Hard Time By C F White
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Released: August 5, 2021 (re-release)
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Responsible Adult, Book 2
Length: 220 pages
Cover Design: KAM Design
Love isn’t always responsible.
After Micky O’Neill is remanded in custody for breaching his court order, his already tempestuous relationship with Dan Peters is tested to the limits.
Having to battle their way through a court case that could end with Micky in jail, social workers breaking up the family home, and the return of Micky’s deadbeat father, it seems everything is set to destroy their relationship before it even had the chance to start.
With such high stakes involved, not just for Micky but for once-burned, twice-shy Dan, they both have to learn that falling in love isn’t always responsible.
This is the second book in the re released Responsible Adult Series. It has been edited with new content added to make for a new reader experience.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Another great book in this series!
Hard Time is the second book in the Responsible Adult series and you really need to read book one, Misdemeanor before you read it. While Hard Time doesn’t end on as much of a cliffhanger as book one did, the story won’t be complete until Reformed comes out in September.
Just like with book one, once I started reading this, I couldn’t put it down. I don’t really know where to start with my review. I’m afraid of saying too much and giving things away. Micky is in a bit of a pickle and in danger of losing custody of Flynn. Help comes from an unexpected place and it’s hard for Micky to accept it.
Micky and Flynn’s father shows up and creates a lot of problems. Dan has a bit of a confrontation with the manager of the grocery store where he works. Flynn has a melt-down that even Micky has trouble bringing him out of.
Hard Time tore me up the same way that Misdemeanor did but it also left me with hope that things will keep getting better for Micky and Flynn. Flynn is just so precious and how much Micky loves him really comes through in CF White’s writing.
Reading about Flynn’s condition has helped me to look at misbehaving kids differently. I really can’t imagine what it would be like to be out in public and have a child do the things that Flynn does in this book. I know that before reading this, I probably wouldn’t have been very understanding. I am humbled by the things I’ve learned from reading MM romance and how what I’ve learned has helped me to become a better person.
The love and support that Dan gives to Micky, even when other people chastise him for it, is something that everyone should have but real life often isn’t like that. Reading stories with characters like Micky and Flynn help me realize that my life really is pretty good.
Hard Time took me for another emotional ride and I can’t wait to read the final book when it comes out in September.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
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.
Studying at a West London university, she realised there was a whole city out there waiting to be discovered, so, much like Dick Whittington before her, she never made it back home and still endlessly search for the streets paved with gold, slowly coming to the realisation they’re mostly paved with chewing gum. And the odd bit of graffiti. And those little circles of yellow spray paint where the council point out the pot holes to someone who is supposedly meant to fix them instead of staring at them vacantly whilst holding a polystyrene cup of watered-down coffee.
Eventually she moved West to East along that vast District Line and 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 it brought pen back to and paper after having written stories as a child but never had the confidence to show them to the world. Now, having embarked on this writing journey, C F White can’t stop.
So strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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