Shake Things Up

Love at Knockdown, Book Two

240 pages

English language

Published April 25, 2022 by LLC, Chaotic Neutral Press.

ISBN:
9781956128031

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5 stars (1 review)

Three people, one road trip, and so many queer feelings. A polyamorous romance about changing your life.

Allie and Matt's happy open relationship means they're both free to find hookups. When Allie gets duped by a date, though, she's found with someone else's cheating boyfriend. Ugh!

Meeting Noelle by helping her leave the guy isn't the night Allie expected, but after the women bond over drinks and a seriously dysfunctional tape gun, Allie's hesitant to say goodbye. It's weird; she doesn't normally like-like people who aren't Matt.

Matt's questioning whether he's entirely straight, and he hopes to find answers on his and Allie's impending road trip. But he's cool with bringing her new maybe-crush along, especially since he and Noelle keep finding things in common. And staring into each other's eyes.

Noelle lost her demanding job right before her boyfriend cheated, and she's looking for her next career move—preferably back …

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Decisions, Decisions

5 stars

It's always the characters with me. Noelle, Allie, and Matt - along with the ensemble casts - dragged me into this story and let me steep in the warm bath.

This niche lays so far outside of my normal realm, it might as well be written in another language. Parts of it might well be but I understood the meanings well enough to know this is a terrific story of love and lust, of decisions and doubt, of friends and lovers ... or friends who might become lovers ... or lovers who have friends.

Yes, there's some sex talk in here. There's also some pretty frank examples of consent, autonomy, and just play big-hearted warmth.

I loved it. Steamy bits and all.

Highly recommended.

Subjects

  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Fiction, gay