3 Stars

Consistent Starling fluff.

As the owner of Bloved, Kelly has unfortunately made himself the target of a jilted psycho bent on revenge, thinking Kelly’s dating app stole his true love from him. The threats have escalated to disturbing proportions and against Kelly’s wishes, bodyguard Jase is called in to whisk him away from danger.

Jase and Kelly are like oil and water, and their clashing interactions were fun and amusing. Each think themselves as either not deserving of love or doomed to loneliness for forever, but one knows that attraction will win out and they’ll succumb to their desires.

Overall, no surprises here. Insta-lust and love is strong, but with a feel good vibe all around. Just what one needs when craving something sweet, simple, and entertaining! ( )

The Stella Starling world is a happy, mostly angst free place where love always wins. Fluffy and full of sugary sweet romance, the stories are uncomplicated, feel good reads that will put a smile on your face.

In the Stella Starling world, bLoved is the hottest new dating app for gay guys - a way not to just hook up but to actually find love - true, real everlasting love through the algorithms founder, Kelly Davis has created. With the financial backing of Logan Carter, the company is poised on the verge of viral success and have planned a special Valentine's Day campaign centered around Kelly to take advantage. But when Kelly's stalker escalates to death threats, he finds himself withdrawn from the public eye with a mostly silent bodyguard, no internet and endless amounts of boredom before him.

Be Mine is written concurrently to Be True and follows Kelly Davis and his bodyguard, Jase Walker when they go off grid and while Logan and Trevor are busy with the social media campaign for bLoved.

This was good. I liked Kelly and Jase and the chemistry between them was a good mix of flirty, sexy and feisty. Both of them were funny and I loved the banter as they pushed each other to the limits. Their relationship was generally well paced, although the wider plot of the stalker kind of dragged. But it allowed them to find time to talk and get to know each other without just jumping straight into bed and it made it stronger for it. I was a little frustrated at Kelly's inability to understand that Jase's job was important to him - but then he was missing most of the important parts of the story - like that Miles Bryne basically took him in and gave him a chance. So I guess it's understandable. Even if it annoyed me at the time.

Overall it had me laughing and smiling and was lighthearted fun read. 3 stars. ( )

2,8 stars

pretty average on all counts. completely insta-lovey and the sexual tension the author was trying to build just didn't happen in my experience, so while there were sex scenes, this wasn't all that steamy. there were some interesting themes in the book (mostly the insecurity of both characters'; Jase's insecurity about his amputation and Kelly's insecurity about his own worth.)

not the worst thing I ever read but still ended up feeling like a waste of a perfectly good sunday afternoon. ( )