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A Balls to the Wall Romance Double trouble. The McMillan twins, Robin and Bobby, are renowned for their talentsâboth as fine artists and for thrilling the various men who catch their eyes. As different in style and personality as their DNA is identical, they're nonetheless best friends who divide and conquer, with Robin doing the serious painting and Bobby adding the sunny salesmanship. But when their most important client decides Bobby must wield the paintbrush, the brothers revert to childhood tactics and switch places. Then along comes Micah, a handsome doctor who's attracted to Bobby but invites Robin out to try to please his homophobic brother, and Paolo, the pain-in-the-butt client who thinks he's wooing Bobby when he's actually after Robin. Paolo harbors his own hidden pain that weirdly intersects with Robin's, but pride and privacy conspire to produce what will either be a masterpieceâor end up as Dogs Playing Poker . No library descriptions found. |
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This is a typical Tara Lain story. It’s light-hearted, a quick read, and has a HEA. As usual, reality needs to be suspended because most of this story plays loosely with the facts, which I’ll mention later. The blurb does a good job of describing the plot so I won’t add much too it.
Bobby and Robin are identical twins. Robin is the antithesis of Bobby. He’s dark, moody, snarky and wants to be left alone. Bobby is like the Sun, bright and cheerful. Together, the twins are competing to paint a mural in Paolo’s building. Bobby gets sick so Robin has to go in his stead, which he doesn’t want to do. From the beginning, Robin has to pretend to be Bobby and here are the details that make this story unbelievable. Robin wears earrings, a nose stud and has a tattoo on his neck. From all indications in the book, Bobby has none of these. Therefore, when Robin goes to the meeting, he removes his nose stud and covers up his tattoo to appear more conservative. I don’t know about anyone else, but if a person removes pierced earrings, I can still spot where they wore them. During the painting of the mural, Robin impersonates Bobby, they now both have the same hair color and Robin mimics Bobby’s gestures and voice pattern. But, does Robin always wear a turtleneck sweater to cover his tattoo when painting? Numerous times it’s mentioned how hot it was on the scaffolding up near the ceiling. Is Paolo so clueless that he doesn’t notice the tattoo on Robin but not on Bobby when he’s met both of them? How about the holes in Robin’s ears or nose because he’s not wearing his earrings or stud? I enjoyed the premise of Robin impersonating Bobby, but I find it highly doubtful that a person wouldn’t recognize the differences between the two because of the clues Robin has added to his body. So right from the start, the idea of impersonation is unbelievable. When the author writes books with a fairytale or paranormal aspect, I can see how a bit of ‘pretend’ works into the stories. However, when a romance is reality or factual based, I find it annoying when it doesn’t align with facts and ends up in the fantasy realm by leaving holes as to how a problem is solved. And this is what happened in this book.
I liked the characters. They all had their own distinct personalities and stayed true to it throughout the book. The only one who seemed to change was Robin who reminded me of Bobby closer to the end. Robin seemed to lose his edge, and his gestures and behavior skirted too close to being like Bobby.
The plot kept my interest as the twins navigated dating the man they thought they wanted, but didn’t click with.
Bleu Balls is a fun, fast, read. I wish more effort was put into making the story more factually believable since it’s not supposed to be a fairytale. As it is, be prepared to suspend belief. The characters are interesting, and if there are any more books in the series, I’ll likely read them. I give this book, 3 Stars