Sweet Slow Sizzle, being a romance, is heavy on the romance, but this one is one of the slowest slow-burn love stories I’ve ever read. If not for the hot thoughts the two lovebirds have for each other, you might even call it a simmer. Hunky half-Hawaiian Jojo Williams is Bangers Tavern’s bouncers, and he’s had the hots for server Lana Lopez since she started to work there three years earlier. She is barely holding on to her life, such as it is, working at Bangers at night and caring for her brothers after their parents die in an automobile accident. Jojo has the sense to hold back, not to add more to her plate than she can handle, but to be there for her at every possible step of the way.
As in Stone’s other novels, her themes go beyond those found in a typical romance. The situations she depicts are realistic. There are no perfect knights in shining armor or peerless princesses. Stone’s use of every life day situations brings a deep humanity to her novels that is lacking in most romances.
Stone also brings diversity into her stories without hitting readers over the head with it: she includes bisexuals, heterosexuals, Hispanics, Hawaiians, whites, blacks, and bodywise everything from hefty to scrawny, bodybuilder to couch potato, artists, social media influencers, and a wide cast of others. Her characters are bound in a loose-knit family of Bangers Tavern employees that augments the characters’ own families—or lack thereof.
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Sweet Slow Sizzle: Bangers Tavern Romance 4 (Sadira Stone, October 4, 2022) is available through:
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