Series Review: Admiring Ash, Begging Ben, Challenging Chance by Anyta Sunday

23 September of 2018 by ButtonsMom2003

Love Letters Series By Anyta Sunday

I’m more than a little late in posting this so I want to apologize to Anyta Sunday for that before I get to the reviews (below). 

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: July 31, 2018

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Love Letters, Book 1-2-3

Series blurb:
Feisty. Nerdy. Sexy. Secretive.
Greenville has them all.
A small town with big hearts, Greenville awakens at the mercy of Millionaire Row, the wealthy neighborhood across the tracks from Poplar Low.
Bad-tempered boys meet cheeky lovers.
Colliding worlds spark a fire of emotion. Heat rages. Hearts mend. Love is lost. And found.
Love Letters are playful, sexy, contemporary M/M stories that can be read as standalones.
Welcome to Greenville. Come for the sexy boys. Stay for the HEA.

Admiring Ash
A is for Ash Heartford.
Adorable, strong, and independent.
Abandoned by his parents and attached to only one person—his little sister.
Attracted to River, the sultry man who saunters onto his doorstep with startling news.
Always yearning for more River, yet afraid to let him in.

Should he play it safe, or claim his legacy and risk losing his heart?
A is for Admiring Ash.
Tropes: Slow burn, virgin, one true love, happily ever after, related but not, hurt/comfort, forbidden love
Themes: Sudden inheritance, broken family, insta-dad

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

4 stars
Scorcher

I love Anyta Sunday’s books but I have to admit this one had me puzzled in places, kind of like I had missed something. But… I’m glad I kept reading it as the story got better and things made more sense to me. What really made this one work better for me was reading book two.

I think this story would have worked better if it had been fleshed out a little more with more detail given about events in the book. I usually love a novella length story but this one needed a bit more.

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Begging Ben
B is for Ben Spengler.
Brilliant. Bashful. Burned.
Brimming with desire for his BFF Landon, who is beyond compare.
But they aren’t the same Ben and Landon anymore. Not after what Landon did. And didn’t do.
Bitter about his unrequited love.
Bound by a night of drunken promises.

Will the chemistry between them change, or will Ben break first?
B is for Begging Ben.
Tropes: Pretend boyfriend, friends to lovers, virgin, brother-like, jealousy
Themes: Science, geek, alcohol induced oblivion

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

5 stars
Spicy

This book was so good and so much better than book one in this new series. I do think you need to read this series in order as this book refers to things in book one. Also, reading book two helped me to understand things that happened in book one a little better.

Landon messed up big time and his best friend, Ben, hasn’t hardly spoken to him in a year. They’re in Las Vegas for River and Ash’s stag party (the book never did say anything about their wedding) and Landon wants to get his best friend back so he does something very unconventional and when Ben finds out he isn’t happy.

This story has a lot of witty puns in it that remind me so much of other Anyta Sunday stories that I’ve loved. I also cried lots of tears for how both Ben and Landon felt. Ben has loved Landon forever but he can no longer standby and watch Landon date other men. Landon finally wakes up to how he feels about Ben but it may be too little, too late.

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Challenging Chance
C is for Chance Roosevelt-Sutton.
Chiseled jaw. Smug attitude. Wild ways.
Chained to his ego—or so everyone thinks. Except his personal assistant, Brook. He knows better.
Chance is challenged to make his father happy for once, but he needs Brook’s help.
Choosing honesty is too risky, so instead they choose secrecy.
Choked by their pasts, they dream of a better life . . . and
Charm each other into submission.

Will their pasts ruin what they have, or will they grow together?
C is for Challenging Chance.
Tropes: Alpha male, millionaire bad boy, athlete, help/comfort
Themes: Basketball, coming out

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

5 stars
Scorcher

Hands down the best of the first three books in Anyta Sunday’s Love Letters series of novellas. This is the kind of story that made me fall in love with her books.

Chance was such an a-hole in Admiring Ash and it seemed impossible that he could ever be redeemed. But, Anyta Sunday did such a wonderful job slowly turning around this reader’s opinion of him that he just might be my favorite former jerk of any book I’ve read this year.

Chance is a privileged, rich jerk but it’s all a cover. He so badly wants his father to be proud of him like he is of his younger brother, Danny. He also is in denial of his true self because he’s afraid that his father will disown him and cut off his allowance.

I love how this book slowly reveals the real Chance and how Brook helps him get his life turned around. Brook and Chance are so good together but it takes Chance a while to comes to terms with this and accept his true self. Brook’s Grandma is a hoot and I loved her character in this story; I hope we see her again in a future book in this series.

Another real gem of a story from Anyta Sunday.

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HEART-STOPPING SLOW BURN
A bit about me: I’m a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. I love to read and write stories with characters who slowly fall in love.

Some of my favorite tropes to read and write are: Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Clueless Guys, Bisexual, Pansexual, Demisexual, Oblivious MCs, Everyone (Else) Can See It, Slow Burn, Love Has No Boundaries.

I write a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy.

My books have been translated into German, Italian, French, and Thai.

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