The Sunny Side By Lily Morton, Performed by Joel Leslie
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Fashion models, grumpy/sunshine, opposites attract</p
Released: Audio: June 11, 2023; eBook: Sept 6, 2022
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: The Model Agency, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs, 37 mins / 374 pages
Cover Design: Natasha Snow Designs
Jonas Durand is successful, rich, and controlled. He owns a prestigious modelling agency and has the world at his fingertips, but a turbulent childhood has taught him to be focused and never deviate from a plan.
Dean Jacobs threatens that stance. He’s one of the world’s most sought-after supermodels, but he’s also laidback and lighthearted and free in a way that Jonas has never quite managed.
Dean has always been interested in Jonas and has never made any secret of his admiration, but from the beginning, Jonas put him in a neat little box labelled, “Don’t touch,” turned the key, and never looked back.
However, the universe seems determined to thwart Jonas’s plans. Over the course of one hot summer, the two men come together, and Jonas’s well-ordered life becomes something a whole lot wilder.
Moving from the glamorous worlds of London and Paris Fashion Weeks to the sleepy South of France, Jonas finds himself liberating partridges, chasing his supermodel, and falling in love.
From bestselling author, Lily Morton, comes a romantic comedy set in the fast-paced and snarky world of modelling. This is the first book in the Model Agency series.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Such a sweet story and a great audio performance!
I read The Sunny Side almost a year ago when it was first published and I loved it. Now I’ve loved it all over again while listening to Joel Leslie’s marvelous performance of this wonderful book. He uses unique voices for each character and it is easy to distinguish one from another.
This is another great romantic comedy, with a side of serious, by Lily Morton. Jonas Durand is way too serious all of the time. Super model Dean Jacobs helps to lighten him up and Jonas isn’t sure what’s hit him.
I loved everything about this book. I even loved it when Jonas was a complete a-hole because I knew that he would eventually realize what a jerk he’d been to Dean and then come groveling. Jonas’ daughter, Ruby, is a gem and she added a lot to this story.
The Sunny Side is a thoroughly enjoyable grumpy/sunshine story. I LOL’d more than once while listening to it and had to stop and play portions out loud for my hubby because he wanted to know what was so funny. I’m looking forward to reading more in this series. I hope that Pip gets his own book!
Performance: ♥♥♥♥♥
Story: ♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
I climb the stone steps to the police station and, after letting myself in, I blink at the cacophony that greets me. The waiting room is full of people sitting or standing, and the air is thick with the sound of different languages being spoken at high volume.I push through the crowd and stand behind an old lady speaking to the duty officer. Her voice is cultured, and she’s a little out of place here. I wonder what’s drawn her to a police station in Charing Cross at midnight.
“No, you must understand I do not want to press charges,” she says shrilly. “The hotel was completely wrong to ring for the police. It was just high jinks amongst young men. They were letting off steam.”
“Madame, they are not kettles,” the officer says, unimpressed.
The lady looks around for support and catches my eye. “Men,” she says.
I nod, heartily concurring. I deal with them on a daily basis, and whoever said that women were the deadlier of the species obviously never ran a modelling agency.
She turns back to the policeman. “So, I wish for him to be released immediately. It’s a travesty of justice.” She nods regally at him and stalks away to a seat.
He sighs. “It was a hotel brawl. He’s not Sean Connery in The Rock,” he mutters. He straightens as I step forward. “Sorry, sir. How can I help you?”
“I’m here for Dean Jacobs,” I say briskly, checking my watch. “I understand he was brought in an hour ago.”
“Oh god. Not you too.”
I frown at him. “Pardon?”
“You can join his fan club over there,” the policeman says. He gestures at the old woman who was just speaking to him. She’s now watching a man blowing bubbles with a dachshund dressed as a clown perched on his lap. The dog looks like he’s pretending this isn’t happening to him.
To celebrate the audio release of The Sunny Side, we are giving you a chance to win your choice of any book from Lily’s backlist! Three winners will be chosen!
Lily is a bestselling gay romance author. She writes love stories filled with heat and humour.
She lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she got her Kindle.
Lily has spent her life with her head full of daydreams, and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else would she get to spend her time with hot and funny men?
She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – Chocolate Baileys.
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