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Revving It Up #1-3
Revving It Up: Box Set
The best-selling gay romance trilogy by W.S. Long is now available in a box set! Contains the
Starting His Athletic and handsome, Florida boy Caleb Youngblood has always wanted to race stock cars like his father and his brother. When Caleb falls in love with Sebastian Rush, a sports writer, he knows he must make a decision. Will he stay in the closet and follow his dream, or can he make a life with Sebastian and follow his heart?
Too Tough to Caleb and Sebastian are inching towards their wedding day. But as they plan for their special day together, Caleb is drawn back to stock car racing and Seb is being pulled into another direction by a former lover. Is their love strong enough to overcome these issues? Or is their life together too tough to tame?
With the prospect that he cannot return to racecar driving, Caleb worries about the future as Sebastian presses to have kids. Cujo has always wondered what would have happened if he wasn't afraid of being with another man. When Cujo meets Tristan, Caleb and Sebastian's roommate, can he overcome his fears to find love in a new way?
Starting His Athletic and handsome, Florida boy Caleb Youngblood has always wanted to race stock cars like his father and his brother. When Caleb falls in love with Sebastian Rush, a sports writer, he knows he must make a decision. Will he stay in the closet and follow his dream, or can he make a life with Sebastian and follow his heart?
Too Tough to Caleb and Sebastian are inching towards their wedding day. But as they plan for their special day together, Caleb is drawn back to stock car racing and Seb is being pulled into another direction by a former lover. Is their love strong enough to overcome these issues? Or is their life together too tough to tame?
With the prospect that he cannot return to racecar driving, Caleb worries about the future as Sebastian presses to have kids. Cujo has always wondered what would have happened if he wasn't afraid of being with another man. When Cujo meets Tristan, Caleb and Sebastian's roommate, can he overcome his fears to find love in a new way?
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 18, 2018
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W.S. Long
27 books54 followersMarried; lawyer; gay veteran; plant-based lifestyle; traveler; he/him/his; lover of books, and weaver of tales, mostly as happily-ever-afters.
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August 9, 2019
This one was just OK for me.
I really wish that I could have given this series a higher rating. I'd never read anything by this author before and I was intrigued by the blurb; it's also the first MM romance I've read about a race car driver.
I had several issues with this book. I think the editing left much to be desired. Too many repetitive phrases, words, and just plain unneeded stuff. There were also way too many missing words. I don't normally take away stars because of missing words but this is a boxed set of books that have been out for a while; I just don't think there should be as many errors as I found.
I don't want anyone who reads this to think that this boxed set was horrible, it wasn't. I really like the premise for each of the three stories. I think with proper editing they could have been really good. Here's an example of what I mean: At the end of Starting His Engine Caleb announces that he's returning to college. Then in Too Touch to Tame there is no mention of that at all and he's back to racing cars again.
If the Revving It Up Box Set had been self-published, I might be a bit more forgiving but whoever was responsible for this at the publisher really missed the mark. This could have been a really good series and I feel a bit bad for the author.
I'd rate the story line at 4 stars but overall the series was more like a 2.5 due to the poor editing. I've generously rounded that up to a 3.
A copy of this book was provided to me but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author.
I really wish that I could have given this series a higher rating. I'd never read anything by this author before and I was intrigued by the blurb; it's also the first MM romance I've read about a race car driver.
I had several issues with this book. I think the editing left much to be desired. Too many repetitive phrases, words, and just plain unneeded stuff. There were also way too many missing words. I don't normally take away stars because of missing words but this is a boxed set of books that have been out for a while; I just don't think there should be as many errors as I found.
I don't want anyone who reads this to think that this boxed set was horrible, it wasn't. I really like the premise for each of the three stories. I think with proper editing they could have been really good. Here's an example of what I mean: At the end of Starting His Engine Caleb announces that he's returning to college. Then in Too Touch to Tame there is no mention of that at all and he's back to racing cars again.
If the Revving It Up Box Set had been self-published, I might be a bit more forgiving but whoever was responsible for this at the publisher really missed the mark. This could have been a really good series and I feel a bit bad for the author.
I'd rate the story line at 4 stars but overall the series was more like a 2.5 due to the poor editing. I've generously rounded that up to a 3.
A copy of this book was provided to me but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author.
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