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A review by bananatricky
The Honeymoon Trap by Kelly Hunter
4.0
As I think I said about the second book in this series of books about the Jackson brothers, the blurb for the book is totally misleading.
Eli Jackson, the youngest of three brothers who own a family boat building business is a bit anti-social, His girlfriend died five years ago and he has never got over it, Every Friday night he plays some role playing game with a group of friends, including a girl whose name is Fuzzy. On this Friday the other two players haven't turned up so Eli gets his brothers to help out. Soon they have wheedled all sorts of information out of Fuzzy, or Zoey as she is really called and laughingly presided over a mock wedding in the game (to get free weapons upgrades or something).
A few days later Eli's brother tells him that he has asked Zoey (pretending to be Eli) if she wants to join him at a gaming conference for a week - 'apparently' he has a spare ticket and bed in a twin room because one of his friends dropped out.
Of course when Eli and Zoey arrive at the hotel they discover that his brothers couldn't resist meddling and have booked them into the Honeymoon suite!
This is a short book but packed full of humour. I loved the gaming references, the steampunk costumes and the constant eating (hey, it's New Year's Day I've been eating solidly for a week). Zoey is a feisty character, full of fun and life. Eli is a bit angsty and there is a wonderful line when his brother says "Sounds like she has enough on her plate without you and your emo bullshit making it worse" - love that someone finally calls fictional characters on their angst.
Oddly, the first two books are actually part of two different series - Kelly Hunter seems to get involved in series where different authors write books in the series - this is the third one of hers I have read which is part of a multi-author series.
Eli Jackson, the youngest of three brothers who own a family boat building business is a bit anti-social, His girlfriend died five years ago and he has never got over it, Every Friday night he plays some role playing game with a group of friends, including a girl whose name is Fuzzy. On this Friday the other two players haven't turned up so Eli gets his brothers to help out. Soon they have wheedled all sorts of information out of Fuzzy, or Zoey as she is really called and laughingly presided over a mock wedding in the game (to get free weapons upgrades or something).
A few days later Eli's brother tells him that he has asked Zoey (pretending to be Eli) if she wants to join him at a gaming conference for a week - 'apparently' he has a spare ticket and bed in a twin room because one of his friends dropped out.
Of course when Eli and Zoey arrive at the hotel they discover that his brothers couldn't resist meddling and have booked them into the Honeymoon suite!
This is a short book but packed full of humour. I loved the gaming references, the steampunk costumes and the constant eating (hey, it's New Year's Day I've been eating solidly for a week). Zoey is a feisty character, full of fun and life. Eli is a bit angsty and there is a wonderful line when his brother says "Sounds like she has enough on her plate without you and your emo bullshit making it worse" - love that someone finally calls fictional characters on their angst.
Oddly, the first two books are actually part of two different series - Kelly Hunter seems to get involved in series where different authors write books in the series - this is the third one of hers I have read which is part of a multi-author series.