✨Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for PARALYZE by JJ Asher!
Why you need to ONE-CLICK this book…
🔥Forbidden
🔥Brother's Best Friend
🔥Age Gap (21/34)
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Opposites Attract
🔥Grumpy/Sunshine
🔥Bi-Awakening
🔥Hurt/Comfort
ABOUT THE BOOK.
This is everything I’ve ever wanted, exactly what I’ve spent the last thirteen years denying myself of, and it’s happening in a filthy alley with the kid I swore I’d never touch.
Carey—twenty-one, flirtatious and sun-kissed, chasing a place that feels like home. His latest bright idea? Fly halfway across the world to a town he hardly remembers, to crash for the holidays with his estranged older brother who he's scarcely seen in the past sixteen years. Only to arrive on his doorstep to find that brother AWOL and the entire contents of his apartment strewn across the front lawn.
Tek—thirty-four, exhausted, and barely holding it together.
Deserted by his best friend and business partner, he's left to carry the weight of a tattoo shop in the aftermath of an affair that sent staff numbers from four to one in the space of a single afternoon. He keeps his world small, and his hookups controlled on purpose. Then Carey walks in like a damn storm, making Tek question everything he ever knew about himself. Including why he can't stop thinking about the golden tan of another man's stomach.
Tek turns Carey away but desperation rewards his persistence with a job offer, and boundaries start to blur. Tek knows better. He's spent the last decade with the world at arms length with iron clad rules that he breaks for no one, especially not the sunshine-smiling younger brother of his runaway best friend. But the more Tek resists, the more Carey leans in, and the line between right and wrong starts to look too appealing not to cross.
Abandonment may have brought them together, but loneliness is what keeps them close. And the one thing Tek swore he'd never reach for again might just give him the extra strength he's always needed.
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MY REVIEW.
3 Stars from Tiffany!
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Burn Is Putting It Mildly
In this second book of the A New Paradigm series, we get up close and personal with Tek and Carey, two men carrying a ton of emotional baggage while trying to move forward in life, possibly together. This is an age-gap romance that also leans into an opposites-attract, grumpy/sunshine dynamic.
Tek is the older and much grumpier of the two. He runs a tattoo shop with Carey's flaky brother, who has recently taken off (at 33, mind you) after discovering his girlfriend was cheating on him with one of the other tattoo artists...who also quit. Tek is left trying to keep the shop afloat while fielding constant calls from his parents about his "missing" nineteen-year-old brother and reliving a tragic accident from his past. To say this man is struggling would be an understatement.
Carey has plenty of daddy issues, so it wasn't surprising that he found himself drawn to Tek. At twenty-one, he's traveled the world trying to "find himself" before ending up back in his hometown, seemingly expecting his brother to take care of him. With his brother suddenly gone, Carey once again finds himself on his own.
Unfortunately, these two never really clicked for me. Their chemistry felt more combative than compelling, and the constant bickering started to wear on me. I found myself skimming through some of their interactions, hoping for a stronger emotional connection that never quite developed.
Overall, this was a difficult book for me to fully connect with. The storylines became increasingly convoluted as the book progressed, and I never felt invested in either the characters or their relationship. That said, the writing itself is solid, and I appreciated the epilogue, which nicely wrapped up where everyone ended up. While Paralyze wasn't my cup of tea, it works well as a standalone despite being part of a series, and I can certainly see it appealing to readers who enjoy emotionally messy characters and slower-burn romances.
MEET JJ ASHER.
I'm a professional procrastinator masquerading as an adult.
I write what I love to read, and can often be found scrolling through a spicy MM manhwa.
I'm a mental health advocate and an ally who communicates in k-pop memes.
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