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As vain as he is beautiful, Nino Santos happily lives life waiting for the next ferry full of fairies to bring him new conquests. As long as they aren’t hirsute, he’s all in. So he's shocked to wake up after a beach party he cannot remember with a hairy naked man lying next to him.

Teddy Miller doesn’t remember the “Bear Week” party either, much less the Abercrombie & Fitch model wannabe next to him. Teddy doesn’t give two cents about appearances, but guys like Abercrombie don’t return the favor. That’s why he prefers men with extra fur and padding over carbon copy clones of perfection—a type of man Teddy is far too familiar with.

When Nino and Teddy glimpse each other the next morning, it’s loathing at first sight. Instead of exchanging phone numbers, they exchange insults and vow never to see each other again. In Provincetown, however, escaping a trick best forgotten isn’t easy. Mutual friends and chance circumstances keep Nino and Teddy in each other’s orbit. But are they fighting each other or the attraction growing between them? The answer lies amid Provincetown’s windswept dunes and the night neither of them can recall.

 

Book Review

I will be completely honest and say that when I read the description for 'When Love Gets Hairy', book three in Jacob Flores' 'Provincetown' series, I giggled off and on for two whole days. How could I not? Nino is totally and completely an Abercrombie & Fitch model, he loves the twinks who arrive on the ferry, he's arrogant, vain, shallow, and he really, really, really needs to meet his match. To have the author write his match as an older, out of shape Bear? Priceless, Jacob, simply priceless. I couldn't wait to open up this book and watch the verbal sparring commence. I was not disappointed. At. All.

The best thing ever? Watching Nino's reaction when he discovers the furry beast in his bed is just as repulsed by Nino. What? How could that be? He should be thanking his lucky stars he had the privilege of being with Nino. But, since neither of them can remember anything, it's good riddance to bad rubbish, respectively. *snort* Except Nino starts wondering if he's become as “plastic” as Teddy accused him of being and Teddy can't stop thinking about the gorgeous man. These thoughts cause serious concern, though. Nino dragged himself out of a miserable childhood where he was overweight, very poor, and rejected constantly to become a top male fashion model. Teddy had an equally miserable childhood with a stripper mother who fixated on looks, and since Teddy's broken heart in college by a “plastic” man, he has stayed with the real people, a little overweight and hairy, not waxed and sculpted. How are these two ever going to see eye-to-eye? Much less fall in love?

Oh but the author wove a tangled web running through P-Town. Everywhere Nino and Teddy went, they either ran into each other, or ran into friends who knew the other. They couldn't get away from each other and it wasn't helping the situation. Between Louie, Teddy's dog, who falls madly in love with Nino, to Jay, Teddy's friend with a heart of gold who adopts Nino as his friend, these men don't stand a chance. What was even better, though, was watching Nino thaw from being such a jerk. Granted, he was that way as a self-defense mechanism, but I loved seeing Teddy and him get to be friends, and then more. It was the absolute ultimate opposites attract, except at the very core, they weren't that different after all.

I can honestly say that, so far, this has been my favorite book of the series. I loved Nino and Teddy. The supporting cast including Irene, Jay, and Louie were fantastic and made the book even better. Thank you, Jacob, for another wonderful read that I can wholeheartedly recommend.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook, print and audio
Length	Novel, 240 pages/79020 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-January-2014
Price	$6.99 ebook, $14.99 paperback, $14.99 bundle, $19.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/when-love-gets-hairy-by-jacob-z-flores-5803-b