Rosalie's review:

Blue Water Bay is a long running series, with multiple books. However, being written by many authors, the reader still gets the pleasure of feeling like it’s all new and fresh, with the series connectedness I absolutely love. In this book, we meet Nat who has landed work on a TV series, Wolf’s Landing, as an extra that actually turned into a permanent role. Except having to care for his dad and his dependency on pain medication, life couldn’t be better. Having no one to help him care for him puts such a constant burden on Nat, but he tries to power through. Nat then finds out that gorgeous Solari, also a star on the show, has taken an interest in him. Could life be looking up even more for him?
Crash and burn! Nat is devastated to find that Solari’s interest isn’t romantic, much to his dismay. He does meet and befriend her assistant, however, Rafael, and many things become confusing to Nat. Nat doesn’t understand why he is attracted to Rafael. Is it because he’s there as a friend when he needed one? Or maybe there is more and a physical and sexual attraction between the two and he could be bi? Watching the two explore this newfound part of Nat’s life was interesting. Of course, this read isn’t all chocolate and flowers. There is some angst that keeps the readers on their toes, but made me like Nat and Rafael ever more. Good read!!

Another book in the Bluewater Bay Series that I loved, just reading the blurb on this one I wasn't sure how I felt about the book but I was pleasantly surprised by the book.

Nat was a heart breaking character, he had such a rough life, but he never seemed to give up hope while, Rafael on the other hand, seemed to have a very put together life. Even though the two came from different backgrounds, they were able to put aside their differences and really shine together.

The only that distracted me while I was reading the book is the spelling of Rafael's name changes throughout the book. Which just frustrates me, since that is something an editor should catch fairly easy, especially since a couple of them where within the same a sentence of each other. Besides this minor problem it was another great book.

One of my favorite on-going series, Bluewater Bay, is back with the sixteenth addition to its multi-authored ranks--No Small Parts, which was written by Ally Blue and is my first read from her. At twenty-six, Nathaniel Horn has spent half his life with just his father, his mother having passed away from cancer when he was a child and his older sister abandoning the family thirteen years ago. Working for his uncle may be the job his father considers a legitimate one, but Nat's dream of being an actor is what keeps him going. From being cast as an extra portraying a werewolf on the hit show Wolf's Landing, Nat is given the opportunity to become a regular and with lines to boot.

Taking care of his pain medication-addicted father has Nat carrying burdens he would rather keep to himself, but personal assistant Rafael Cortez reaches out, both a hand of friendship and a request that Nat be his lead actor in the independent movie he's written and he'll be directing. From being friends, the two soon indulge in their quiet attraction to one another. Rafael is slowly breaking through some of Nat's walls, and their feelings for each other grow. But when Nat's life is thrown into devastating chaos, will everything he and Rafael have built on be knocked to the ground, replaced by Nat's ironclad defenses, or will Nat realize that he no longer has to shoulder this alone?

I loved this sixteenth installment and consider it one of my favorites. There's angst courtesy of Nat and his situation at home with his father, who he loves but is often at his wit's end with because of his use of his four-year-old injury as a way to continue his addiction to prescription pain meds. His frustration and anger towards but his father and his sister are real and not overly dramatized, so it's easy to either empathize or sympathize with what he's going through. We see Nat allow himself to get close to not just Rafael but to other people who were part of Wolf's Landing. There's true growth in the character and he was the biggest reason why I was invested in this latest book.

For as much as I felt for Nat and could relate to some of his burdens, Rafael was someone I saw a lot of myself in as well. He pushed a bit too much and became overly involved, but not because he was nosy or simply wanted to dip his fingers in the affairs of others. He did so out of concern. Rafael was like the perfect counterpoint to Nat, and I liked that their relationship wasn't rushed. Solari Praveen was a supporting character that caught my attention who will hopefully have her own happy ending later on. The engaging cast, along with a touching story of family love and obligations and pursuing your personal and professional dreams, made No Small Parts a five-plus-starred read. ♥

I think this will be my last Bluewater Bay series book… and it ended somewhat sweetly with this book. When we meet Nat, he has a walk-on role on Wolf’s Landing and has had a really hard life. Like, unimaginably difficult. As a character, he was warm and relatable, but also mysterious at times. The potential to be deep was there, but Blue never quite crosses the threshold for both characters.

Nat’s love interest, Rafe, is a happy-go-lucky PA and wanna be director who is Hollywood born and bread and looking for his romance story. Again, a good character, but stays very surface level. With both characters having extremely different and thought-out backstories, you would think that would be the main focus – but instead, the book seems to center around more trivial things like their friend, Solari’s, coming out.

Overall, it was a fine read, just… forgettable in many ways. Maybe it’s because there have been so many in this series, or perhaps it was just too surface-level for my liking, but either way, I’d only recommend this to die-hard Bluewater Bay series readers – to keep the series alive. Otherwise, check out one of the first five or so in the series for a more dynamic experience.