Pre-release Review: Aussie Sun by C F White

26 March of 2023 by ButtonsMom2003

Aussie Sun By C F White

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Hurt/Comfort, Opposites Attract, Age-gap (over 20 years)

Releasing: March 31, 2023

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Flying Into Love, Book 4

Length: 290 pages

Cover Design: Kelly A. Martin, KAM Design

Synopsis

Can a splash of Aussie sun sway a retired MP to vote one last time…for love?

Retired English MP Jeffrey Gandy has had enough. Of people. Of politics. Of pursuing love. After a lifetime in the public eye, he’s on extended leave in Australia to renew his bond with his long-lost daughter.

Aussie swimming coach Hunter Ford has a race to win. This time he’s out of the pool, and fighting the developers determined to make him and his rescue animals homeless. Without the money to afford a lawyer, he’s no choice but to bury his head in the golden sand of his beloved bay.

When Jeffrey forms an unlikely friendship with his daughter’s swimming coach, the twenty-eight year age gap should be enough of a deterrent for him not to get involved, no matter how gorgeous the athlete with a heart of gold is.

Both Jeffrey and Hunter have been burned before, so trust doesn’t come as easy as their mutual attraction. But Jeffrey is meant to be in Australia for his daughter, not to chase young men as he’s reminded time again by his ex-wife.

Can Hunter make Jeffrey realise he’s allowed to fall in love too? And can he do it before Hunter’s persuaded away by someone else…someone who doesn’t have his best interests at heart?

Aussie Sun (Flying into Love #4) is a contemporary, low angst, slow-burn, Age-Gap, MM romance featuring a disgraced English MP hiding from his mistakes and a happy-go-lucky Aussie animal-lover with a desperate need to please.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Two hurting souls find each other.

Aussie Sun is so good! Jeffrey and Hunter have things in common but not so much in a good way. Hunter was burned by a man he didn’t know was married and Jeffrey hid his sexuality from his now ex-wife and had an affair with a man. Jeffrey has come to Australia to reconnect with his daughter and had no intention of falling for anyone, let alone his daughter’s swim coach.

There are many things I enjoyed about this story. One of them is that the unfortunate pandemic that affected the world over the last few years wasn’t ignored but it also wasn’t beat to death. The pandemic was one of the reasons that Jeffrey hadn’t seen his daughter recently. Now that he’s resigned from politics he wants to try and make up for all of the years he missed.

I love reading books set in countries other than the US. I like how the different variations on the English language gets me learning new words. I’m happy that I use an e-reader so that I can look up words as I read. I don’t want to put anyone off by thinking you won’t understand the words in context because you will. I just like to look them up so that I know more about the words.

Jeffrey and Hunter have to overcome a few obstacles – namely Hunter’s ex and Jeffrey’s daughter’s reaction to their relationship – but conflict nearly always makes for a good story. For me, this book had just the right amount and was relatively low angst.

Reader advisory – there are a lot of animals in this story including a snake and a somewhat funny scene with a spider.

The Flying Into Love books are connected only by theme so they can be read in any order. I’m looking forward to reading the next book: Jersey Royal, coming later this year!

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O Factor: Scorcher

Flying Into Love Series

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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.

She eventually 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 brought pen back to paper having written stories as a child but never the confidence to show them to the world. Now, having embarked on this writing journey, she can’t stop. So strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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