God" wouldn't have some resentment against his Mother and brother.  Here he's supporting them( Like they couldn't have figured out it was him.) and they still think the worst of him. One moment they hate him and the next all is hearts and flowers. Please.
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  • The names of the two main characters. God??? Leonidis???  Just odd.
  • And finally...I love you. Were in a commited relationship and
    now let's invite our former bullies/stalkers into our bed.  Makes my head hurt.
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Overall, this book was okay. Too many issues for me to read again, but it did have its moments of goodness.

 

Book Description:

Detective Cashel 'Cash' Godfrey is big, tattooed and angry so people typically keep their distance. He's fresh out of the police academy, however, no one is looking to partner with the six foot four beast with a huge chip on his shoulder and an inability to trust. When Cash scans the orientation room he wasn't expecting to find sexy hazel eyes locked onto him. Eyes of the handsome Detective Leonidis 'Leo' Day.

Leo is charming, witty, hilariously sarcastic and the only one that can make Cash smile. He’s proud, out and one bad-ass detective.​

Together Cash and Leo become the most revered and successful narcotics detectives Atlanta’s ever seen. Able to communicate and understand each other, without even having to voice it, they quickly climb up the promotional ranks.

When Cash saves Leo's life in a raid that turns deadly, Leo begins to see something in the big man that no one else does…something special. But Leo fears he'll never break through the impenetrable wall that protects Cash's heart.

Nothing Special takes the reader through various emotions throughout the richly fulfilling plot that’s full of erotic gay romance, heartache, passion, trials and tribulations, police action scenes, and an intriguing twist that comes to an amazing ending that’s impossible to see coming.