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A review by katereads2much
All Note Long by Annabeth Albert
5.0
Michelin Moses did not want to come out, but even worse, the world things he was paying to hook up with the too attractive go-go dancer at the club where his friends are celebrating. Lucky might lose his job, the job he loves and he's excellent at, all because the media thinks he's for sale. When Michelin's agent suggests they pretend to date so that they can spin the PR nightmare into a cute story, both men figure saving their careers will be worth spending more time together.
But what starts off as a business arrangement is going to turn into something so much bigger and so much more inspiring, if the flames between the men don't destroy them first.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in the "Perfect Harmony" series, Treble Maker and Love Me Tenor, so I very much looked forward to reading this. It took me a little while to get into it, though I can't say for sure why. This book has a very different feeling than the last two. I understand why it's part of the "Perfect Harmony" series as Michelin is such an essential side character in the previous two books, but it has slightly different themes and a different tone.
It's hard to explain why I feel that way. But where at least one of the main characters was in the closet for most of the previous two books, these two spend the book "out." Maybe it's the age difference since Michelin comes across as older than the boys in the previous two books. Maybe it's because it's my favorite trope of all time, the "fake relationship" plot where the others weren't. Maybe it was a combination of things, but it took me a little while to adjust my expectations for the book since I'd had in mind that it would be similar to the last two.
Those differences are not bad differences. Now, as I just mentioned, the whole fake dating thing is my absolute most favorite type of romantic plot, so it's possible I'm a little biased, but I found "All Note Long" to be an engrossing, sexy, heart-squealing read.
I knew from the last two books that Michelin would eventually get his happily ever after (at least I had hoped so!), but when I envisioned someone for him, well that person was nothing like Lucky. I have rarely been happier to be wrong. Lucky is absolutely the person Michelin needed. Some of my favorite parts were the moments Lucky understood how desperate Michelin's heart was for affection, and how much Lucky wanted to give that care.
To say these two got off to a rocky start would be an understatement, but immediately they both feel compelled to take care of each other, and they quickly become a safe harbor together. And it's absolutely necessary because the world is battering them from all sides.
They're so different in so many ways, but they fit in the best, sweetest ways. I could never have hoped for a better, if surprising, resolution to the "Perfect Harmony" series.
But what starts off as a business arrangement is going to turn into something so much bigger and so much more inspiring, if the flames between the men don't destroy them first.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in the "Perfect Harmony" series, Treble Maker and Love Me Tenor, so I very much looked forward to reading this. It took me a little while to get into it, though I can't say for sure why. This book has a very different feeling than the last two. I understand why it's part of the "Perfect Harmony" series as Michelin is such an essential side character in the previous two books, but it has slightly different themes and a different tone.
It's hard to explain why I feel that way. But where at least one of the main characters was in the closet for most of the previous two books, these two spend the book "out." Maybe it's the age difference since Michelin comes across as older than the boys in the previous two books. Maybe it's because it's my favorite trope of all time, the "fake relationship" plot where the others weren't. Maybe it was a combination of things, but it took me a little while to adjust my expectations for the book since I'd had in mind that it would be similar to the last two.
Those differences are not bad differences. Now, as I just mentioned, the whole fake dating thing is my absolute most favorite type of romantic plot, so it's possible I'm a little biased, but I found "All Note Long" to be an engrossing, sexy, heart-squealing read.
I knew from the last two books that Michelin would eventually get his happily ever after (at least I had hoped so!), but when I envisioned someone for him, well that person was nothing like Lucky. I have rarely been happier to be wrong. Lucky is absolutely the person Michelin needed. Some of my favorite parts were the moments Lucky understood how desperate Michelin's heart was for affection, and how much Lucky wanted to give that care.
To say these two got off to a rocky start would be an understatement, but immediately they both feel compelled to take care of each other, and they quickly become a safe harbor together. And it's absolutely necessary because the world is battering them from all sides.
They're so different in so many ways, but they fit in the best, sweetest ways. I could never have hoped for a better, if surprising, resolution to the "Perfect Harmony" series.