Bottle Rocket (So Over the Holidays #3)
by Erin McLellan
Genre: Contemporary, 18+ Romance
Publication: June 15th 2020
Publisher: Erin McLellan
Source: Review copy from A Novel Take PR – Thank You
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Rating: ✵✵✵✵

Freshly single Rosie Holiday is on the hunt for passion and excitement. This leads her to Leo Whittaker—a bad boy who waltzed out of town, and her life, thirteen years ago. Leo isn’t the type to stick around, but Rosie’s not going to let a no-strings opportunity pass her by.

When a business trip sends Leo back to his hometown, the last thing he expects is for his first love to hand him a list of scorching-hot escapades and a deadline. He’s happy to help Rosie discover her bossy side in the bedroom. Or in a fireworks stand. Or at a Fourth of July barbecue.

Their chemistry burns bright and fast, but what tore them apart years ago is still between them. They are polar opposites. A reserved kindergarten teacher and an irreverent artist. A nester and a wanderer. It will take a spark of imagination and a lot of love to keep their second-chance romance from flaming out.

Bottle Rocket is a queer second chances romance that releases today (June 15, 2020). Happy book birthday Erin!!!!

WARNING: this is an adult read and there are graphic depictions of female with male and male with male sex. There is also an orgy at a sex party (m/f/f/m), but that is not delved into all that descriptively. All sexual encounters are respectful and consensual.

Bottle Rocket is the third book in the So Over the Holidays series, but each can be read as a standalone. While there are cross over characters, each book has a different main character and a different Holiday is celebrated. The first book focuses on Middle sister Sasha and Christmas, the second book being about baby brother Benji and Valentine’s day. Then this the third book focuses on the eldest sister Rosie and the fourth of July.

I enjoyed meeting Benji and William, and experiencing their romance in Candy Hearts, so I jumped at the chance to read Bottle Rocket. I went in with high expectations and I’m pleased to say that I wasn’t disappointed. Now I just need Erin McLellan to write a queer holiday romance that has some leading lesbians, or a lesbian and a bisexual, and then this series would be real winner for me.

STORY SUMMARY: Rosie divorced and down on herself, runs into ex Leo at a painting class – Leo unexpectedly is the naked male model. After 13 years the two reconnect via a six day no strings attached sex pact. Throughout their weeklong fuck fest, both keep battling their old resurfacing emotions.

Happily, by the end of the story, Rosie has found herself again – Yes, the story isn’t all about sex, there are important messages of finding fulfillment within one’s self, the importance of family and friendship and balance.

I really appreciated the Epilogue of two years later, checking in on the characters and how their relationship has progressed – it made for a happy and heart-warming ending.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is after a super cute romantic pick-me-up type read – if you can handle the heat.
All in all, Bottle Rocket is a super cute, hot, humorous, and fun second chance at love story.
A happily-ever-after read, that I thoroughly enjoyed.

About the author: Erin McLellan is the author of the Farm College, So Over the Holidays, and Storm Chasers series. She enjoys writing happily ever afters that are earthy, emotional, quirky, humorous, and very sexy. Originally from Oklahoma, she currently lives in Alaska and spends her time dreaming up queer contemporary romances set in the Great Plains. She is a lover of chocolate, college sports, antiquing, Dr Pepper, and binge-worthy TV shows.

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