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.
Jacqueline Rohrbach is an asexual/aromantic author of queer romance and speculative fiction. Her books focus on offbeat characters caught up in strange, sometimes absurd situations where they have to grow with each other in order to save the day. She loves her cinnamon roll alphas with extra icing, her sarcastic ladies with the spine to back their spunk, and her antiheroes with the softest of soft spots for the love of their life. Currently, she’s the author of four full-length novels and three novellas. When she’s not writing, you can find her walking with her two dogs, Mulder and Nibbler or trying to catch a nap.
Jacqueline Rohrbach dips into the paranormal genre with ease in her latest release, Come on, Get Lucky. Longtime friends, Lee, a vampire, and Grant, a wolf, feature in this comedic mystery story that is peppered with sarcastic dialogue, genuine affection, and a lethal killer who likes to glamor his victims and then expose them to the sun. The action mostly takes place in the last third of the novel and I must admit to finding the beginning half a bit slow for my liking. There just seems to be an awful lot of the same kind of reaction from Grant—wondering what is wrong with Lee, but oblivious to all the signs that the guy is so obviously in love with him.
I don't know, something was a miss for me. I hated that Lee brings Grant to this vampire party and grant is pretty much mocked throughout. Lee supposedly wants Grant but immediately his up with someone else there. I dismemberment geek any Dunedin between the two and to be honest I didn't think Lee was even good, let alone Good for grant
I sat on writing this review for awhile because the more I thought about it, the more I realized everything about this story is the opposite of what I expected. When you meet Grant, you see he's a sweetheart who only wants someone to settle down with, but the way he goes about it is strange. He dates humans (and in this world they know all about werewolves), although he wants his best friend who's a vampire, and in order to see if humans will accept him, he shifts in front of them without warning.
Then the mood shifts from Grant wanting a forever relationship to Lee, his best friend, trying to get him laid at a vampire get together in the mountains, which was never really explained. Grant is uncomfortable thinking of Lee with a human in a sexual way, declares himself a one man kind of guy, and then when things get serious with Lee, he's off to have sex with a human he'd saved, although he pictures Lee when he's doing it. Then the quasi romance, or potential romance leads into a murder mystery and ends with a kinda HFN. The story was in the POV of Grant, so you get an angsty, will I or won't I kind of decision making and then in the end, it's not really clear why the two want to be together.
Despite me finishing the book, waiting for something true to connect the two men, it wasn't what I expected nor did it leave me with a sense of anything but confusion as to why these two men would get together.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Come On, Get Lucky by Jacqueline Rohrbach is a paranormal romance with a mystery to solve. 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.
Come On, Get Lucky is a book with a lot going on. Lee and Grant are good friends, and neither has had much luck in the love department. From the description of the book I thought Grant's size was going to be mentioned more in the story, but I found that his werewolf nature tended to get much more attention than his size. The friends to more aspect between Lee and Grant was both charming and frustrating. Grant was trying so hard to be good, and the set up by Lee that is mentioned in the blurb is much more of a question in the actual story of whether his efforts were on purpose or just kind of happening. I would have liked some more of the story clearly from Lee's point of view and maybe a conversation or two between the two that could have moved things along much quicker romantically but still left plenty of room for the drama and danger aspects of the story. I really liked the side stories about the rabbit and 'stalker'. I found that the dichotomy of the vampire and werewolf fighting over and caring for a bunny sweet and fun. I also found how both were so distracted that they missed the clues about how something more sinister than someone unhappy to be turned down was happening until the stakes were raised. There were some serious twists and turns, and I was always curious about just what would happen next.
Come On, Get Lucky is a good book, with a lot going on. I just might be looking for the author's backlist for more good reads.
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.
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.
Grant - a big guy, a ridiculously large werewolf, a wonderful police officer, unlucky in love.
Lee - smaller than normal vampire, very talkative, opinionated, also unlucky in love.
Grant is currently dating a guy and he thinks its time to show him his wolf. Wanting so badly to be loved for who he is, taking unnecessary chances seems to be his go to method. When David bolts after seeing his true form and posts a fabricated video of him, he decides to take Lee up on his offer to get out of town for a week.
Lee is also reeling from a breakup. Being the ever opinionated roommate he is. The vampire advises Grant against revealing himself to David. Constant reminders he isn't the one. Grant says no, does it anyway...heartbreak ensues.
Both guys go out of town to a party for various shifters and humans. This was supposed to be a trip to unwind, blow off steam, have fun.
Another punch int he gut, Lee's ex shows up with his new love.
Weird only becomes progressively worse. Not only are too many coincidental accidents happening, both Lee and Grant have too much time to dwell on their true emotions for on another. Sharing a room didn't exactly help matters.
