Review: Great Beginning
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
There is nothing in the world that I enjoy more than finding a new author, to me, and experiencing their style. 'Loving Luki Vasquez' is the first book in Lou Sylvre's 'Vasquez & James' series, and it is also the first book by this author that I have read. What struck me immediately was the fantastic descriptive style with which the author pens. I felt as if I was there, on the beach, at the loom, getting coffee at Margie's—and I was entranced. There were moments when the pacing was slow and then action sequences where it was jumping off the pages. An interesting and complex dichotomy of slow and fast, with the hardened ex-ATF agent and the artistic weaver. Beautiful. Just, beautiful.Luki is beautiful, dangerous, and determined to never let anything or anyone hurt him or climb into his heart. He has a big, open heart which he hides by shutting his emotions down to ice. Sonny is beautiful, artistic, and so socially awkward that he hides it behind his smart mouth. He's also a recluse, by choice, and Sonny stays away from friendships and definitely away from relationships. Luki is hardened and sour. Sonny is antisocial and acrimonious. Two men with difficult childhoods, leaving one of them, Luki, with an unsightly scar on his face, coming together and discovering what it means to love and be loved.Someone is stalking Sonny. Whoever it is, they've destroyed some of his work and they keep writing 'F@$&?T' all over the crime scenes. It's up to Luki and Sonny to get to the bottom of this, and find out what's going on. Luki may be an ex-ATF agent, and he may own his own agency, but he isn't a cop and the answers aren't right at hand. Sonny has another problem: his missing nephew, Delsyn, who lives with him. Delsyn is never around a lot, but he usually comes home every week to ten days. But, now, he's been gone for ten weeks and Sonny is very worried. Not to mention that Luki and Sonny are falling in love, slowly. Luki has never stayed the night with anyone before. He's never slept in someone's bed and no one has ever slept in his. Sonny, with his reclusive ways, is inexperienced with love. Falling for Sonny is scaring the hell out of Luki, but he doesn't know how to stop it. Of course, being a man, Luki manages to screw things up, more than once.I now know my first Lou Sylvre book won't be my last. These were interesting characters and the author has made me want more. Luki was so sad, in many ways, and when he opened up to Sonny about his childhood trauma, it about broke my heart. Sonny is a talented artist but he's closed himself off for so long, and falling in love with Luki was no easy task. The ending of the book was very climactic and exciting. Thank you, Lou, for an engaging story and I look forward to the next book in the series.NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews