PERFECT (Soulmates #4) by Felice Stevens-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 23 2018

Despite multiple degrees and business success, in his heart Jeremy Strauss feels he’s never measured up. While he hasn’t lacked for men or women to share his bed, Jeremy has yet to find someone who sees beyond his muscles and perfect smile. Taking it slow with a lover isn’t how he operates, but something about the shy accountant he rescues in a snowstorm makes him want this time to be different. So what if Blake drops little comments here and there about Jeremy’s pretty face? Their relationship is perfect.

Or is it?

Lonely most of his life, Blake Myers is as careful with his heart as he is with a balance sheet. The last thing he expects is for a man like Jeremy to fall for him, and he can’t help but wait for the bubble to burst on their relationship. When the stress of a professional crisis turns personal, Blake sees the perfect relationship he and Jeremy have built start to crumble. Caught in an ever-tightening web of lies, rather than wait for Jeremy to leave him, Blake breaks it off and vanishes.

Perfection is an illusion.

Jeremy doesn’t know which way to turn and for the first time in his life, he’s lost and uncertain. Believing he’s no longer the man Jeremy needs, Blake sinks deeper into despair. Both men struggle with secrets, lies, and hurtful memories until they are forced to look inside their hearts and learn the truth—that love is perfectly imperfect.

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REVIEW:  PERFECT is the fourth instalment in Felice Stevens’ contemporary, adult SOULMATES erotic, M/M romance series. This is gym owner Jeremy Strauss, and accountant Blake Myers’ story line. PERFECT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Some of the events of PERFECT run parallel to the events of book two – ONE CALL AWAY where the reader was introduced to Jeremy’s brother, former model, and radio talk show psychologist Noah Straus.

NOTE: PERFECT is an M/M storyline with graphic sexual situations that may not be suitable for all readers.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Blake and Jeremy) PERFECT follows the building relationship between gym owner and businessman Jeremy Strauss, and accountant Blake Myers. An early snow-storm found CPA Blake Myers taking refuge with a stranger, a man who checked off all of Blake’s boxes but a man Blake believes is too good for a numbers nerd like himself. Jeremy Strauss likes what he sees when he first encounters the shy and sweet accountant, a shyness that only endears Blake to the man with whom he will fall in love. What ensues is the slow building relationship between Blake and Jeremy, and the fall-out as Blake’s professional life begins to implode, taking a toll on his personal relationship with the man that he loves.

PERFECT is a story of opposites attract. Blake has issues of low self-esteem, having been lead to believe that he will never be good enough by the father he has grown to hate. Jeremy is a man determined to find someone who will love him for more than his body and his looks, but for his mind and his heart as well. As Blake’s professional life begins to spiral out of control, the secrets and lies continue to build until he is forced to walk away from the man that he loves.

The relationship between Jeremy and Blake is one of immediate attraction but Blake isn’t one to fall immediately into bed. Jeremy must bide his time as his slow seduction of Blake brings him closer towards his happily ever after. Both Jeremy and Blake have issues stemming from their earlier years, issues that should have been resolved as they entered adulthood and matured but sometimes emotional, childhood scars have a way of causing permanent damage that may never be resolved. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

PERFECT is a sexy and edgy story line. Blake is an awkward numbers man who struggles to be accepted in both his personal and professional life; Jeremy is as laid back as Blake is intense but Jeremy hides a bruised ego as it pertains to his own successes in life. The premise is dramatic and edgy; the characters are realistic and animated; the romance is provocative and intense.

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Reviewed by Sandy