Title: Experimental Marine Biology
Series: Chemistry Lessons #5
Series: Chemistry Lessons #5
Author: Susannah Nix
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: June 15, 2020
Release Date: June 15, 2020
Blurb
“Just friends” is all Brooke and Dylan have ever been.
(Except for that one night in high school, but they don’t talk about
that.) Growing up, he was her protector. Her confidante. The one guy
she could always trust.
Now she’s a marine biologist working toward her PhD in California, and he’s an underwear model in New York. Dylan’s only in town for a few days, crashing on Brooke’s couch and repaying the favor by acting as her date to a friend’s wedding.
It was totally an accident she saw him naked.
After that, “just friends” goes out the window in favor of friends with benefits.
It’s all going great…until it isn’t.
Dylan’s got a ticket back to New York at the end of the week, and Brooke may have accidentally broken his heart. Can they navigate these uncharted relationship waters? Or has she tanked her oldest friendship?
Now she’s a marine biologist working toward her PhD in California, and he’s an underwear model in New York. Dylan’s only in town for a few days, crashing on Brooke’s couch and repaying the favor by acting as her date to a friend’s wedding.
It was totally an accident she saw him naked.
After that, “just friends” goes out the window in favor of friends with benefits.
It’s all going great…until it isn’t.
Dylan’s got a ticket back to New York at the end of the week, and Brooke may have accidentally broken his heart. Can they navigate these uncharted relationship waters? Or has she tanked her oldest friendship?
Caroline's Review
4 Stars
Thoroughly enjoyable friends-to-lovers story.
"Being attracted to Dylan's body was regrettably unavoidable. Being attracted to him was absolutely off-limits."
Brooke and Dylan have been best friends since they were kids. They've maintained contact but haven't actually seen one another for six years. He lives in NYC and busy with his modelling job. She's in LA working on her PhD as a marine biologist. However, she welcomes him to stay at her home while he's in town for work and then some downtime.
"I'm an open book. You just haven't read all the pages yet."
When an awkward moment takes their relationship from platonic to sexual, things start to heat up between them. Unfortunately, do they both have a shared endgame?
"Kissing him was sunshine and rainbows and puppies and chocolate cake, but it also made her hot all over."
This story was fun, sweet, and heated. Brooke and Dylan had a fantastic friend dynamic but, as a romantic couple, they were even better. Dylan, in spite of being a model, was charmingly modest, and extrovert without being cocky. I loved him as a hero. He was also sweetly vulnerable where Brooke was concerned - she was definitely his soft spot. Brooke was a smart, independent woman but not very adept at relationships and, unfortunately, it made her believe something about herself that wasn't true. Overall, a really enjoyable story!
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Excerpt
Dylan was naked.
In her living room.
Right in front of her.
Not in a dream, but in real life.
His ass cheeks flexed as he stooped over his suitcase, and hisheard herself gasp, and Dylan spun around, giving her the full-frontal experience.
There wasn’t a lot of light in the room, but there was enough.
To see everything.
Everything.
For a second they both stood there frozen in shock. Brooke withglory. Completely naked and hot as hell.
“Shit!” he yelped, belatedly trying to cover himself with the pair of underwear in his hand. “I thought you were asleep!”
Brooke covered her eyes and turned her back on him. “I thought you were in the shower!”
“I was letting the room fill up with steam to sweat off a little more water weight, but I forgot to grab clean underwear.”
Brooke swallowed, trying to ignore the image of Dylan’s penis that was now permanently seared into her brain. “Okay. Cool. Well…uh…looks like you’ve got them now.”
“Yeah. So. I’m gonna go back into the bathroom.”
Keeping her eyes directed at the floor and her hand up to shield Dylan’s still incredibly naked body from her view, Brooke moved aside so he could get past her to the bathroom. “Cool. Yep. I’m just gonna go…” She waved in the direction of the kitchen with the hand that wasn’t covering her eyes. “Make some coffee or whatever.”
“Okay. Good.”
“Cool.” Why was she saying cool so much? Nothing about this was cool! It was the opposite of cool. It was…
Hot, actually.
Except no. It was Dylan, and she did not want to think about him like that. Okay, she wanted to, but she shouldn’t.
In her living room.
Right in front of her.
Not in a dream, but in real life.
His ass cheeks flexed as he stooped over his suitcase, and hisheard herself gasp, and Dylan spun around, giving her the full-frontal experience.
There wasn’t a lot of light in the room, but there was enough.
To see everything.
Everything.
For a second they both stood there frozen in shock. Brooke withglory. Completely naked and hot as hell.
“Shit!” he yelped, belatedly trying to cover himself with the pair of underwear in his hand. “I thought you were asleep!”
Brooke covered her eyes and turned her back on him. “I thought you were in the shower!”
“I was letting the room fill up with steam to sweat off a little more water weight, but I forgot to grab clean underwear.”
Brooke swallowed, trying to ignore the image of Dylan’s penis that was now permanently seared into her brain. “Okay. Cool. Well…uh…looks like you’ve got them now.”
“Yeah. So. I’m gonna go back into the bathroom.”
Keeping her eyes directed at the floor and her hand up to shield Dylan’s still incredibly naked body from her view, Brooke moved aside so he could get past her to the bathroom. “Cool. Yep. I’m just gonna go…” She waved in the direction of the kitchen with the hand that wasn’t covering her eyes. “Make some coffee or whatever.”
“Okay. Good.”
“Cool.” Why was she saying cool so much? Nothing about this was cool! It was the opposite of cool. It was…
Hot, actually.
Except no. It was Dylan, and she did not want to think about him like that. Okay, she wanted to, but she shouldn’t.
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Author Bio
Susannah Nix is a RITA® Award-winning author of contemporary
romance who lives in Texas with her husband, two ornery cats, and a
flatulent pit bull. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, cooking,
knitting, watching stupid amounts of television, and getting distracted by
Tumblr. She is also a powerlifter who can deadlift as much as Captain America
weighs.
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