Review: Employing Patience by Saxon James
SYNOPSIS:
Art
When it comes to regrets, I have none. My life is perfect. I own a bar, work hard, party harder, and smother my niblings in all the love they deserve. I don’t need to settle down, as much as my sister might want me to.
But then Joey Manning walks into my office and leaves me all but begging to give him a job … and wanting to give him so much more.
The self-professed straight man is in my head and while I know that I need to move on from him, my body isn’t getting that message. It doesn’t help that Joey is a grade A flirt who can banter with the best of them.
I’ve never had regrets. Not until Joey Manning.
Joey
The bills keep piling up and the pressure to get my sisters through college before we’re evicted is always on the back of my mind. Whoever said life was for living, clearly forgot that living’s expensive.
My default mode is stressed AF and working myself to the bone, and there’s only one person who gives me a break from all that.
Art de Almeida.
My boss.
The one man I shouldn’t flirt with, but I can’t seem to stop. I want to get under his skin. To leave him panting for me. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing except that he thinks I’m straight, and I’ve never bothered to correct him.
I need this job.
But some days I worry that I need Art more.
REVIEW:
*Book Received in Exchange for Honest Opinion/Review*
This was probably one of my most anticipated reads of the year…and it did not disappoint. I have been obsessed with Art and Joey’s simmering banter and slow-burn sexual tension since meeting them several books ago. To say I was thrilled they were finally getting story is an understatement.
I can’t just pinpoint one thing that makes this story so great, its a combination of everything perfectly coming together. But first to grab my attention was the banter; endless sarcastic quips, teasing, flirting…its been going on for months and Art and Joey are reaching their breaking points. I could not get enough of the will they or won’t they vibes even though we all know they most certainly will! All the banter is foreplay and when these two finally cave, well lets just say it even had me blushing.
I adored Joey’s confidence, he may be a bi-baby but the man isn’t letting that hold him back and there was just something so sexy about that. Art and his endless heart and depth (even if he tries to hide it) had my Grinchy heart growing three sizes. I was a little nervous about how the boss and employee dynamic would play out but that is a non-issue and I love Saxon for that.
The drama in the story was all personal, Joey struggling with his finances while raising his sisters. Art’s adorable niblings and the DMC group chat had me grinning from ear-to-ear. Needless to say, I finished reading the story and wanted to go back to the beginning and start all over again. Now can I please have Will and Keller’s story?
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