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    MANGA: Summer Switch

    April 7, 2020 / No Comments
    Summer Switch

    Summer Switch – Suzuki Tsuta

    Jiro and Ma-kun had been friend since they were little. When they were in Junior High Jiro kissed Ma-kun, Ma-kun just ignores it and treated it like it was a joke but they never talked since then. They grew up seperately, Jiro now a grown up 21yr. old came back home and Ma-kun is acting as if he’s been wanting to see Jiro back again and even invited him to go see the fireworks and then sparks flew the second time around!

    The cover is not doing justice to how cute the story is.

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    REVIEW: Risk Assessment by Parker St. John

    April 7, 2020 / 3 Comments
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    Cabrini Law: Risk Assessment – Parker St. John

    All they have left is their pride.

    Elliot Smith was once a hotshot attorney, but those days are long gone. A midlife crisis of conscience has left him with shattered confidence, abandoned by his former friends and scraping by at a legal aid clinic. When a smoking hot bad boy rescues him from the side of the road, Elliot is sure he doesn’t stand a chance.

    After a misspent youth boosting cars, Lucas Kelly runs his own garage and is finally getting his life back on track. He isn’t about to risk everything by daring to hope for something more, especially not with a man so far above his pay-grade.

    The heat between them is enough to have them questioning everything they thought they knew about themselves. But is explosive chemistry enough to keep them together when Elliot’s career threatens to drive them apart?


    Risk Assessment is the first book of Cabrini Law, a lawyer romance series featuring a justice league of attorneys out to defend the little guys. And fall in love.

    First of all, the MC’s name is Elliot Smith!!! It’s missing a T but still, Elliot Smith!

    So I wanted to like him immediately. And I did like him. He was that interesting mix of smarts, ruthlessness and naivety. As a lawyer, he was damn good at his job. He cares about his clients and goes the extra mile for them. He genuinely believes in people. Outside his professional life, whatever silver tongue he has at the courtroom gets all tied up in front of a hot guy. Which happens every time he talks to Lucas.

    All of the above would have been cute. What I didn’t like was how Elliot was made to look desperate and needy. I get being submissive but why is he the one always grovelling in front of Lucas. Especially when it was Lucas who said all those horrible things. Yes, this book has one big ugly fight. I wish it didn’t.

    Lucas Kelly was harder to like. I wanted to like him too. He’s an ex-con trying to make a better life for himself. He just bought the garage he used to work in. He’s on his last few probation meetings and is well on his way to becoming a free man. He’s charming and dominant but he also has an insecure side which reared its ugly head at the latter part of the story. Hence, the big fight.

    Majority of these two men’s issues revolved around the ‘I’m not good enough for him’ woes. This could have been resolved by talking. Instead, Lucas lashed out, hitting Elliot on spots where it hurt the most. He called his 40-year old boyfriend old. Meanwhile, Elliot received advice about self-worth from an unlikely source, his ex. Then went out of his way to grovel. I know this is the ‘going after what he wants’ side of Elliot but I really, really wanted Lucas to do the grovelling.

    These gripes aside, Risk Assessment is a good debut and worked really well as a series opener. It is, first and foremost, romance but I liked how the other aspects, such as Elliot’s professional life and his case on Julio, and Lucas’ strive for a normal life, was integrated into the main thread. I also liked how things came together at the end. And for a first book, the writing is great. It’s easy to read and held my attention from start to finish.

    The book also succeeded in introducing characters I would love to see more of. I’m excited to read about the other lawyers, like Miguel and especially Maksim. Maks is an arrogant bastard and he knows he’s brilliant enough to earn the right to be one. He’s a silver fox with a silver tongue. I know his story will be aaawe-some!

    If you like stories where lawyers are rescued by underwear models and mechanics are wooed by Beyonce, take a chance on Risk Assessment.

    Rating:
    3.5 Stars – that place between like and love

    Soundtrack: Longshot
    Artist: Catfish and the Bottlemen
    Album: The Balance

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    Go, ahead and tell me you got all you want
    Fiver says you’re wrong
    And I suppose you’ve come down to help me
    Move things along

    And we lapped it up and we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    But we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    ‘Cause we know this feeling all a little too well

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turned up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

    So yeah, go, ahead and tell me something real
    Come on, how’d you feel?
    And I suppose you’ve come down to help me
    Answer to the riddle
    To the riddle

    Why we laughed it off and we’re wise enough, who knows?
    How it goes to get me honey
    But we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    ‘Cause we know this feeling all a little too well

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turned up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

    And it’s by the by
    If it makes those nights fine
    We were side by side again
    And now, we’re all careless and loved up
    You know exactly how it goes
    When you’re giving us all kind of reason
    Thought I had to go
    Follow the heart I believe in, ’cause one of us must know
    When you’re giving us all kind of reason
    Thought I had to go
    Follow the heart I believe in, ’cause in the past it’s done me good
    So good, so good, so good

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turn up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turn up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

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