Rating: 4.5🌈
What a delicious treat Kim Fielding’s new book turns out to be. Starting with that fabulously evocative cover by Reese Dante to the historically vibrant setting of New Orleans, Kim Fielding has a winner. The Big Easy of the series title, New Orleans, with its ghosts, the unsettling atmosphere and mixture of peoples, culture, and the history that comes with that is the perfect setting for a unusual love story.
Kim Fielding’s character, writer Flip Devin is a lost man. He’s ended a relationship, can’t finish his novel, left a place, a state, he’s drifting. Now he’s landed in New Orleans for a few months, hoping for inspiration and quiet moments to unblock his creative process. Fielding delivers a most believable Flip in all his stress, his indecision, and his real anxiety at this point in his life. We feel him floundering and we get him.
The beauty of the narrative is the author’s ability to make us feel what Flip is feeling, connecting us to his journey through the streets and history of New Orleans, as he engages with the diverse community the Big Easy has to offer, living and the ghostly.
So many amazing , beautifully crafted elements and characters to be found here , from Scratch himself (I would love to hear more about him and his music), to the nightlife scenes that few others can see. Man of His Dreams just flew by as I was so caught up in the world, relationships, and story. Just love it.
I definitely recommend reading this and can’t wait to see what further joys this series brings.
A Hot Nights in the Big Easy series-7 books:
🔷Man Of His Dreams by Kim Fielding ❤️
🔷Mutual Obsessions by L. A. Kaye 9/15
🔷The Richmond Vampire by Liv Rancourt 9/17/2024
🔷Voodoo Caught by Lynn Michaels 9/18/2025
🔷Banjo by TL Travis 9/20/2024
🔷Tagged by Rachel Langella 9/24/2024
🔷The Bone Doctor by D. K. Sutton 9/27/2024
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Man of His Dreams: A Hot Nights in the Big Easy Novella
Blurb
Author Flip Devin has arrived in New Orleans with no suitcase, no inspiration to continue his newest novel, and no hope. Then he begins getting dreamtime visits from Scratch, a handsome musician who was murdered a hundred years ago. According to the fortuneteller across the street, Flip has the gift of Seeing.
Soon after, Flip meets Tony Bergeron, a charming local historian… who looks remarkably like Scratch. Both Tony and Scratch have stories to tell, and New Orleans has magic to share. But with the suitcase still in airline limbo, Flip realizes he’ll need to get rid of his baggage to make room for something new.
- Publisher: Tin Box Press (September 6, 2024)
- Publication date: September 6, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 146 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 