Release Blitz, Review Tour and Giveaway: Living on a Dare by Grace Kilian Delaney

19 April of 2019 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 4

4.0Overall score

A good start to this series.

Living on a Dare By Grace Kilian Delaney

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: April 19, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 170 pages

Series: A Shore Thing, Book 1

Cover Design: AngstyG

Synopsis

Stuntman Draven O’Connor never turns down a dare—even if it means getting down on one knee to propose to his former college roommate and friend. The same man he’s been crushing on since the first day they met. The same man that has grown distant over the past year. And the same man who just agreed to be his fiancé.

Julien Bouchard is tired of living a lie. He spent the past year exploring his sexuality in secret, enduring countless dates with women to appease his mother, and dodging his best friend, Draven, who knows everything there is to know about him, except the one thing that could change their friendship. Ready to face his friend, he meets him at a bar and is greeted by an unexpected marriage proposal. The dare isn’t surprising; it’s the scorching hot kiss that sends Julien’s head and heart in a tailspin—and gives him an idea for the perfect plan.

But perfect plans never go according to plan, and news of their fake engagement spreads to their families as fast as a wildfire, forcing them to confront their true feelings about each other and hope they don’t get burned.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A good start to this series.

Living on a Dare is the first book I’ve read by Grace Kilian Delaney and I enjoyed it. It’s a pretty quick and entertaining read. It’s told in first person POV, alternating between Draven and Julien and has a couple of good tropes: friends to lovers and fake engagement/marriage.

There’s not much angst to the story and it didn’t really give me a lot of feels as I read it, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. Other than Julien’s homophobic parents it a fairly light read but I wouldn’t exactly call it fluffy. Both men have hang-ups to overcome for their relationship to work. Draven got burned by his last long-term boyfirend and Julien has some insecurities because of his parents.

Julien’s brother, Quinn, was an interesting secondary character and I’m looking forward to reading his story in the next book.