Ami's Hoard

3.5 stars

I sure like the premise -- not the "enemies to lovers" premise (my weakness is "FRIENDS to lovers" :p) but the idea of Karl becoming Paul's manny. What can I say, I love THAT plot (I need more "manny" stories :p). I thought Charlie (Paul's son) was really, REALLY adorable, and he was my favorite character of this book.

I liked slow-burned relationship -- but I must admit that at times, this felt a bit too slow. I guess maybe because we knew the 'real' problem was, Paul's concern about the reaction from his family and friends (and Charlie) about him being gay -- which I thought was moot, because most of them realized it anyway, and didn't seem to make a fuss about it. So at times it felt rather flat and not enough tension, I guess. The part near the ending, the one during the birthday scene, it did bring tears to my eyes though (I wanted to hug Charlie so bad)

I liked the secondary characters; I was happy that Anyta didn't go with the 'too common plot' of creating homophobic bigot characters, in Paul's in-laws. Thank you for NOT going that way, Anyta.