I'll admit I approached this one with some trepidation... I wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't really want to have to read about a geeky professor fumbling his way into a gay relationship.

Well, lucky for me, I was totally wrong. Yes, Henry was a brain, and while outwardly might have seemed a bit of a geek, underneath it all was a very strong, sexy personality.

And NIck? Well let's just say that J.M Cartwright managed to again stay away from the stereotypical dumb jock-like character and instead gives us a sexy man who is trying to make the best of everything life has thrown at him.

The relationship that builds feels so real. The ups and downs. The interfering influences of family members. And simply the different approaches to life in general. But it's a great story to watch unfold.

This story again shows me why I truly enjoy reading this author's work! ( )

Got tired of the too dumb to be anything but a mechanic crap. Had to read in several short bursts to complete. ( )

This was a nice, pleasantly enjoyable read about opposites attracting. MC Nick, an auto mechanic, and MC Henry, a robotics researcher, find themselves on a date which leads to mind blowing sex, which leads to a relationship. The relationship is very one-sided for most of the book and anchored by the sex, but does level out towards the end. The one-sidedness did throw me off a bit and frustrated me enough to knock a star off, giving the book a 3 star rating. The reason for the final 4 star rating is because we get an epilogue, which I loved and put a nice big bow on top to make it all pretty and complete.

Yes, I can recommend this book to M/M romance fans. The sex was pretty fucking hot, with just enough D/s to label the book BDSM, but the author makes you wait a really long time for the emotional payoff. Some will say it is well worth the wait, but I grew frustrated. ( )

I really wanted to like this book because it touches on a lot of themes that warm my heart. It’s about family, and communication, and two very different people who should fill each other’s fundamental needs. But the main characters were so horribly written that I had to wonder why the writer was straining so much.

Nick Shelton is a thirty-something gay man who thinks of himself as a stupid mechanic even though he’s running the auto shop handed down from his grandfather to his father and now him. He’s kept up with modern computer technology to make the place a profitable business.

Nick owns his own home on a number of acres in upstate Michigan near Chicago where he lives with his father whom he took in when the widowed older man’s health got bad. He’s also taking care of his nephew after Nick’s negligent sister dropped him off when the boy was twelve. Plus Nick houses two abandoned dogs and employs a garage full of mechanics.

When Nick’s main competition folds his shop, Nick meets robotics researcher Henry Travis, the “brainy” of the title. In his early forties, Henry has had a number of liaisons, but no permanent boyfriend. When he takes his classic car in for service, however, he immediately falls for Nick.

This is a bit of a puzzle that’s never really explained in the book, especially since most of the time Nick speaks and acts like a teenage drama queen. Like. Oh. My. God.

Read the rest of my review at AAR: http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=9535 ( )

I have to be sincere saying I picked this book for the title that seemed funny and for the assumption I was to read a quite ordinary romance balancing the blue collar lover with the white one. That is not actually what I got and the change was unexpected but good.

Nicholas “Nick” is a classic car mechanic, but that doesn’t mean he is some high-specialized guy with some geeky training; he inherited the garage from his father, and yes, he did some training, but he is basically a down-to-earth type, who loves to work with his hands and who has no issue at all with being gay… maybe the only trouble is that he is off the dating pool for too long he cares to admit. But recently his life got sidetracked by his sister leaving her teenager soon with him and his aging father coming to live with them, basically to take care of them but ending with the one being in need of care.

Through his job, Nick meets Henry, a super clever brainy scientist, not used to date, but like Nick not having an issue at all admitting he is gay; on the contrary, when he meets Nick he is the one doing the first move, something Nick wouldn’t dare due to their different social status. That was the nice novelty, while Nick is the blue collar man, he is not for that the “top” or the strongest in their relationship. Even if Henry is quiet and controlled, he is the one who has the upper hand, in and out the bedroom. But again, not in the ordinary way like the Master type, the one weighting his brain where his body cannot outwin the counterpart. Henry is stronger because he is more confident, more sure of who he is and what he wants.

I liked the little faults in Nick, how he was obviously not ready to take care of a teenager, how he wasn’t able to read him, but not in a mean way, simply for inexperience. Same apply to his way to approach a relationship, again doing a lot of mistakes. But instead of bringing him down to my eyes, that was exactly the reason why I liked it, a lot.

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