Genre: Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Demi, Gay
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
Cake & Cocktails is a steamy, M/M age-gap romance featuring a grumpy teddy bear of a bar owner and a quirky baker just looking for love, acceptance, and a forever family.
Henry is well-aware he’s a bit of a grump. Outside of his passion for running the Riggs Family Roadhouse, and a precious few close friends and family, Henry doesn’t need anything—or anyone—else. But when a mysterious young man walks into the bar, Henry finds himself obsessed with making sure the blue-eyed beauty is taken care of.
Determined to get far, far away, Jack fled his nightmarish home life with barely a hint of a plan. Five hundred miles later, the small town of Haven Grove might just hold the perfect recipe for healing Jack’s wounded heart. Maybe he’ll stay a while, especially if the cuddly bear of a man behind the bar keeps plying him with food, kindness, and sweet smiles.
Henry just wants to help the newcomer get back on his feet. Instead, for whatever reason, his interfering heart is mixing up a different plan. Jack doesn’t know how he could leave when Haven Grove has all the ingredients for his happily ever after, but do Jack and Henry have what it takes to bake up their very own perfect slice of love?
The Review
Cake and Cocktails is the second book in “The Men of Haven Grove” series and follows on from Peaches and Cream with an overlap in the time frame. as the Rigg’s brothers find love. In Cake and Cocktails, it’s Henry Rigg’s turn when he gets the chance to solve the mystery of who the trash bandit is. In the process of which he meets Jackson Garner, who becomes someone very important to him and the Riggs Family Roadhouse.
Jackson Grayson, or Jack, is escaping from a life he does not want or worse when he rolls up in Haven Grove. The last thing he expected was to find a place to put down roots and make his dreams come true, but with Henry’s support, that’s what begins to shape up. There are clouds on the horizon, but they prove to be nothing they cannot weather. And there’s lots of cake and cocktails.
A lovely love story, with more fun and excitement than you’d expect when Jack’s past catches up with him.
The Reviewer
Tony is an Englishman living amongst the Welsh and the Other Folk in the mountains of Wales. He lives with his partner of thirty-six years, four dogs, two ponies, various birds, and his bees. He is a retired lecturer and a writer of no renown but that doesn’t stop him enjoying what he used to think of as ‘sensible’ fantasy and sf. He’s surprised to find that if the story is well written and has likeable characters undergoing the trails of life, i.e. falling in love, falling out of love, having a bit of nooky (but not all the time), fending off foes, aliens and monsters, etc., he’ll be happy as a sandperson who has just offloaded a wagon of sand at the going market price. As long as there’s a story, he’s in. He aims to write fair and honest reviews. If he finds he is not the target reader he’ll move on.
