Cop Out (Toronto Tales #1)

*Audiobook edition* Okay, I won\’t beat around the bush. I loved this. But will you love it too? I don\’t know. This book fits my very particular and specific tastes. I\’ll read almost anything, M/F, M/M, paranormal, historical, sci-fi… you name it, I\’ll read it. However, my true love remains a good old fashioned gay-for-you. I\’ve said it once, I\’ve said it a thousand times- give me a gay virgin and I\’m a happy camper! \”Cop Out\” was 100% in my wheelhouse. If you are looking for a cop story with a lot of detective work or a romantic suspense plot, look elsewhere. The fact that one of the MCs is a cop is more background information than anything else. There is no mystery and little focus on the job. If you are looking for a book with lots of sex, also look elsewhere. While the sex scenes in this book were squirm-in-my-seat hot, they were very infrequent. If you are looking for a fast-paced read, pass this one up. It is an agonizingly slow burn romance with a plot that takes its sweet time to develop. However, if you are like me and you love the struggle, the inner tension of a GFY, the slow, slow burn of a romance, and some amazing chemistry between two men going through some extreme life changes, then you should not let this one slip through your fingers. What really made this perfect for me was the narrator, Tristan James. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I\’m very picky about my narrators. This narrator was awesome. He had a perfect voice for the part and I\’d rank him as one of my favorite M/M narrators to date. An excellent GFY and another 5 star audiobook for me. **Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**

I loved this book. I fell in love with the character Kurt. He wanted to do the right thing and in the process he met Davy and something happened within that changed everything. Kurt\’s goodness lured me in and I decided that \”this is the sort of man I want\”. His internal struggles added drama to the story and was realistic. Burn did a fantastic job writing this story and Tristan James\’ narration added so much to the characters. A great combination here. Though each character was struggling, there was a time I wanted to reach through my ear buds and slap the fool out of Davy…but I can understand some of his actions, it just didn\’t make me real happy. When you get caught up in the lives of the characters on a page, and consequently through the narration…you know it\’s a good book. I certainly recommend this book and I look forward to reading the next book in the series…

I got this book because I love listening to Tristan James, and he did not fail me. Having said that the love story goes nowhere – fast or slow. Kurt and Davy, meet and become friends; then Kurt figures out he wants Davy but he\’s \”Not Gay\” this drives a wedge between them and the second half of the book is all about Kurt figuring his life out. Davy comes back into the picture because Kurt gets hurt and they live happily every after, the end………..*sigh* another author of gay romance stuck on the het romantic trope (find/lose/find) For men in uniform I much prefer the Cut and Run series.

This was a new plot for me in GFY but it worked well in my opinion. Detective Kurt O’Donnell was injured in an explosion that killed his work partner Ben. As a good partner, Kurt decided to extend himself to Ben\’s family but quickly realized that he didn\’t know anything about Ben\’s family. So Kurt went in search of Ben\’s family and this is when Kurt realized that Ben wasn\’t who he thought he was. First of all, Kurt had no idea that Ben was gay nor did he know about the partner Davy. Second, when he got to know Davy and how Ben treated Davy, Kurt felt guilty and tried to help Davy pick up the pieces of his devastated life. The mourning of Ben made Kurt and Davy get close and soon Kurt, who is straight, found himself having sexual fantasies about Davy. But Kurt couldn\’t act on them because he is catholic, plus the fact that he wasn\’t gay. Besides, after what Davy went through with Ben, a closeted detective was not something Davy wanted to experience again. Is being friends enough? I liked Kurt and I especially liked how close his family was. I loved Kurt\’s new work partner and that relationship was obviously more valuable and way more supportive than what he had with Ben. I liked how compassionate Ben was overall, especially considering that he sent texts for over 6 months with no reply. I am ambivalent about Davey. I just didn\’t feel like I got a good sense of who he was. He was just really weak but that was understandable since his partner for 6 years was just murdered, who wouldn\’t be feeling so low? He obviously had friends and a real life before because they all popped back in once the barrier (Ben) wasn\’t in the picture. So I know he must have been a great guy before his self-esteem was smashed. Maybe we will see more of him in the next book

Hard to difference the characters because the narrator has the same tone. His nasal, deep voice make it difficult to switch from character to character. Not happy with the book because of that.

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