Review: So Sweet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2013
This is an oh so sweet and wonderful short story filled with a lot of the "feel goods". It is a lighthearted romance about two completely different men who still manage to find the good underneath it all.Tavio is a barista in a coffee shop, and apparently, according to Tommy, he's their "coffee god". Now Tavio doesn't know about that, he just knows he likes to work alone, do a good job, and make people's lives a little easier, in his own way. Tommy has been a customer for the past year. An out and proud nerd, Tommy spends his time in the morning rattling off whatever his latest interest is, in nerd-dom, whether comics, Star Trek or something else. Tavio isn't much on socializing, or even speaking, for that matter, so he just listens and wonders why Tommy seems to find him interesting. Tavio has a lot of things he doesn't want to think about, much less talk about, after three tours and leaving the Army, but somehow Tommy has gotten under his skin.When Tavio meets Tommy's daughter, he doesn't know what to think, feeling a little hurt that in a year Tommy never mentioned her. He talked about everything else under the sun, but he didn't tell Tavio about his daughter. Of course, when Tommy explains that he was waiting to ask Tavio out so they could fall in love before introducing her, then Tavio really doesn't know what to think or say. But, he accepts the date from Tommy to his daughter's little league game that Tommy is assistant coaching, and, well, let's just say that after a year, it was a heck of a first kiss.I really enjoyed this story. The best part? When it came right down to it, Tommy and Tavio weren't all that different after all.NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews