Hot Potato by Allison Temple Blog Tour

As Seacroft’s resident weirdo, Avery proudly flies a lot of freak flags. It’s a constant battle to be taken seriously when everything, from his red hair to his sexuality, makes him stand out in this small town.

Small towns are also a terrible place to keep secrets, and Lincoln has a bunch of them. But his demons aren’t going to hold him back from his dream job at the Seacroft Fire Department. His life is finally coming together, until the red-haired twink with the big smile and fast mouth calls in an emergency.

Pining or the hot firefighter is Avery’s newest flag, even if he agrees to be “just friends.” For Linc, every minute with Avery is a temptation. He needs to let go of his fear and admit the truth. Linc doesn’t want to be Avery’s friend; he wants to be his everything. But just as Linc is ready to risk it all, Avery gets an unexpected offer to spread his colorful wings and fly away.

Hot Potato is an 80k slow burn friends-to-lovers contemporary MM romance. It features a fast-talking accountant who’s cooler than he thinks, the closeted firefighter who loves him more than he should, and a great big happy-sigh HEA.

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Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
This is the third book in the series, and if you have read book two, you will remember Avery well from his lessons in creating healthy juices with Oliver! I was glad that he got to have his own story, as he was pretty crushed by the experience, poor man.

He has finally managed to move out of his super-supportive uncle and aunt's house, and immediately manages to overcook a sweet potato to the extent that the fire service pay him a visit. Thus, he meets new recruit Leo, and the rest is history... well, obviously not, as never is anything quite that simple. And as we know Avery has a tendency to be super keen, but the mysterious Leo is definitely much, much less open and eager. He gets that there is chemistry between them, but he has far too much baggage to dare to hope in a good outcome.

As the two men spend more time together, and we get some insight into their painful pasts and hard fought wins, it is impossible not to want them to work it out. Amongst the angst are some lovely moments of humour and of reconciliation, which give them both better understanding of themselves and each other and can only lead to good things.

Little would one expect that an accountant and a firefighter to find much in common, but Allison Temple gives us every reason to hope.


Veronica – ☆☆☆☆
I liked a lot of things about this story. I liked Linc and his friends and colleagues at the fire station. I liked the way Linc wanted to take care of Avery. I liked the small town setting and seeing the two men mature and deal with their family issues.

What I loved about Hot Potato was Avery. For me, he stole the show (or book in this case). I loved his mishaps, his run- on sentences, his bravery at dealing with difficult events and choices in his life. It was a pleasure to spend time with Avery and follow his journey to love with Linc.

I look my time reading this book and really soaked it in. It was great. This is the story from Seacroft for now but I hope the author goes back there because I’d love to spend some more time with Avery and Linc, even if it is just a little novella, so we can be more of a peak into their future. Four happy stars from me.


Sarah – ☆☆☆☆
This is a sweet and gentle story about two men finding each other and growing into themselves. Firefighter Linc first meets Avery when he’s called out to a fire in Avery’s kitchen. With Linc firmly closeted and Avery plagued by insecurities, their connection is slow and awkward at first, but ultimately the two men make each other stronger and help each other grow.

I didn’t recognise Avery from Cold Pressed until Linc made a comment about the strange juice in his fridge. Avery certainly seems like more of an adult in this book – but his adulting is pretty slow and at the start he’s still quite dependent and insecure. The timid hot mess we meet at the start didn’t do much for me, but I love the growth we see in Avery and I love the backbone he finally develops. Linc is much more likeable at the start of the book – it’s only when we get to know him that we realise he’s even messier and less confident than Avery. Like Avery, this is the story of Linc growing into himself and coming to terms with his past.

I enjoyed the community around Avery and Linc as much as I did the two main characters. Linc’s co-workers and his and Avery’s families are complicated and likeable and I really enjoyed the way Avery and Linc grow into their relationships with the people around them.

This is a fairly slow read but I came to love both Avery and Linc and I really enjoyed their story.

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Allison Temple has been a writer since the second grade, when she wrote a short story about a girl and her horse. Her grandmother typed it out for her and said she’s never seen so many quotation marks from a seven-year-old before. Allison took that as a challenge and has gone on to try to break her previous record in all her subsequent works.

Allison lives in Toronto with her very patient husband and the world’s neediest cat. She splits her free time between writing, community theater stage management, and traveling anywhere that has good wine. Tragically, this leaves no time to clean her house.

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Cold Pressed by Allison Temple Blog Tour

No strings attached is all Oliver can offer. He's hiding a broken heart that holds him back from diving into a new relationship, but he'll go on a blind date to make his family happy. Just one date, though; he doesn't have time for love to derail his plans.

Divorced and demoted to the night shift, Nick has his own problems. He's got an ex-wife who needs him and a kid with one foot in juvie. The last thing Nick needs is to butt heads—or other body parts—with a tempting hipster who wears a sad smile on their blind date.

