Guest Review: Come On, Get Lucky by Jacqueline Rohrbach

Grant is looking for love, but there’s one big problem—himself. Due to Grant’s massive size, not to mention the fact he’s also a werewolf, all the eligible bachelors steer clear of him, preferring men who are a little less ginormous and a lot less monstrous. Only Lee, Grant’s best friend and vampire extraordinaire, sees him as a gentle giant who longs to give awesome backrubs, cupcakes, and endless affection to his lifelong mate.

Lee is tired of the same old song and dance of dating and then breaking up. The only steady presence in his life has been Grant, a tried-and-true friend who always knows what to say and the right spot to scratch. So, when Grant finally breaks up with his flighty boyfriend, Lee sees an opportunity to let his carefully guarded heart out of its box and try for something real and lasting.

There’s a problem, though: Lee has always forbidden romance between friends, an order he’s drilled into Grant’s head over and over again.

That means Lee might need to throw their friendship to the fire. To find passion, they’ll have to become enemies. To find love, they’ll have to get lucky.

Reviewer: Shee Reader

From the blurb you would think Lee was the driving force between these friends turning to lovers, but once Grant and the feckless ex are all broken up and the guys go off together to the bizarre vampire hotel, Lee promptly gets himself a hook up and tells Grant to go and do the same. I can understand the hook up to keep busy while the love interest is in a relationship, but when your guy is right there, and you are SHARING A HOTEL ROOM. I was confused.

I found this book quite hard to get involved in. Grant was a nice enough character but he lacked depth for me. Lee was less nice but more interesting, and it took me ages to care about them as a couple. The retreat at the Vampire hotel was hard to understand but the highlight was the bad guy causing trouble for our lukewarm heroes.

The bunny named Lucky didn’t really fit at all, but still, it was a cute device to name a shifter vamp romance.

In the end our heroes end up together with decent declarations, but the premise for the book outstripped the execution. The dialogue was quite good, often sassy or even funny, but for me, this book was nice enough, but I sort of had to force myself to finish it.

I was given a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.