Review: Bam! Hot, hot, hot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
Lady McNeill's review at Mrs Condit & Friends Read BooksSlow Burn by Sam B. Morgan was a total hit with me. Grumpy, in the closet cop falls for an out of the closet, super sweet physical therapist. Definitely punched all of my buttons to make a favorite story…great characters, hot sex, believable story, angst! Sigh..really, I could go back and read it all over again.Douglas Brody, or Brody as he is called, is the cop and he’s just seriously injured himself. He needs to rehab before he can go back to work and he’s grumpy as hell. He now has a new PT because his old one was getting nowhere. Zack, the new PT, won’t take Brody’s crap. With some reverse logic, Zack gets Brody working and healing. Attraction is building between the two but they definitely aren’t showing it, plus Brody is in the closet. He doesn’t want to be gay because his job is too important to him but he can’t get Zack out of his head. Zack is equally attracted to Brody but he doesn’t need the complication in his life. He knows anything with Brody will only lead to heartache.I loved the initial pace of the story. They don’t meet and fall into bed. In fact it takes weeks of therapy where they very slowly build a friendship…barely a friendship. It is only after PT ends where they tentatively act on their attraction and the first kiss did not end well. But when Brody finally admits his attraction bam…hot hot hot. The two together are smoking. Unfortunately reality comes back to bite them in the butt with Brody and his comfort in the closet.Zack and Brody make the story for me so definitely a character driven story. Brody does act like an ass but we see the true man inside as he opens himself up to Zack. There is a back story with the murder mystery that Brody has been investigating. It is important to the story but didn’t grab my attention as much as the relationship. I like my murder mysteries darker and scarier.While the initial pace was excellent, I felt like their actual relationship could have slowed down just a tad. Really I wanted more scenes with them together before the big conflict comes up in the story. The story still works really well but I just wanted it longer. More build would have made for a bigger conflict/climax at the end. Still, Slow Burn, is a top read!