Reviewer's Rating:
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5.0Overall score
Welcome to Rainbow Key – held together by love, family, and sticky tape.
Joshua’s Rainbow By Victoria Sue
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Released: February 20, 2018
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Rainbow Key, Book 1
Rainbow Key – an idyllic island retreat off the west coast of Florida. Think wedding destination, white sandy beaches, lurve… except at the moment Joshua is struggling to pay the electricity bill, they’ve no paying customers, and even if they did they can’t afford the repairs from the devastating hurricane that struck three years ago – and to top it off they have to take in Daniel, a grumpy businessman who has been ordered by his doctor to take some time off before he has a heart attack from too much stress.
Funnily enough, Daniel owns a very expensive hotel chain that has been trying to buy the island for the past two years. Not that Joshua knows that yet, and boy are sparks gonna fly when he thinks he’s been set up.
Of course, sparks of a different kind are also soon flying between them.
Then there’s Matt who just got let out of prison, Charlie who ran away from home, and Ben, a famous model until a devastating house fire destroyed his face.
Welcome to Rainbow Key – held together by love, family, and sticky tape.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A wonderful start to a new series!
Once again, Victoria Sue’s wonderful prose had my emotions all over the place. I laughed and cried and felt lots of things in between the laughter and tears.
Daniel is a successful businessman but his health is suffering and his doctor has ordered him to go for a vacation/rest on Rainbow Key. When he checks the place out before leaving he finds that his company has tried to purchase the island in the past.
Josh/Joshua was given the task of trying to run the hotel on Rainbow Key as self-supporting after the owner died. He had two years and they were almost up. There is no way he will be able to keep the hotel from being sold.
When Daniel and Josh meet there is a spark of attraction but Josh has a terrible inferiority complex about his looks and Daniel is 20 years older than Josh and feels that there is no way that such an attractive young man could be interested in someone as old as he is. Both Josh and Daniel are keeping big secrets from each other that they feel will cause the other to want to run from a relationship.
These two have quite a few obstacles to overcome on the way to their HEA but I always trust Victoria Sue to get her men there. This story had me reading way into the early morning. With 40% of the book left to read at 4:00 A.M. I finally had to put it aside to sleep but I picked it back up first thing after I woke up and didn’t stop until I was finished.
Joshua’s Rainbow touched my heart in so many ways. Josh has assembled a cadre of misfits who live with him on Rainbow Key. They are people who needed rescuing, just like he did 5 years ago, and he will do just about anything to keep them all safe and together.
I have learned so much from reading M/M romance books and they have helped me to become a better, more accepting person. I grew up among people with various physical disabilities, which taught me tolerance but I never knew much about other types of disabilities and had no exposure to members of the gay community (at least not that I knew of). Reading stories like Joshua’s Rainbow has broadened my knowledge and taught me to look beyond the obvious when meeting new people.
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O Factor: Scorcher
Victoria Sue fell in love with love stories as a child when she would hide away with her mom’s library books and dream of the dashing hero coming to rescue her from math homework. She never mastered math but carried on her love affair with her heroes. Loves reading and writing about gorgeous boys loving each other the best—especially with a paranormal twist—but always with a happy ending. Is an English northern lass currently serving twenty to life in Florida—unfortunately, she spends more time chained to her computer than on a beach.
Loves to hear from her readers and can be found most days lurking on Facebook where she doesn’t need factor 1000 sun-cream to hide her freckles..
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