Reviewed by Susan65
Title: Against Reason
Author: Scarlet Blackwell
Heroes: Darius and Jake Morgan
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 109 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Available at: Samhain Publishing & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads
Blurb: He lost his heart once. Is it too damaged for love to find it again?
In the five years since the love of his life abandoned him at the altar, Jake Morgan hasn’t left his house. The locals in this small, English town have dubbed him “Mr. Havisham”, but he’s too preoccupied wrestling his demons to care about Dickensian comparisons.
Forced to admit he’s losing the battle to keep up his large estate alone, he reluctantly places an advert for help. The striking young man who answers his call shakes him to the core.
When Darius answers the ad for the position at the mysterious mansion, the bitter, lonely master of the house tugs at his heartstrings. Setting aside his own run of bad luck, Darius batters at Jake’s emotional walls with kindness and determination that defy all attempts to drive him away.
Just as tendrils of new love begin to intertwine, though, a terrible voice from the past intrudes. And threatens to drive Jake back into the shadows where Darius can never reach him.
Review:
Jake was a hard man to like at first. I thought he was weak and needed to move on, but the more I got to know him the more I wanted to kill Marc. And when you finally meet Marc you want him dead. He was pure garbage and Jake wasted five years pining for that waste of human flesh. Marc literally destroyed everything inside Jake, made him a recluse and the town joke. The depths of the depression with which Jake fell into was staggering and you fear the hole may be too deep to climb out from. Enter Darius!
Darius is anxious for a break. He is one step away from being homeless and needs a job in the worst way. What he didn’t expect was to find his new employer, Jake, as attractive as he did. Jake did absolutely nothing to make Darius think he was interested, as a matter of fact most men would take off in the opposite direction with the way Jake treated him. However, Darius is trapped…he needs the money and he wants Jake desperately. But how do you convince someone that you’re sincerely interested in them when they also know you’re desperate?
Jake has the worst self esteem, the absolute lowest opinion of himself, and zero trust in love or men. When he was left at the altar it was as if his life ended that day. Nothing changed except for him. Life went on without him. When you see what’s behind the dining room door you realize how much this man is lost, but why did he blame himself? Who knows, but Jake chose to lay blame at his own feet and suffered greatly for it.
It takes the entire book (thankfully it’s relatively short) but Jake learns to trust again, and learns to give love a chance again…with Darius.
As with all Scarlet Blackwell books, it’s not easy and it’s not pretty, but it is well written and just the way I like to read about my guys. Looking forward to seeing Jake and Darius in the future, I am hoping for a sequel…ummm, maybe not, knowing Ms. Blackwell she will tear them apart first and I’m not sure they could survive that.
Overall Impression: I Really Like It
*I received a copy of this book from the author in return for a fair and honest review.*
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