Why are things being sabotaged? What is that lingering odor Grant seems to pickup? Who is trying to kill vampires? Or maybe him? Who is the vampire Grant named 'Tattoo' that keeps lusting after him? In the midst of the now investigation, Grant misses all the neon signs from Lee. Everyone sees it but him. No surprise there.
To have love in his life, Grant must save the love of his life.
Solve a mystery, find a bunny, fall in love, laugh a lot, get the man he's secretly pined over.
(I hope to see more from this couple. The story ended more on a HFN instead of a HEA).
**I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.**
“The Dragon's Rebel” was enjoyable and I could care less for “Parallel Larry”, so stepping into this read I already knew it could be a hit or miss. Thankfully it was a hit.
“Come On, Get Lucky” is about a werewolf, Grant, who is a hopeless romantic that had his fair of bad luck when it comes to romance and his snarky vampire best friend, Lee, who decides to take him with him to a vampire clan retreat where all supernatural and non-supernatural beings are welcome. It’s essentially a spot where they can hook up with other beings and not have to worry about commitments or drama.
Overall it was a fun, banter-filled read that had aspects of romance, hot chemistry, ex-boyfriends, and a runaway bunny (hence cover).
Grant is a massive werewolf and has been searching for love for a while. But when it comes time to show his significant others his wolf they all back away and run off in fear. Newly single, Grant is just about ready to give up on love. His best friend Lee, who is a vampire decides to take it on himself to get Grant back out there and find love; and how better to do it then taking a much needed vacation away. Grant and Lee have been best friends for years, neither one of them risking finding love with each other. But both have been giving off mixed singles and Grant thinks it may be time to finally act on his attraction for Lee. Despite this new blossoming romance, both men are weary when a crazy stalker sets their sights on them - any hopes of moving beyond friends might be destroyed before they can have their HEA.
This novel was really engaging, funny and just different. It gets boring reading the same, traditional romance plots so I was fascinated with the love story this novel was telling. Lee is by far by favorite character, I absolutely loved his interactions with the bunny and his horror over Grant saying he would eat it. The fact he even made it a sweater, this just gave me all the laughs. I haven't read anything by this author before, but after reading this book I am genuinely excited to see what she writes next and I will definitely be reading it!
Grant, after yet another dating disaster of coming out of the paranormal werewolf closet to his human boyfriend, is in dire need of a distraction. Especially since said ex is posting all sorts of embarrassing and untrue things online about his near-miss with a monster (aka Grant). Lee, Grant's BFF is also nursing his relationship war wounds after yet another dating debacle. So, Lee invites Grant to his vampire clan's out of town soiree so they can mix it up and basically ONS their miseries away.
I love discovering new-to-me authors AND new-to-me paranormal series', so jumped on the chance to review Come On, Get Lucky. Plus, I've kind of fallen into a gay romance rabbit hole lately and this book seemed a little kismet to pass up.
Not only do we get a friends-to-lovers romance but also a whodunnit. Yay! I will say we get a very entertaining story but I felt I was missing any real chemistry between Grant and Lee. I also did not dig that they were both entertaining feels for the other but both hooked up with strangers at the party before they gave in to temptation. I'm a bit of a relationship prude that way, sorry.
I enjoyed the story and look forward to reading more from the author and hopefully more with this couple (maybe a cameo?)
*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
Grant is an amazing police officer. If only he could translate that to his personal and love life. His best friend, Lee is able to be fun and get out there. Why is it so hard to find someone?
Lee wants to help his best friend. He sees Grant as a gentle giant, and wants to help him meet someone worthy of his time and attention. Lee himself has had issues with finding someone for himself as well. Can two best friends help each other find true love?
This book was funny and charming. With a little crazy thrown in for good measure. I will not spoil the story, but I will tell you there is a little bit of everything in there. I found the humor to be silly, the banter to be fun, and the lead characters to be great to read. I found myself rooting for them pretty early on in the book.
***This early copy was given in exchange for an honest review.
Sleuthing, sarcasm and sexy times! What a fun book. This was a 'new to me' author and I'm so glad I took the chance. Rohrbach's characters shone on page and I was easily sucked into her world.
Grant, a hopeless romantic and werewolf, is in love with his best friend, a snarky vampire named Lee. In an effort to cheer Grant up after yet another romantic disaster, Lee brings Grant to a vampire clan retreat. Mischief, a runaway bunny, and ex-boyfriends throw their vacation plans out the window. Not to mention that Lee's "no friends as lovers" rule is moot when Grant and Lee's friendship hits a snag as they deal with "accidents" that turn more deadly.
The single POV was my only issue. I would have loved to be in Lee's head some. But overall a great book and I'll be looking for the author's future works,.