Their chemistry can’t be denied, though, in an argument or in bed. No strings sex is uncomplicated and that's what Nick and Oliver need. But getting into bed together is one thing. Staying out of each other’s hearts soon becomes so much more complicated than either one imagined.

Cold Pressed is an 80k contemporary MM romance. It features a smoldering bisexual single dad, a broken-hearted hipster with a thing for beet juice, and a friends-with-benefits arrangement that blooms into the HEA you've been looking for.

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Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
This is the second book in the series. I have to admit that I have not read book one yet, but could see that I would have understood a little more of Oliver's story if I had. I am also very curious about Martin and Seb's story! That said, I found this to be a well-rounded story all on its own.

Nick is a really interesting character. Divorced from his wife, with a teenage son who is facing juvie if he doesn't calm his temper, Nick has moved them back into his house so he can help straighten things out. However, it is still not going well for his son. He and his ex-wife are clearly still friends, and I loved the point when she realises who Oliver is and admires her ex's taste in men! Due to injury, he is stuck in a job that has no excitement and working a night shift, whilst his old colleagues go out and tackle fires – yet, he is still a guy doing the best he can.

Oliver is so utterly different from Nick, successful career as a lawyer, now following a plan dreamt up with an ex-boyfriend, and not really doing all that well. His discipline keeps him at it more than anything else, although Nick provides a hope of something better. As both of them get more comfortable with each other, we get to see them in their relaxed state, and it is really lovely. You can almost feel the stress fall off them whilst they are together!

With a clever plot twist and some serious issues to resolve, this is a lovely read, with some good humour and two lead characters who are really decent guys who deserve every happiness.


Veronica – ☆☆☆☆
Nick is working night shift as an emergency dispatcher while living in the same house with his ex-wife. Their teenage son, who has been in major trouble with the police, also lives with them. Oliver is trying to get his small business off the ground. A business he was supposed to start with his ex who up and left him just as they were about to start a new business and life in Seacroft.

Nick and Oliver are set up on a blind date, but with complicated lives they agree to be each other’s booty call and nothing else. It was easy to see right off the bat that this was never going to work. With plenty of stress in their lives and the time they spend their time together being the best part of their day, they were always going to end up more involved than they planned.

This is well-paced story between two regular, everyday guys. I wanted to find out where their lives were going to end up, how they’d end up together, and, if I’m honest, how long it was going to take Oliver to realise that his business was a dud. The complexities of their lives and difficult decisions that need to be made and the realities they have to face is what sucked me into this story. By the end of the story, I actually thought that Nick and Oliver were pretty brave, and I was so happy with the ending. I loved Cold Pressed. It was a very satisfying read for me.


Sarah – ☆☆☆☆
This book manages to be funny, sweet, sad, and frustrating all at the same time. This is the story of the unlikely connection between a hipster, juice bar owner and a former firefighter. Aside from crazy hot chemistry, they don’t seem to have much in common until they are forced to let each other in and give an actual relationship a chance.

Yes. Oliver is just as poncey and pretentious as his business suggests. The former lawyer is quite the hipster cliché and for most of the book he doesn’t seem to realise where he’s going a bit wrong. It’s tempting to laugh at him, but I ended up cringing in sympathy instead. Because he’s nice. And well meaning. And he’s recovering from a nasty break-up. He’s easy to love but until the end of the story, I found it difficult to take him seriously. In contrast, it is impossible not to take Nick’s life seriously. After an injury as a firefighter, he’s been relegated to a low paid desk job that barely covers his bills. He’s also supporting his son and ex-wife – with his son under house arrest. It’s impossible not to love Nick and it’s impossible not to feel huge amounts of sympathy for him.

Oliver and Nick are one of the most unlikely pairings I can remember reading. And while Oliver is oblivious to his privilege and pretentions, Nick can’t ignore the differences between them. I love the chemistry that sparks from their first meeting and I love how they soften each other’s hard edges. Oliver becomes more grounded and more human and Nick slowly allows himself to have a life, one that he can both choose and enjoy.

I enjoyed this story thoroughly and I really love that Nick’s ex-wife and his son both feel like fully fleshed and very likeable characters. This is an entertaining read about two slightly older men at crossroads in their lives.

Allison Temple has been a writer since the second grade, when she wrote a short story about a girl and her horse. Her grandmother typed it out for her and said she’s never seen so many quotation marks from a seven-year-old before. Allison took that as a challenge and has gone on to try to break her previous record in all her subsequent works.

Allison lives in Toronto with her very patient husband and the world’s neediest cat. She splits her free time between writing, community theater stage management, and traveling anywhere that has good wine. Tragically, this leaves no time to clean her house.

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