Husband Skills by Cassie Mint
by Cassie Mint
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My big, scary boss wants to practice his husband skills…
On me.
Kingston Holt ain’t the kind of man you marry. Everyone knows that. He’s too big, too mean, too rough around the edges. He roars around town on a giant motorbike, and rumor has it he did time when he was a young man.
These days, he owns the bar where I serve drinks and scrub tables. He’s strict as hell, and he stares at me an awful lot lately.
Then one day he calls me into his office and tells me he’s ready to settle down. Ready to find a nice girl. But first he wants to rehearse.
Oh god, why did I agree to help?
And why does it kill me that this is fake?
This is messy as can be…
- File Name:husband-skills-by-cassie-mint.epub
- Original Title:Husband Skills
- Creator:Cassie Mint
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B0CF2TVMS5
- Publisher:Black Cherry Publishing
- Date:2023-09-06T16:00:00+00:00
- File Size:911.353 KB
Table of Content
- 1. 1. Dani
- 2. 2. Kingston
- 3. 3. Dani
- 4. 4. Kingston
- 5. 5. Dani
- 6. 6. Kingston
- 7. 7. Dani
- 8. 8. Kingston
- 9. 9. Dani
- 10. 10. Kingston
- 11. Teaser: Fight Dirty
- 12. About the Author
Cassie Mint
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Short and sweet
Husband Skills, Book 3 of the Marrying the Boss mini-series, was about Danielle "Dani" (no last name ever given), a bartender/waitress, and Kingston Holt, the owner of a bar called King's. Side Note: Although the author mentioned that the MMC was at least ten years older than the FMC, no exact ages were given. Rumors had it that Kingston had spent time in jail as a younger man, so everyone tended to either avoid him or were frightened of him. Apparently, that included women too because he mentioned, a few times, that he hadn't dated much (if at all) since high school, and not at all since prison. With that thought, it was possible that the MMC was a virgin like the FMC. Dani had worked at King's bar for six months before he asked her to help him to be a good husband. He wanted to "fake date" and be a "fake husband" so she could teach him what he was doing wrong before he went in search of "the right woman". She agreed to do it, but she didn't ask for anything in return. For such a short novella, it definitely dragged the fluff n stuff that wasn't necessary, as well as being totally repetitive. I gave up counting how many times the author had the FMC mention that the MMC had been in prison, or that he had scars all over his body, or how everyone else in town except her was terrified of Kingston. Oh, and she definitely had him labeled as someone who didn't know how to treat a lady like...well, a lady. She was surprised by where he took her on their first date. As for the MMC, he kept referring to the FMC as "my pretty bartender". That got old quick as well. The author made him out to be almost illiterate with his speech and attitude. At one point the way she had him talking, I got the image of Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies (not that I think of Hagrid as illiterate, but I'm saying that his manner of speech was similar to the MMC's in this book). The grammar in this story was what some would call "hick talk". It wasn't prettied up, it wasn't upscale, and it wasn't refined. Which normally I wouldn't have a problem with. Well, I didn't have a problem with THAT per se, but what bothered me was that the author chose to use "hick talk" (I got a Forrest Gump vibe from the language style) but then tried throwing in "fancy" words like "vivarium", but then she went back to words like "nyuh", then back to big words like "discombobulated". That wasn't cool, and it was uncomfortable to read. While I don't mind hick talk, this felt more like the author was making fun of her own characters and "dumbing them down". If an author is going to write in slang, they should stick to it and not try to dress it up with words that are "too big" for the rest of the story. While it was a cute read, it wasn't the best story I've ever read. It had too many issues for such a short novella, and it left much to be desired. It had the potential to be a better book, but the author dropped the ball too many times. I couldn't give it more than a two-star rating.
Corny, but not the worst thing in the world. Her typical story.