Reviewer's Rating:
4
4.0Overall score
Hayden and Jesse are hot together!
The Husband Gambit By L.A. Witt
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Released: November 15, 2018
Publisher: Self-Published
Cover Design: L.A. Witt
Marry me for 1 year. Payment: $1.2 million.
Hayden Somerset is convinced the ad is a joke, but he responds anyway because, hello, $1.2 million. He’s broke, living in a tiny apartment with two roommates, and exhausted from praying his ancient car survives just one more week. His skyrocketing rent and crushing student loans aren’t helping either. At this point, there isn’t much Hayden wouldn’t do for that kind of cash.
The ad isn’t a joke. Jesse Ambrose is absolutely serious. His father, the charismatic patriarch of a powerful Hollywood dynasty, has his eye on politics, and he’s counting on California’s liberals and progressives to elect him. But Jesse knows what his father believes when cameras and voters aren’t around. As the election looms, he’ll do anything to force the man’s hand and show the public who Isaac Ambrose really is.
Anything, including marrying a stranger so his father will make good on his promise to disown Jesse if he ever takes a husband.
Now he just has to wait for his father to take the bait… and try not to accidentally fall in love with his fake husband.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Hayden and Jesse are hot together!
While this isn’t my favorite L.A. Witt book, I enjoyed The Husband Gambit a lot. It’s a good fake spouse/spouse for hire story and Hayden and Jesse had a lot of chemistry right off the bat.
There were a few places where I thought the story could maybe have been tightened up a bit but I never wanted to skip any pages. This is a romance trope that I really like and I enjoyed L.A. Witt’s take on it.
Jesse Ambrose has a seriously messed up family. Read the blurb for more details. Hayden has reservations about responding to Jesse’s ad for a husband for hire but he’s in a bad financial situation.
I like how Hayden, while agreeing to the husband for hire scheme because he’s desperate financially, doesn’t throw away all of his principles and draws the line at letting Jesse be too extravagant when giving him things.
While both Hayden and Jesse have complicated relationships with their siblings, Hayden has a great relationship with his parents; unfortunately, Jesse doesn’t. It was both painful and hard for me to understand how anyone’s family could be like Jesse’s but I’m sure it does happen in real life.
The Husband Gambit is a story that made me laugh (there are lots of lighter moments) and cry; just the way I like most of my books to be.
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L.A. Witt is an abnormal M/M romance writer who has finally been released from the purgatorial corn maze of Omaha, Nebraska, and now spends her time on the southwestern coast of Spain. In between wondering how she didn’t lose her mind in Omaha, she explores the country with her husband, several clairvoyant hamsters, and an ever-growing herd of rabid plot bunnies. She also has substantially more time on her hands these days, as she has recruited a small army of mercenaries to search South America for her nemesis, romance author Lauren Gallagher, but don’t tell Lauren. And definitely don’t tell Lori A. Witt or Ann Gallagher. Neither of those twits can keep their mouths shut…
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