Friday, September 7, 2018

Love in the Clouds by Sarah Hadley Brook Blog Tour


Rafael Patino has a great life in Rain Valley. He’s a teacher at the high school, has a great group of friends, and enjoys the occasional baseball game. Other than the sporadic call from his drunken mother, he’s pretty content.

He’s also been in love with his best friend Dustin for nearly a decade. Years of keeping those feelings under control are put to the test when they begin a summer project together.

Dustin Vance builds furniture for a living, has just earned his pilot’s license, and has an amazing best friend. When he buys a 1976 Cessna Skyhawk, he asks Rafael to help restore it, then travel with him to Wisconsin for the largest aviation convention in the world.

As they spend their days working on the plane, they begin to spend their nights together. Will they find love in the clouds, or will they stall out before they even take off?

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A cool breeze blew past him as he walked into the night. Rafael texted Dustin before he pulled out of the parking lot, letting him know he was leaving and asking about Mac’s phone number. But since Dustin was probably sound asleep, he’d likely have to get that number after sunup.

As he turned onto his street, he saw a vehicle in his drive—Dustin’s Honda. His best friend had a key, so was probably inside.

He eventually found Dustin sprawled on his sofa, sound asleep, his arm crooked over his head. Rafael felt drawn to him like a magnet, but being too damned tired to fight his urges, he let himself look. Dustin’s T-shirt had ridden up, showing a stripe of pale skin, and Rafael imagined it soft and silky. His fingers itched to slip under the hem. He stared a little too long, though, and by the time he dragged up his gaze to Dustin’s face, he found his friend staring back at him, smirking.

“You want to take a picture of… something?” he drawled teasingly.

Heat flooded Rafael’s cheeks and he forced a chuckle. “Whatever.”

Dustin rose and hugged him hard, as if just remembering what had happened. “God, I’m so sorry, Raf. Is the girl going to be okay?”

Rafael nodded, but wrapped Dustin in his arms, his head falling on the man’s shoulder. They stayed like that for a while. With anyone else, Rafael might have been embarrassed that he was fighting the urge to cry. Dustin held him tight and shared his strength. It crept into Rafael, shored him up. Helped him get past the image of Daisy huddled in that hospital bed. At least for a while.

When he finally pulled away, Dustin kept his arms around him and Rafael was too exhausted to read anything into it.

“Why are you here?”

“Because I know you, Raf. I know you care about your students—you open your heart to everyone. But I also know you’ve been particularly worried about this girl. I just didn’t want you coming home to an empty house.”

Rafael’s heart cracked more and he felt raw, open, and vulnerable. The world had reared its ugly head and shown its hideousness. He also felt lonely. Bone tired and so lonely. And he didn’t want to be lonely. At least not for the night. He swallowed hard. “Will you… stay?”

Dustin nodded, no hint of hesitation in his blue-green eyes. “Is there anything else I can do?”




Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Angie☆☆☆☆
This was a super sweet love story. Raf and Dusty have been best friends for years. Raf has loved him for years. Dusty took longer to realize he had the best of both worlds with Rusty. The chemistry was good, and I felt like I knew Raf a little more than Dusty, but that didn't bother me much. I did like how their group of close friends saw them as a couple way before they did. That's when you know they are good together. I learned wayyyyyy too much about airplanes and at one point, I was like if they go to that damn hanger one more time!!! I actually wanted to see more about their trip, but that part went fast and then the book was over. I enjoyed this book. If you want a sweet friends-to-lovers book with no angst, this is a good pick.


Veronica☆☆☆
Love in the Clouds is a sweet friends-to-lovers romance about Rafael and Dustin, who have been best friends for 10 years. I really appreciated having a romance between two regular guys. Raf is a high school teacher and Dustin is a furniture maker who has a passion for flying. The guys spend the summer fixing up Dustin's plane. I loved the time the guys spent together, enjoying each other's company and falling in love, and the build-up to the two of them finally hitting the sheets was well done.

But I had a few issues with this book that meant I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped I would. Firstly, there is far too much show and not enough tell, which makes it hard to get emotionally connected with the story. There were a few tiny things that didn't quite gel in this book. Raf not knowing that Dustin was nerd in high school even through they've been friends for 10 years, the occasional phrase that didn't seem to fit, that sort of thing.

I did really enjoy the final scenes in the book and they had me smiling. It was easy to imagine myself in their place and to feel their joy. 3 stars from me.



Sarah Hadley Brook lives smack-dab in the middle of the Heartland and is the mother of two wonderful young men, as well as two cats. During the day, she works in the nonprofit world, but reserves evenings for her hobby-turned-passion of writing, letting the characters she conjures in her mind take the lead and show her where the story will go. When not working or writing, she can be found reading, working on dollhouses, trying her hand at new recipes, or watching old movies and musicals. In her ideal world, Christmas would come at least twice a year, Rock Hudson and Doris Day would have costarred in more than three movies, and chocolate would be a daily necessity. She dreams of traveling to Scotland some day and visiting the places her ancestors lived. Sarah believes in “Happily Ever After” and strives to ensure her characters find their own happiness in love and life.

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