REVIEW: The Holiday Experiment by Rhys Everly

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THE HOLIDAY EXPERIMENT

by Rhys Everly

Release Date: October 28, 2022

Review

Sometimes the place your ran from, is the exact place you should be.


What do you get when you have to men doing their best to avoid a personal life? A lot of interfering friends and family (love small towns)!!


Enzo and Carson are really nice guys, just trying to make do with their own heartbreaks that they’ve endured. Enzo has returned to his hometown to lick his wounds, living with his mother. It’s like he never left..living in his childhood home, seeing his teenage crush…


Carson has been throwing every waking minute into his restaurant. It’s easier that way. Until his friends decide it’s time he got a life.  Next thing he knows, Enzo has talked him into letting him help getting a boyfriend. The bet ends at Christmas.


Yup, helping your crush get dates sounds a like perfect plan. 


Enzo and Carson are both likeable guys (even if frustrating), as are the friends and family that surround them. With a lovely age-gap, small town vibes, and a Holiday happy ending, it’s a sweet story.


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Synopsis

Wanted: Single, hot, young man to sweep…my best friend’s brother off his feet.


Enzo

After failing big in Boston, I’m back home with my tail between my legs.

And then somehow I rope myself into getting Carson’s dating life in order.

We make a bet. Get him a boyfriend before Christmas or I lose and I have to do what he says.

Only considering the feelings I still harbor for him, losing may not be such a bad idea.


Carson

Everyone tells me I’m a workaholic.

What I really am is a man with a broken heart.

Until I get the wind knocked off my feet by my brother’s best friend. Under the mistletoe. Because apparently my life is anything but subtle.

He’s hell bent on getting me a boyfriend that is not him, but he’s all I can think about.

This little holiday experiment between us is going to end up in disaster. I know it.

I just hope it doesn’t leave me with more pieces to pick up.


The Holiday Experiment is a Christmas standalone and contains a young musician trying to find his place in the world, an almost forty-year-old workaholic that can’t catch a break, an adorable goddaughter that seems to repeat all the bad words and a witchy mom that loves to bake magical cakes and solve problems.

About Rhys Everly

Rhys Everly-Lawless is a hopeless romantic who loves happily-ever-afters. 

Which would explain why he loves writing them.

 

When he’s not passionately typing out his next book, you can find him cuddling his dog, feeding his husband, or taking long walks letting those plot bunnies breed ferociously in his head. 

 

He writes contemporary gay romances as Rhys Everly and LGBTQ+ urban fantasy and paranormal romances as Rhys Lawless.


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