A review by swamphag
Snakes Among Sweet Flowers by Jason Huffman-Black
5.0
In this book we get a retired criminal trying to make a new life for himself and a cop who is utterly suspicious of him. I was worried that I wasn’t going to like it (who knows why) but I really enjoyed it. Black’s writing was really good and he did a good job of pacing the book and developing the characters. It didn’t devolve into stereotype vs stereotype like some other opposites-attract books tend to do.
The people in the small town were numerous and charming. It was nice to see Cam interact with them and grow because of his relationship with the people in the town instead of just his interest in Jackson. Black did a good job of showing Cam’s growth from criminal to a charming small town local and making sure it wasn’t an instant change.
It was a slow burn type of romance so we really get to know both Cam and Jackson as they get to know each other. Jackson was sooooooooo reluctant to get involved with Cam because he saw him as a criminal, but also because Jackson is closeted as all hell. The pace made it easy to root for them and made their eventual relationship more believable.
The only two things that I didn’t really like about it were Grant (gay townie) and the ending. I don’t know why Black included a random section with Grant’s POV in the book, but Grant was really useless in general and did nothing for me. It just added random drama when there was already enough going on.
The ending was just kind of abrupt: sex bye! The rest of the book was really good though and I read it in a hot minute because it just sucked me in.
review originally posted over at Just Love Romance https://justloveromance.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/snakes-among-sweet-flowers-huffman-black/
The people in the small town were numerous and charming. It was nice to see Cam interact with them and grow because of his relationship with the people in the town instead of just his interest in Jackson. Black did a good job of showing Cam’s growth from criminal to a charming small town local and making sure it wasn’t an instant change.
It was a slow burn type of romance so we really get to know both Cam and Jackson as they get to know each other. Jackson was sooooooooo reluctant to get involved with Cam because he saw him as a criminal, but also because Jackson is closeted as all hell. The pace made it easy to root for them and made their eventual relationship more believable.
The only two things that I didn’t really like about it were Grant (gay townie) and the ending. I don’t know why Black included a random section with Grant’s POV in the book, but Grant was really useless in general and did nothing for me. It just added random drama when there was already enough going on.
The ending was just kind of abrupt: sex bye! The rest of the book was really good though and I read it in a hot minute because it just sucked me in.
review originally posted over at Just Love Romance https://justloveromance.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/snakes-among-sweet-flowers-huffman-black/