Rating: 4.5🌈
Got Me Talking is the penultimate story in Casey Cox’s heartwarming series about a small Virginia town Veterinary Clinic’s doctors search for and finding their HEA.
You can feel the series winding down as the last of the characters find their partners and lasting relationships. Yet Cox’s stories remain strong and compelling, with each person getting a new chapter of their lives to move forward with their biggest dream, a person to love who loves them back.
Jeremy has been a staple in the series as this quiet baker behind the wonderful baked goods at Daley’s Bakery, a place that’s been featured throughout the series. He’s grown as a character but now gets his story and HEA.
One of the major element here is stuttering. Jeremy has suffered in the past because of the rejection and mistreatment he’s endured due to his struggles with speech. Only with Tyler, a former Vet Shop Boy veterinarian and his best friend, and the other vets and partners, does he feel accepted.
The newest hire at the Vet Shop Boys is an older English veterinarian, who’s relocating to the US for personal reasons. Montgomery is in storage, emotionally and almost physically. He’s committed to a rental property and still grieving the loss of his mother, as well as getting over his divorce.
Cox sets up a chance meeting with both men that’s believable, incredibly sexy, and lets us inside each of their minds as something unexpected happens between them.
It also helps us understand the need for communication when the logical moment arrives where they meet again. And the difficulties that arise when it doesn’t happen.
I love the way Cox is able to pull the reader into the world of these characters to the point where we sense their insecurities, their need for shielding themselves from being exposed emotionally. That’s on both sides. Montgomery is also frail, but his quiet, almost frozen demeanor hides the turmoil threatening to come out whereas Jeremy’s fears carry forth with every word he utters.
Their relationship is slow and moving. I wish it was longer. The age gap and health issues had some surprises towards the end.
It’s that ending that’s shows more than anything the series is almost at a close. We’re not in Virginia anymore.
And that’s ok.
One more unhappy vet to get his HEA in Got Me Feeling and then the series is done.
It’s a lovely show. I’m thrilled to see Jeremy get his romance and happy ending. There’s realistic elements but I expect that from the series and author.
It’s why I’m recommending this and the entire series. Well written, wonderful characters and plots of interesting elements, moving scenes, sexy, and warm-hearted. Love it!
Vet Shop Boys series so far:
✓ Got Me Hoping #1
✓ Got Me Wishing #2
✓ Got Me Looking #3
✓ Got Me Thinking #4
✓ Got Me Going #5
✓ Got Me Merry #6
✓ Got Me Talking #7
â—¦ Got Me Feeling #8 – finale Oct 23,2023
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Got Me Talking (Vet Shop Boys Book 7)
Description:
What do you call a herd of rhinos? A crash. That about sums up my life, too.
Having spent the last three years caring for my dying mother, I need a new leash on life. So I say goodbye to the UK and take a job opening at a small-town vet clinic in the US.
Via a layover in New York. Where I get, ahem, laid over.
With a man.
Not something I’ve ever done in my forty-three years.
Not something I intend on repeating.
Which won’t be a problem since I’ll never see the guy again… Until I step into the local bakery.
There’s no way anything can happen between Jeremy and me. I’m lost, grieving, and, oh yeah, straight. He also happens to be fifteen years younger than me. So what is it about the sexy baker that’s suddenly got me talking?
Got Me Talking is book 7 in the Vet Shop Boys series and can be read as a stand-alone. Expect a silver fox British vet having a bi awakening, an adorable baker with a stutter, age gap, plenty of humor, found family, and a heartwarming happily ever after!
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