Genre: Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay
Reviewer: Lucy
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About The Book
Ben Stephens adores his daughter, loves making furniture, and is slowly but surely healing from a traumatic past. He’s even almost positive he’s okay with his only child getting married. The tropical destination wedding is outside of his comfort zone, but he can deal with it. After all, it’s for his baby girl, and it’s only two weeks.
Reggie Ward is proud of his son, knows working in theater is his calling, and has learned to cope with his anxiety-fueled ups and downs. Leaving his job and routine for his son’s wedding may send him into a downward spiral. The fact Ben, Mr. Dull and Uncultured himself, will also be on the trip has Reggie spiraling faster. But two weeks in paradise can’t be that bad, right?
Ben and Reggie get off on the wrong foot, but quickly realize they aren’t quite the nemeses they once thought they were. The gut-deep connection and fiery desire that sparks between the two men isn’t something either of them can ignore.
They spend their days adventuring through paradise and their nights exploring steamy kinks. How will Ben and Reggie deal with their island vacation coming to an end? Can either man face their prior lonely existence after they’ve had a taste of what life could be like?
Two Weeks in Paradise is an opposites-attract, forced proximity M/M romance between two widowers nearing fifty. This low-angst love story is perfect for fans of kinky steam mixed with sweet fluff.
Content Warning– this story has mentions of past terminal illness, death of a spouse, domestic abuse, and manipulation by religion. While the kink is on the lighter side, it does include- dirty talk, breeding, light nipple kink, light exhibitionist kink.
The Review
Get the snacks, settle in, and don’t forget to hydrate. Once you start this fabulous story, you’re going to be hooked until you’ve finished. It has all the goodness: a well-written story, a nice twist on the forced proximity trope, and delicious characters with a lot of sexual fantasies to explore.
The writing was excellent. From the first word, I was pulled into the story of two single fathers traveling to their kids’ destination wedding in a tropical paradise resort. Reggie and Ben each have enough baggage to start their own luggage companies. Neither is overly fond of the other. But forced to share a king sized bed in a tropical resort, they confront their own preconceived notions and grapple with their own insecurities.
The characters were gorgeously written, so their angsts and worries are real and relatable. The story flowed so well, holding my interest until the last word.
And the sex! Delicious fantasies, dirty talk, soft romantic moments…there’s a lovely range of hotness along with the emotional growth the characters experience as they spend their Two Weeks in Paradise discovering one another. I also really liked that Reggie and Ben were in their late forties, because I just can’t get enough of men who find love later in life.
Two Weeks in Paradise was delightful. It grabbed me from the beginning and kept me reading until I’d finished. The characters were real and relatable, the story was well-written, and the sex scenes were full of delicious hotness. This was my first story by author AD Ellis but will not be my last.
The Reviewer
I’m an avid reader who loves pretty much all genres except math textbooks. As a kid, my parents exposed me to everything from fairies, hobbits, and dragons to the biographies of interesting people around the world, interspersed with poetry, plays, and music. Into adulthood, I spent a lot of years with my nose buried in various textbooks. Now, I read whatever grabs my fancy.
