New Release Review: Counterpoint by J.E. Birk

Counterpoint By J.E. Birk

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Opposites attract, best friend’s brother</p

Released: September 8, 2022

Publisher: Heart Eyes Press

Series: In Vino Veritas, Book 2

Length: 297 pages

Cover Design: Christine Coffey

Synopsis

One playboy. One perfectionist. So many secrets.

I’m considered the biggest playboy in Burlington, Vermont. The party boy. The guy who lives in the moment and makes decisions with no thought for the future. But people don’t know my past. They don’t know why I make the choices I do. Even my best friend doesn’t know the truth about me. Actually, there are a lot of things he doesn’t know…like the fact that I had a one night stand with his brother last year.

Did I mean to hook up with Aaron? Um, no. Mistakes were made, okay? But unlike most of my mistakes, this one has lasting consequences. Aaron works at the law firm where circumstances are forcing me to be their errand boy. Now we see each other every day. Aaron’s such a nervous wreck he keeps tripping over the copy machine. I’m surprised he hasn’t ended up in traction yet.

He and I are opposites in almost every way. He’s got a GPA higher than Mount Mansfield, and I’m barely going to graduate college. He grocery shops with a spreadsheet, and I’ve got YOLO tattooed on my body. But Aaron sees things in me that no one else does, and I see things in him he doesn’t see in himself. Before I know it, we’re sharing late-night office picnics, evenings out at the bar, and long, hot afternoons on my boat. I’m having the best summer of my life, but there’s no way this can end well. My bff will kill me if he ever finds out how thoroughly I’ve corrupted his brother…

Counterpoint is an opposites-attract forbidden romance featuring an incense-filled law firm, meddling friends, and angst and humor in (mostly) equal parts. It stars Jeremy Everett and Aaron Morin, who first appeared in the Vino and Veritas story Booklover, but Counterpoint is a standalone novel.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I loved this book!

Booklover, from last year’s Vino & Veritas series, was the first J.E. Birk book I read. I loved it so I was really happy to learn that she was writing another book – Counterpoint – in this new “world of True North” series called In Vino Veritas. We met many of the characters in Counterpoint in Booklover but you don’t need to have read that book to enjoy this one.

Jeremy and Aaron hooked up last year when Aaron was going through a difficult time and it was never supposed to happen again. Then Aaron and Jeremy end up working in the same law firm in the summer and things just happen again.

I loved these two characters. On the surface it seems like they couldn’t be more different. Jeremy is the college playboy, hooking up with other guys and gals; gender doesn’t matter to him. He has a definite YOLO attitude. He has very good reasons for the way he is living his life but he hasn’t shared those reasons, not even with his closest friends. When he finally told Aaron and it felt like a weight was lifted off of his shoulders.

Aaron had a very difficult summer internship last year and it really shook his confidence about his chosen career in law. He was so ashamed that he never told anyone what happened, not even his closest friend at law school. He’s got a clerkship for the summer in a Vermont law firm near his home town and is shocked when he finds out the Aaron is also working there this summer.

This story broke my heart in places but everything was back in place by the end of the book. I shed a few tears but there were also some lighthearted moments. I was intrigued by a few new characters that were introduced and I hope they show up in other books in this new series. It was really great to be back in the Vino & Veritas world.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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J.E. Birk

J.E. Birk was raised in Vermont and is now adulting in Colorado with intermittent success. She is a long-time lover of stories, and she writes and reads in worlds where imperfect characters find their happily ever after.

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