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Review Blitz: Gym Bros (Bay Area Bros #2) by August Jones


GYM BROS
August Jones
Release Date: September 19

Buy Link:
https://mybook.to/gym_bros
Available in KU

Why you will love this book…

🔥MM Romance
🔥Strangers to lovers
🔥Opposites attract
🔥Forbidden
🔥MMA fighter x yoga teacher
🔥Beauty meets a beast
🔥Feminization
🔥Jealousy/Possessiveness
🔥Size difference
🔥High heat/minimal angst
🔥Lots of inconvenient *feelings*


Blurb
Calyx


If I could teach yoga and never have to walk a runway again, I’d do it in a heartbeat. But tell that to my manager-slash- part-time lover. Eager to get me back to work, but willing to be patient, he asks me to help his son recover from a torn hamstring. I accept the opportunity to use my brain and my body to help get an athlete back on his feet. Samuel Ray is exactly what I expect for an amateur MMA fighter. Big. Brutal. Broody. And definitely not my type.

Samuel

With my hamstring on the mend, I need to prevent future injuries that might end my career before it even starts. Yoga will improve my flexibility, but more importantly my balance, which is something my body and my life is sadly lacking. The opportunity to work one on one with an expert is perfect—almost as perfect as Calyx. My dad called him rare and special, and he wasn’t exaggerating. He’s the most physically perfect person I’ve ever seen. It’s his prickly personality I’m not so sure about.

My guard goes up around him, but I can’t get him out of my head. It takes no time at all for him to become the object of all my salacious fantasies. The challenge is getting him to give a guy like me a chance, but I’ve never backed down from a fight, and I always play to win.

Gym Bros is a high heat, forbidden, opposites attract MM romance intended for readers 18+. It is book two in the Bay Areas Bros series, but can easily be enjoyed as a standalone. HEA guaranteed.

MY REVIEW


When Calyx's manager asks him to help his son rehab an injury, he surely wasn't expecting Samuel. He's a big, brutal fighter, but he ends up being so much more than just that. He's Calyx's opposite - and he can't help but fall for him. He knows Samuel is off limits, but he can't resist him, in any way. Except it's going to hurt when his secret comes out and ruins the beautiful thing he and Samuel are falling into.


Samuel is obsessed with his yoga teacher. He can't help it, there's something so alluring about Calyx - how much smaller he is, the beautiful things he wears, and his guarded heart. If he's not careful, he's going to fall headlong in love with him...


Samuel and Calyx are fire! Their scenes were both insanely hot, and increasingly emotionally intimate. I was so into their growing relationship, but in the back of my mind, I was really not looking forward to how much it was going to hurt when Calyx's secret came out. Thankfully they had friends with really good advice, and Samuel ended up being more grown up than the average 21 year old. I can't remember an opposites attract romance I enjoyed more than sweet Samuel and his angel Calyx. Theirs is the first story in this series I've read, but after falling in love with them, I'm really impatient to read the next Bay Area Bros to fall in love.


Meet August Jones
August Jones (She/They) is an author of erotica and a voracious reader of smut. She resides in Texas with her family, pets, and books. However, she reads mostly on her phone because she’s cheap, it has a built in backlight, and it’s almost always in her hand.

If you ever discover her real name, don’t tell her, just read the books she’s published (you’ll like them) and thank her later with a rating or review. Mwah!

Feel free to reach out to her on Instagram or check out her website https://augustjonesbooks.com where you’ll find a link to subscribe to her newsletter and get a sneak peak at any upcoming releases or free shorts.

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