Release Blitz, Review and Giveaway: Wrangling a Groom by DJ Jamison

10 October of 2019 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 4.5

4.5Overall score

A good friends-to-enemies-to-lovers story.

Wrangling a Groom By DJ Jamison

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: October 10, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Marital Bliss, Book 2

Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design

Length: 85,000 words approx..

Synopsis

Can two men keep a childhood promise for marital bliss?

Wyatt is overwhelmed after his grandfather dies, leaving him to take over the cattle ranch. The Triple J is floundering, vandals are targeting him, and his first and only love is finally within reach–and still holding a grudge. Wyatt has wanted to marry Diego since they made a childhood pact, but Diego isn’t back for their second chance.

When a funeral calls Diego back to Texas, he comes face-to-face with the cowboy who broke his heart. Resentment has burned inside him for years, but his anger wavers as he realizes just how much Wyatt is struggling to keep his head above water. The man he once loved is lonely and burdened, and Diego feels compelled to help him rediscover the strong, capable rancher he knows him to be.Hostility gives way to passion, then friendship as they fall into a rhythm of work and sex. Wyatt has renewed hope he might wrangle the man he wants to be his groom. But Diego has a life waiting for him one thousand miles away, and love may not be enough to prevent history from repeating itself.

Wrangling a Groom is Book 2 of the Marital Bliss series, but it can be read as a standalone.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A good friends-to-enemies-to-lovers story.

Second chance stories, along with friends-to-lovers, are among my favorite romance tropes. In Wrangling a Groom, we not only get a second chance story but we also get a good enemies-to-lovers one.

Wyatt and Diego grew up together on Wyatt’s family’s ranch. His grandfather was the family patriarch and ruled the roost. Diego’s father has worked on the ranch for many years and is now foreman.

As teenagers Wyatt and Diego realized that their relationship was more than just friends. Unfortunately, Wyatt’s grandfather threatened to disinherit Wyatt, and not leave him the ranch that he was raised to run, if he continued a romantic relationship with Diego. When Wyatt refused to come out, and have an open relationship with Diego, Diego left in anger and broke off all contact with Wyatt.

Six years later Diego returns for the funeral of Wyatt’s grandfather. This sets the stage for Wyatt to try and win Diego back. There are some really hot scenes for these two; they just about melted my ereader.

I enjoyed this story a lot. The rebuilding of Wyatt’s and Diego’s relationship was well crafted and kept me entertained. The ranch is having some financial difficulties and Wyatt has good ideas for other sources of income. We get to revisit Bliss Island from book one in the series, Surprise Groom, but you don’t have to have read it to enjoy Wrangling a Groom.

There were some interesting secondary characters that I hope we might read more about in the future. While this book didn’t quite make it to 5 stars for me, DJ Jamison remains firmly seated on my list of favorite MM authors and I look forward to reading her next book.

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O Factor: Scorcher

Marital Bliss Series

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About Author

DJ Jamison

DJ Jamison is the author of more than a dozen m/m romances, including the Ashe Sentinel series and the Hearts and Health series. She writes a variety of queer characters, from gay to bisexual to asexual, with a focus on telling love stories that are more about common ground than lust at first sight. DJ grew up in the Midwest in a working-class family, and those influences can be found in her writing through characters coping with real-life problems: money troubles, workplace drama, family conflicts and, of course, falling in love. DJ spent more than a decade in the newspaper industry before chasing her first dream to write fiction. She spent a lifetime reading before that, and continues to avidly devour her fellow authors’ books each night. She lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, two fish and, regrettably, one snake.

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