REVIEW: Grudge Match by Pandora Pine (Amore Matchmaking #2)

GRUDGE MATCH

Amore Matchmaking - Book Two

by Pandora Pine

Release Date: April 12, 2022

Review

I love a second chance romance, and 17 years later, Fio, our gentleman farmer, and True, our reluctant banker get another chance. True didn’t just walk away all those years ago, he shattered Fio’s heart. But neither of them has really been able to let go of their first love.

Now that True is back, at the helm of the bank his father once ran, he’s back in Fio’s life, given that he needs a loan from his bank.

But if the animals are going to get the sanctuary they desperately need, Fio and Tru are going to need to let go of the past hurt. And maybe they’ll also find that they are still ‘the ones’.

Of course, they’ll also have to admit that Brando and his Amore Matchmaking biz, successfully made another perfect match.

I love and enjoyed these two. Fio is such a nice guy, with a love of animals in need of a home and a family. A True is also in need of a family to love him. They were a great pair.

I’m really looking forward to Nero’s story, he seems like he’ll get up to some mischief.

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Synopsis

Fiorello Lombardi’s dream is to open a farm animal sanctuary. When he learns a neighboring farm is going under, he takes the chance to turn the dream into a reality. But applying for a loan at a local bank brings him face to face with the first man who broke his heart, his old high school sweetheart. And then his heart is shattered a second time when the bank denies his loan.

Despite coming from money and privilege, True Becker’s life hasn’t been a bed of roses. Condemned by his father for being gay, he was shipped off to a religious college to keep him as far away from temptation—and Fio—as possible. Unable to face either family or the past, True’s stayed away ever since. When a position is offered at the bank his late father helmed for decades, True decides it’s time to come home at last. Who would have thought his feelings for Fio would be as strong today as they were all those years ago? Even worse, True realizes too late he’s fallen onto a path he never wanted: following in his father’s footsteps.

Locked in a heated grudge match over funds for the animal rescue, the former lovers face off over life choices, regrets, and second chances. Will Fio and True realize love conquers all, or will they continue fighting the coldest war of all until all hope for love is lost?

Grudge Match is book two in the delightfully romantic Amore Matchmaking series, and shows us all that sometimes the most important part of the recipe for love is forgiveness. The series features four gay brothers, their eccentric mother, an ornery goat, and way too much pasta.

About Pandora Pine

Sick of the slogging rat-race of her 9-5 job, Pandora Pine put pen to paper (literally!) to make her ambition of becoming a romance novelist a reality. She cut her teeth in the dog-eat-dog world of fan fiction, still dreaming of the day when she would be a published author.

In her spare time, Pandora fancies herself an amateur nature photographer. She enjoys mucking around in swamps, hiking through the woods and crawling around on her hands and knees in her backyard seeking out the perfect shot. Pandora is a fan of roadside seafood shacks and always thinks Mexican food is a good idea at the time.

Some of Pandora’s favorite things are chocolate, writing longhand with purple pens, and handsome men falling in love with each other.

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