Willette Archer has a secret—though some would argue how well kept it actually is. As right-hand woman and best friend to the owner of Bird’s Eye Tattoo Studio, her job has become her whole life. So, she occupies her days with shop decisions to avoid her disappointing dating life.
Of course, that might also have something to do with her two-decade old infatuation with her aforementioned best friend’s older brother.
Derek Tanner is at a loss—with basically everything. His apartment lease is up, most of his belongings are somewhere in storage, and the good doctor has been pulling extra shifts at the hospital due to lack of staff. So, yeah. His life is chaos. Thanks to these wonderful circumstances, dating is nowhere on his radar.
When his little brother suggests he stay in Willette’s spare room for the time being, he’s both grateful and hesitant. Sure, he grew up with Will too, but they’ve never been as close—let alone in close quarters.
It doesn’t take very long for Doctor Derek to start seeing Will in a new light. This makes him think perhaps he should be examined. Will, on the other hand, is this close to feigning injury just so he’ll touch her already.
When boundaries are crossed and relationships are finally taken to the next level, will Willette get exactly what she’s been hoping for since childhood, or will her fantasy be forever ruined?
***4 Stars***
After meeting the crew of Bird’s Eye in Hawk, I knew I wanted/needed more of all of them, it didn’t really matter which order, I just wanted more, but I cannot deny that I was very happy that Will’s aka Willette’s book was up next. And this baby took me on one heck of a ride. I was sweet, smexy and frustrating as all get out, but I couldn’t stop turning the pages to until I was certain that Will and Derek would get their HEA (together of course).
I cannot deny that I loved Will and Derek. Both are good people who love those they cal their own hard and will do what needs to be done to help them out, but boy do they both have some major insecurities to work through. At times they drove me a little batshitcrazy, but they also made them both relatable as well as likeable.
As for their journey to their HEA. Overall, it was a lot of fun to watch them finally get to know each other outside of being Hawk’s BFF or Hawk’s brother and they actually found that they had more in common than they knew. The big road block in their journey wasn’t unexpected, but it was frustrating, and while I would have liked a tinsy bit more groveling, I cannot deny that I liked how everything turned out for them.
This was a great addition to the series. It was engaging and I enjoyed the dual first person POV’s, even when they got to having conversations with themselves in their heads aka monologuing. There were a few situations that I wish we’d gotten a little more of, but I did like that this was a very character driven romance with very little outside drama. As for the Bird’s Eye crew. I loved catching up with Hawk, Drew and Ava and getting to know a little bit more about Avery and Hanson as a lead up to their books, which I think will be quite fun to read when they are finally released.
~ Copy provided by WFMS & voluntarily reviewed ~
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