NOBODY’S PRINCE CHARMING
AIMEE NICOLE WALKER
M/M ROMANCE
RELEASE DATE: 03.23.18
COVER DESIGN: JAY AHEER/ Simply Defined Art
COVER PHOTOGRAPHER: WANDER AGUIAR
BLURB
Fire and ice. Oil and water. Vodka and decisions. That’s what Darren McCoy and Wren Davison are: two opposites that shouldn’t mix well. Dare believes in fairy tales, true love, and happily ever after. Wren believes in fast cars, freedom, and no-strings sex. What can these two men possibly have in common? A magnetic pull strong enough to obliterate logic and reason.
For more than a year, Dare and Wren have worked together at the Curl Up and Dye Salon. Dare has pursued the mysterious, brooding man, and Wren has resisted his provocative charm. Then one day, something happens that allows the men to see each other in a new light. Wren learns that Dare hides a heavy heart behind his brilliant smile. Dare realizes that beneath Wren’s gruff exterior beats the heart of a prince.
Passions ignite once the men stop fighting their attraction, but will it be enough to overcome their differences? Is Wren the prince that Dare is looking for? Can Dare teach Wren that true love does exist?
Nobody’s Prince charming is a modern-day fairy tale where some princes ride Harleys, and castle walls are built to scale. It is the third book in the Road to Blissville series but can be read as a standalone book. This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adults eighteen and over.
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REVIEW
4 Stars
Glad to be back in Blissville and get a glimpse of some of the characters that I’ve grown to love. We FINALLY get Wren and Dare!!! These two had me so intrigued because Wren was just so broody and mysterious. I love that Aimee Nicole Walker kept this book low key. It was low angst and little to no drama.
Wren and Dare’s journey was a slow paced, slow burn story. I think that I would have liked to see a little bit more heat and passion from these two. I would’ve liked to read about more of their relationship as opposed to Wren fighting the chemistry that brewed between them. But overall, I loved these two together. Dare was just so much fun and lively. He really was just a complete sweet heart and I loved his grandpa. Grandpa was a great touch to this story.
I don’t know but for me the heat factor wasn’t all there. Don’t get me wrong Aimee Nicole Walker can write some steamy sex scenes but I feel like lately they haven’t been as scorching and raunchy as I would have thought or liked for that matter, lol. Especially from these two but a lot of it was just skipped over. For me I think the heat factor needs to be upped a game or two. The story just comes off really sweet and Wren is more prince charming then he thinks.
Hopefully she’s saving all the raunchiness for Andy and Milo’s story, which I can’t wait to read. But this was a good read and a great addition to the series.
*** ARC received in exchange for an honest review ***
EXCERPT
We didn’t say anything on our way up to Dare’s room because
neither of us wanted to risk waking Ralph. We were lucky that we didn’t get
caught when we pulled that stunt in the laundry room. Okay, the stunt that I
pulled. I knew that Ralph liked me, and I even suspected he knew that his
grandson had become very important to me, but that didn’t give me the right to
be disrespectful in his home. It wasn’t because we were gay either. I would’ve
felt the same if we were a straight couple sneaking up to… Couple? I rolled the
word around in my head a few times, expecting a negative thought to refute its
validity but none came. I discovered I liked the way the word felt, sounded,
and even tasted on my tongue. Just because I didn’t speak it out loud didn’t
mean it was less true.
When we got to Dare’s room, we silently undressed each other in
between soft kisses in the muted light from the lamp on the bedside table. The
mood between us was different like we both had realized something important
that day: what we shared was poignant and real. There was a confidence in
Dare’s hands when he touched me and in his eyes when he looked at me. Did he
see and feel the same changes in me?
Even my arousal was different. Rather than the all-consuming fire,
it was a slow-burning flame that never seemed to diminish or burn out. It
vibrated through me like normal, but new emotions joined the passion:
tenderness and a desire for something I didn’t deserve and shouldn’t want. I’d
been stingy with my heart for my entire life, giving it only to my mom who had
died and a boy who was nearly rejected by his family for loving me. My mom
didn’t choose to willingly leave me, but the boy did. I didn’t blame him, but
it still hurt, especially when our breakup was only a few months after my mom’s
death. I had no one in the world I could count on until I met Jimmy and Danny.
I sure as hell couldn’t count on Falcon. Just thinking about him brought on a
fresh wave of exhaustion, which killed my arousal.
Dare didn’t seem to mind. He pulled back the sheets and blankets
then gestured for me to climb inside. He joined me after I got situated then
turned off the light before he rolled over and lay his head on my chest. In the
dark, it was easier to find the words that I couldn’t speak to anyone else.
Hell, Jimmy and Danny didn’t even know that Falcon was my sperm donor, yet here
I was about to tell Dare everything.
“Wren,” he said softly in the darkness. “You don’t have to tell me
anything if you don’t want to, okay? If you do want to talk, I promise you that
nothing you say will leave this room.”
“I know, Sparkles.” I trailed my hands up and down his back,
finding comfort in the rhythm and already familiar feel of my fingers bumping
along his spine. “You’d never betray my trust.” I knew it as certain as the sun
would rise in the east. No matter what happened between us, Dare would keep my
confidence. “Once upon a time,” I began to lighten the mood. I expected Dare to
snort, but he giggled. “What?”
“That’s a phrase I use frequently in my head. I tend to work
everyday events into fairy tales.”
“Yeah? Who am I?” I asked.
“Prince Charming, duh. Only with longer hair, biker boots, and a
beefier body. My prince rides a Harley instead of a horse.”
“Sparkles, I’m nobody’s Prince Charming.”
“You don’t get to decide that,” he said in a singsong voice. “I
decide who my Prince Charming is and no one else.”
I ignored the fluttering in my stomach and dug deep for a gruff
response. “Fine, but don’t say that I didn’t warn you.”
“Once upon a time…” Dare prompted.
About the Author
I am a wife and mother to three kids, three dogs, and a cat. When I’m not dreaming up stories, I like to lose myself in a good book, cook or bake. I’m a girly tomboy who paints her fingernails while watching sports and yelling at the referees. I will always choose the book over the movie. I believe in happily-ever- after. Love inspires everything that I do. Music keeps me sane.
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