I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. There was some decent chemistry from Cooper and Kier, but not enough that I read this through. The story felt disjointed and odd.

I absolutely loved this novel.
Such a great story with defined characters and a great plot.
What drew me in the most was how fleshed out the characters were
The writing style was fluid and relateable.
The cover was fascinating as well.
A reviting read overall
Definitely recommend adding this to your TBR!

Second-chance romance is my thing. This one checked all the boxes. The dialogues were good and brought some jovial tone to the narrative. The idea of greek gods was well-developed. This is the 4th book in the series. It made sense to me even though I have not read the 3 first books. I am looking forward to seeing more from this series.

This was a terse novel. It was just eleven chapters, and I would argue chapters one and most of eleven are totally different storylines, so more accurately length is nine chapters. The copy of the story I read did not have pages, but counting, excluding chapters one and eleven, I got 69 pages. So this is more a novella length. I wish I knew more up front because Novella's are generally not something I gravitate to because as a romance reader who is not a big instantaneous love troupe fan, I judge them more harshly. It is hard to appreciate a love story where everything is rushed. Meaning, that the story is so short there is not really a ton of time to fall in love with the characters, or any time for character development.

This is true for me in this case. That being said the teaser/description of the story, Cooper and Keir attempt romance for a second time after Kier left Cooper at the alter, was very accurate between chapters 2-10. So if the hook grabs you, you are a fan of a novella's length, and spicy M/M romance scenes, this is the book for you hands down. Do not even add to TBR, just dive right in.

The part that was left out of the description or not accurately depicted was the dating service part. It does read "With a little magic, can two hearts find their way home?" but I thought that was just a general romance-grabbing line. No, it meant Roman Gods, as in superhuman, kind of 'magic'. It does say at the very end that "Now, he’s enlisting the help of Men Wanted to make his dreams come true" but this Men's Wanted is actually ancient gods, who are going to take up chapters one and eleven, of an already short book, with a totally different plot line. Now after I did some deep diving into this, I found out this book is the fourth of the series. In books one and two there is a mention of that subplot. However, if like me you come across this cover, see two men with a rainbow, and read the description of a second chance romance, the gods' subplot becomes distracting and unwanted. Part of the issue is on Goodreads the Men Wanted series only links books one and two as part of the series and not this one or book three for that matter. So I looked up the title and moved to currently reading, slightly confused, and became determined and did the backtracking. As it currently, is as a reader, you have to go to the author look at everything she's ever written, which is a lot, and go to the fourth page of her completed works to find book one and read the teaser to figure this all out. If you just find this book and start would never mention the dating service is what ties the series together or that the dating service is really Apollo, Artemis, and Eros. Although this confusion may be more on Goodreads.

I have never read Megan Slayer before, so I went in pretty open-minded, although second chance romance is not a trope that I love. As a romance reader, I have a hard time getting past that two people who love so immensely and deserve a HEA would ever choose prior to that to have ever broken up or left their 'soulmate'. So there has to be a good reason for the original break-up. This story did not have a befitting reason. Without spoilers and in summary, Keir left originally because he felt he was not enough for Cooper; which I enjoyed as the reasoning because Keir is the celebrity one of the two of them, and the easier option would have been to make the blue-collar character dating a celebrity to leave because of feelings of inadequacy. I like that even a celebrity in this story has doubts, it humanizes him. Slayer wrote that over the three years the two were not together Kier had self-development and gave proof of that happening with his actions in this story, but we as readers saw/ read very little of that development so, those fears would still be present. The same reason they broke up in the first place would still be an issue for any relationship moving forward, plus leaving someone at the alter is just a level of cruelty that is so hard to move past. Like at no point before getting engaged and planning the wedding did those fears kick in especially, in this case for them to love each other so much that they got back together? The added detail of Keir seeing Cooper through some sort of car window or something, watching the pain Kier inflicted, just added to the almost cruel level of leveling that I just felt was not made up for.

The sex scenes between the two were some of the most descriptive writing in the story. So if you are one for a spicy time, this is up your alley. Besides those scenes though there was a lot of dialogue and general telling rather than depictive action taking place. There was so much gossip from so many different side characters and the gossip stories kept changing too, making the story hard to follow.

I also had a hard time with Keir Saunder being described as the biggest actor in the world when he is staring in a made-for-TV movie. That is more B-lister than A-lister.

Overall the teaser and cover were a better hook than the actual story for me. I think this would have just benefitted more if it was longer. If readers had more time to see the character development of both Cooper and Kier. Even during the five to six weeks of filming, the story bypassed three of those, so we did not even get to follow along with the romance of the already short time the characters were together. I did not dislike this by any means I just did not really find it believable even for fictional romance.

It was a short and sweet M/M love story about second chances. It was cute. Especially the ending.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley, Megan Slayer and Evernight Publishing for this ARC.

3.5⭐️

I found myself getting confused with all the good and bad comments/rumors on the main characters relationship. But apart from that I thought this was a good story. I really liked the depth of the MCs feelings towards each other and the chemistry was HOT.

Please note - this book isn't on Goodreads so I couldn't post my review on there.