Recent Release Review: Misdemeanor by C F White

Misdemeanor By C F White

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: July 2, 2021 (re-release)

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Responsible Adult, Book 1

Length: 255 pages

Cover Design: KAM Design

Synopsis

Life isn’t always responsible.

After his mother tragically dies and his deadbeat father goes off the rails, nineteen-year-old Micky is left to care for his disabled little brother. Juggling college, a dead-end job and Flynn’s special needs means Micky has to put his bad-boy past behind him and be the responsible adult to keep his brother out of care. He doesn’t have time for anything else in his life.

Still scarred from a past relationship that went bad, Dan’s not looking to complicate his life. Everything tells him he should stay away from Micky but he’s powerless in the face of his overwhelming attraction to his newest staff member. Especially when he begins to peel off Micky’s layers to reveal the true man beneath the façade.

As their attraction builds, revealing more of themselves to one another, each is faced with a stark question: Can Micky allow himself to follow his heart, and can Dan risk falling in love with someone so tempestuous?

“Amazingly gritty and raw, it flays you.” Pride Publishing editor’s choice.

Misdemeanor is the first book in the Responsible Adult trilogy and is a re-release of the previously published version by Pride. It has been edited with new content added.

Author note: Potential triggers include references to suicide, physical assault on a minor, criminal behaviour and bullying of a disabled child.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Gritty and Real; I Loved It.

I have to get this out of the way first but please don’t stop reading. This is book one of a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger but the other books are available for preorder. Book two will release in early August and book three in early September. Since this is a re-release of the series you can be confident that the next two books are coming. I don’t mind cliffhangers if I know up front what I’m getting into.

I haven’t been reading books by C F White that long, just a little over a year, but every one of them has been a five-star read for me. Her District Line series really hooked me and I think I’ve read everything of hers since then.

Misdemeanor grabbed me right from the start and didn’t let go. I actually spent the entire day doing nothing but read this book. Use the “Look Inside” feature on Amazon to find out why this story is so special to the author (hint: she has a child with the same condition as Flynn). I don’t know how parts of this story could be any more authentic than to be written by someone with first-hand knowledge and experience with a child like Flynn.

Micky wasn’t a good guy growing up but he loves Flynn more than anything and is trying his best to be a better man and raise him right. He’s bisexual but not out; he can’t risk losing his best friend who helps him with Flynn.

Dan hires Micky to work in the grocery where he’s a manager. In spite of Micky’s past misdeeds Dan believes that he has truly changed and wants to give him a chance. The bad thing for Dan is the attraction he feels for Micky, his subordinate.

Micky’s brother, Flynn, is a delight and often adds some much-needed levity to a story that is pretty intense and heartbreaking in places. Dan and Micky both have things in their past that they need to work through and their journey to their HEA isn’t going to come easy.

This is a story that will stick with me for a while and I can’t wait to read the next one: Hard Time coming August 5th.

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About Author

Brought up in a relatively small town in Hertfordshire, C F White managed to do what most other residents try to do and fail—leave.

Studying at a West London university, she realised there was a whole city out there waiting to be discovered, so, much like Dick Whittington before her, she never made it back home and still endlessly search for the streets paved with gold, slowly coming to the realisation they’re mostly paved with chewing gum. And the odd bit of graffiti. And those little circles of yellow spray paint where the council point out the pot holes to someone who is supposedly meant to fix them instead of staring at them vacantly whilst holding a polystyrene cup of watered-down coffee.

Eventually she moved West to East along that vast District Line and settled for pie and mash, cockles and winkles and a bit of Knees Up Mother Brown to live in the East End of London; securing a job and creating a life, a home and a family.

After her second son was born with a rare disability, C F White’s life changed and it brought pen back to and paper after having written stories as a child but never had the confidence to show them to the world. Now, having embarked on this writing journey, C F White can’t stop.

So strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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