A werewolf and a vampire fight over a bunny. They also bicker over so many other topics. Grant and Lee and a werewolf and vampire respectively and best friends. Grant at the state has a bad break up and agrees to go with Lee to a off the grid vampire party. The relationship between the two friends seems a bit strange. Although the POV is from Grant and he is 1. Recently broken up 2. A werewolf 3. In love with his bff and trying to hide it. I got the feeling the author was trying to make a distinction between a physical encounter and a relationship. The book to me was incredibly funny. It might be an acquired taste for many but I found it a joy to read. Loved all the horrible nicknames. Didnt notice too many errors and the story had a good flow. I'd really loved to read more about this pair.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Grant is a werewolf, a very large werewolf. Lee is a not so large vampire. Best friends ( without benefits), Grant is hopelessly in love. They take a small vacation together to relax after Grant broke up with his latest boyfriend. The vacation was anything but relaxing. In fact it was almost deadly.
A whole lot of snark in this story. Most of it was cute but there was just to much. I never really felt that they belonged together. Much better friends than lovers.
The characters were nicely done though. Writing was good. I’ve never read this author. I will definitely try another one of her books.
This book was provided by the author via IndiGo Marketing & Design in exchange for an honest review. Review Copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads.
I received a copy of Come On, Get Lucky by Jacqueline Rohrbach via IndiGo Marketing & Design in exchange for an honest review. This is the second book I’ve read this year where the supposed antagonism between vampires and shifters/werewolves is an element of the plot. This book was lighter, with a wild rabbit playing an important role, and with two endearing protagonists. The fact Grant was a marshmallow of a werewolf was a refreshing change and Lee was less prince of darkness and more prince of fashion, which was fun. I was not expecting a mystery to be added to the mix, but it enhanced the story. All the more angsty books in my TBR are sinking to the bottom, as I need fluff to get through these times. This book delivered nicely.
An amusing friends to lovers story with a frisson of mystery. Grant is a werewolf who is hoping for a lasting romance with a human. It hasn't happened yet because his human boyfriends head for the hills when they see him in his wolf form. What Grant really wants is a relationship with his vampire best friend Lee.
Lee decides to cure Grant of his broken heart by taking him to spend a week at a vampire clan get together. Grant is supposed to let his werewolf hair down and party but instead they find a rabbit, lose it, find a mystery and maybe find esch other.
It was funny in places, not really gripping enough for me but I did enjoy the characters and it is a nice lighthearted read for these complex times.
Copy provided by Nine Star via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
Neither Grant nor Lee have been lucky in love. That Grant is a werewolf who is secretly in love with Lee, who happens to be a vampire is not the only reason that they have not connected. Lee is Grant's best friend. They go on a vampire retreat together - not exactly what I would have thought would be a good place to go to get together but everyone has their own way of doing things - but it is there that they move along on their bumpy, humorous and angsty road to their HEA.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I enjoyed the humour in this book, the little bit of sexy was nice too. I really liked Grant, the werewolf floofster that he is, and I loved Lee, the vampire of glitter and direct bitchy words.
This was a lot of fun and another great read from Jacqueline Rohrbach! I was rooting for Grant and Lee (kudos on the names, btw) to admit their feelings and find their happy ever after all through the book, and I'm soooo glad they did (with the inadvertent help of an enchanted bunny and a serial killer, but still lol). I wish the mystery aspect of the story was a little more fleshed out, but if you're looking for a paranormal romance with disgruntled werewolves, bitchy vampires, and a lot of dry humor, this is definitely the book for you.
One gentle giant of a werewolf and one small snarky vampire come together the make a funny friends to lovers story. Exes, a mystery to solve, and bunny to catch made this a very enjoyable read (with a crap load of snark).
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I volunteered to read this book, through netgalley in exchange, for an honest review. This book is well written and the characters are described well. It has the friends to lovers trope. The pacing of the story is good. I adore Grant's and Lee's characters. I love these paranormal romances. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. This ebook is in bookstores now for $4.99 (USD).
Grant is a gentle giant, but faces problems in his romantic life due to his large frame. Lee wants so badly to help his best friend meet someone who sees and loves him for who he is. This story is about two best friends helping each other find true love. This was a cute, fun and adorable read!
This is a friends to lovers romance with a bit of mystery thrown in. The snark that came out of Lee made me laugh on more than one occasion. Poor Grant is a besotted fool for Lee and I loved watching him come to realize it.
This book just wasn't for me. The plot was kinda interesting: a vampire and a werewolf falling in love. I just didn't like the way it was written, and the way the characters were acting. I made it to 69% of the book before deciding that I wasn't going to finish it.
I absolutely loved this book and was honored to have been able to read and review. It was such a phenomenal read and had amazing characters as well as an amazing story line. I just could not get enough of it and once I started reading it I could not put it down. I recommend that you read it.
Sorry, I just didn’t get this one. I didn’t enjoy the banter nor the story. I kept trying to get into it but I just couldn’t. Thank you to netgalley for the review.