Studious By Leslie McAdam, Performed By Declan Winters
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Tropes: Rake/virgin, opposites attracts, office romance, love tutor
Released: Audio: May 31, 2024; eBook: Oct. 7, 2022
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: IOU, Book 2
Length: 7hrs, 10mins/70,000 words
Cover Design: Garrett Leigh, https://www.blackjazzdesign.com/
After a disastrous high school game of spin the bottle, I gave up trying to get a boyfriend and spent my time studying instead. Now I’m twenty-four, and I’m not only a virgin, I haven’t even been kissed.
When I meet Danny, a handsome legal hotshot, he catches my eye. Right before I trip on flat ground. Ugh.
He’s got a massive … reputation. He’s the most popular guy in the club, a total playboy with a new conquest every night. There’s no way he’d be interested in me.
But one night after I imbibe too much, he winds up taking care of me. And when I ask for his help with my travesty of a social life, he agrees to teach me how to be less awkward with men … if I let him document my progress so he can win a bet with his best friend.
Even though he’s just my love tutor and I’m just his apprentice, this starts to feel like more.
Too bad it can’t be anything but a high-level seminar in how to seduce someone else.
Studious is a sweet and sexy contemporary opposites-attract m/m romance about a suave attorney who’s scared to love and the shy, nerdy bookkeeper he’s teaching how to be a player. Cue makeover montage and a smoldering first kiss. These heroes most definitely are not falling in love. (Okay, heartwarming HEA guaranteed.)
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A sweet and sexy story.
I read Studious with my eyes back in 2022 – that’s about 700 books ago for me so listening to the audiobook allowed me to experience almost like a new-to-me story. This is the first audiobook I’ve listened to that Declan Winters has performed the full story (no co-narrator). His voice is very pleasant to listen to and I enjoyed listening to it very much. Below is what I said about the book when I first read it.
Studious is the second book in the IOU series but it can be read as a standalone. Characters from the first book only appear briefly in this story.
While there are several hot scenes in this book, overall, I felt it was really sweet. The characters were likeable, even Danny (the man slut) was very likeable. He never pretended to be anything other than what he was – a one-night-only hook-up guy. Alden was painfully awkward around people, especially men, and he desperately wants to find someone to have a relationship with.
This story really held my attention from start to finish. I enjoyed seeing Danny’s slow progression from a one-and-done guy to a man who cared deeply for Alden. Alden’s progression from a shy, awkward, nerdy young man to one with more self-confidence was also well done.
There was one passage that really tickled me. Early in the story Danny takes Alden home with him after he gets drunk at an office get together. The next morning Danny asked him how he feels and Alden replies: “I feel like someone put out a hit on me, but the hit man changed his mind halfway through and didn’t finish the job.”
When things started to heat up between Danny and Alden, Danny was still so careful with Alden, making sure that everything that happened between them was what Alden really wanted.
Story: ♥♥♥♥♥
Narration: ♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
IOU Series
Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two children. Leslie’s first published book, The Sun and the Moon, won a 2015 Watty, which is the world’s largest online writing competition. She’s gone on to receive additional literary awards and has been featured in multiple publications, including Cosmopolitan.com. Her books have been Top 100 Bestsellers on both Amazon and Apple Books. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men of your fantasies.
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