AUDIO REVIEW: Home Grown Talent by Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcom (Creative Types #2)

HOME GROWN TALENT

Creative Types - Book Two

by Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm

Release Date: August 25, 2022

Narrator: Simon Goldhill

Audio Release Date: March 20, 2024

Review

A fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable audiobook. Sharp, witty, and flirtatious.

Joanna & Sally’s writing styles are perfectly suited to narration, and believe me, narrator Simon Goldhill is absolutely wonderful.

English charm, a gorgeous gardener and a young model trying to make his career. Things are about to get messy, and not just from digging in the ground.

It doesn’t take long to see how great these two would be together, and how horribly things could go wrong! Social media and the TV industry can be toxic and with every hashtag and selfie, with every manager and TV producer, more and more of yourself is given over to others, and that can be a scary place. Especially if you are a salt-of-the-earth type who barely knows what a hashtag is.

I’m always a big fan of stories where they both have faults and/or make mistakes. I like the equal footing it brings to a relationship.

There’s also a super satisfying ending to all the drama!

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Synopsis

Are you for real?

From the outside, it looks like model and influencer Mason Nash has it all—beauty, fame, and fortune. With his star rapidly rising, and a big contract up for grabs, Mason’s on the verge of hitting the big time.

When an opportunity arises to co-host a gardening slot on daytime TV with his ex’s brother, Owen Hunter, Mason is definitely on-board. And he intends to use every trick in the book to make the show a hit—including agreeing to his ruthless producer’s demand to fake a ‘will-they/won’t-they’ romance with his co-host…

Owen Hunter is a gardener with a huge heart and both feet planted firmly on the well-tilled ground. He’s proud of the life he’s built and has absolutely no desire to be on TV—yet somehow he finds himself agreeing to do the show.

It’s definitely not because he’s interested in Mason Nash. The guy might be beautiful—and yeah, his spoiled brat routine presses all Owen’s buttons in the bedroom—but Owen has no interest in a short-term fling with a fame-hungry model.

As the two men get closer, though, Owen starts to believe there’s more to Mason than his beautiful appearance and carefully-curated online persona—that beneath the glitz and glamour is a sweet, sensitive man longing to be loved.

A man Owen might be falling for. A man who might even feel the same.

But in a world of media spin and half-truths, Owen is dangerously out of his depth. And when a ridiculous scandal explodes online, with Owen at its heart, it starts to look as though everything he thought was real is built on lies—including his budding romance with Mason.

About Joanna Chambers

Joanna Chambers primarily writes MM romance. She lives and works in the UK and finds time to write by eschewing sleep and popular culture.

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About Sally Malcolm

Sally Malcolm was bitten by the m/m romance bug in 2016 and hasn’t looked back. It’s fair to say she’s obsessed with the genre. She has four contemporary m/m romances out, set in the fictional Long Island seaside town of New Milton.

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