Drive
Shaft 2, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Geoffrey
Knight
Wilde
City Press (January 14th 2015) re-release
**** 4 Star review ****
“When the going gets
tough, the tough get going—so start your engines!”
Once in a while, everyone falls on hard times. Every
year it seems the cost of living goes up, business slows down and money’s just
too tight to mention. But for old Clyde, ever-increasing debts have forced him
to turn to a notorious loan shark, Tony Trimboli, just so he can keep the doors
to his auto shop open and make sure his two hard-working employees—Dean ‘Hutch’
Hutchinson and Jensen Rivers—are able to pay their own rent and make ends meet.
Now the time has come for Clyde to pay up, or else
the troublesome Trimboli Triplets—Tony’s three trigger-happy sons—will not only
take Clyde’s business from him… they’ll burn it to the ground.
For Hutch and Jensen, there’s only one way to raise
the money in time to save Clyde’s livelihood—win the perilous Reaper’s Rally,
an illegal two-day race across the scorching desert with a cool $50,000 cash
waiting for the first car to cross the finish line.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to buckle up and
start your engines! The race is on to save not only the auto shop but each
other’s lives, as Hutch and Jensen blaze a trail of turbo-charged testosterone
and high-speed action across the burning California desert in Drive Shaft 2:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Jensen
and Hutch are settling into being a couple, moving in together, Jensen is even
painting over Hutch’s horrible wall paper. It’s very blissfully normal. Until a
local thug and his comes knocking at the shop, wanting the money Clyde borrowed
back, with a hefty amount of interest. In order to help the man they have both
come to care for like a father, Jensen and Hutch decide to do what they do
best, drive.
For two men that went from zero to sixty in their
relationship, the specifics of this race will test the boundaries of that
relationship. If they stand a chance of winning, they are about to get a crash
course in communication and trust. The goal of the race at the start is to win
so they can bail Clyde out and save the ship. It becomes a race for their lives
as the Trimboli Triplets do anything and everything possible to sabotage Jensen
and Hutch from winning. When the troublesome twosome show they are stronger and
smarter than the Triplets initially thought, they resort to deadly measures to
win.
This book was full of suspense, action and passion
as Jensen and Hutch not only navigate their way through a dangerous and deadly
race, they are still learning to navigate their way through each other. Through
a snake pit, a dangerous cave, almost drowning and a spooky graveyard capped
off by some hot, steamy, paint peeling sex on the hood of the Viper, these two
are definitely getting more comfortable in their relationship. I could have
done without the constant mentioning of the age difference, which is only six
years, and Jensen forever referred to as the young Texan. But overall, I
thoroughly enjoyed the edge of my seat action that ran from start to finish in
this book.
There was a little sneak peak at the end of this
book for book three, and I am so excited for the possibility of threesome.
Can’t wait to see how much trouble Jensen and Hutch can strum up in Russia,
with a certain Russian.
A must read for anyone that loves an adrenaline rush
and some page burning romance.
He currently owns his own advertising and design agency which he runs from his island home on the Great Barrier Reef, and can’t wait to buy his next plane ticket—whether it’s real or imaginary.
See Geoffrey Knight's backlist at Wilde City Press!
To be entered in the giveaway for a chance to win an e-book copy of Drive Shaft AND Drive Shaft 2, leave a comment below and tell me who is your favorite Wilde City Author?
I am not sure I have read any Wilde City authors. But Geoffrey Knight could easily become my favorite. Books sound amazing.
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i havent read this series yet
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a fav WCP author but I know some of them and like their books such as Ethan Stone, Poppy Dennison, Sandrine Gasq-Dion, etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
No favorite yet.
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i don't have a fave as yet
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I have several favorites! BJ Sheppard is my newest favorite right now. I also love Ethan Stone, Heidi Cullinan, Ethan Day, Very hard to choose just one!
ReplyDeleteI haven't started reading this series, but it sounds great! Not sure I have a definite favorite author at this moment. Would love an opportunity to add a new author to my list.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Wilde City author has to Ethan Day his books are wonderfully written and funny too. The book sounds really good I'm adding it to my wish list.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to choose just one. There are so many great authors who have published with them. I like Poppy Dennison, Geoffrey Knight and LE Franks.
ReplyDeleteGeoffrey Knight is the only Wilde City author whose book I've read, so he's my favorite!
ReplyDeleteWaxapplelover (at) gmail (dot) com
Nice review and insightful, there are so many issues surrounding such a quick relationship that I hope they work through it and what an interesting hint about the next book in the series ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit tricky for me to pick a favourite author at Wilde City, as I think my fellow readers maybe surprised at how many well known authors are published by this relatively new publisher, for instance JP Barnaby, Eric Arvin, Ethan Day, Heidi Cullinan, Ally Blue, Sara York & TJ Klune are a few I know off but there are many more. If you get a chance to go on their site also check the the author caricatures, they are fun.
Thank you for a chance to win ecopies of Geoffrey Knights books Drive Shaft & Drive Shaft 2, awesome thank you so much :) slholland22 {at} hotmail {dot} com
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