Breakfast at Midnight

Reviewed by Erin for Diverse Reader

From the blurb, I was anticipating a really sweet meet cute about an older guy getting over a divorce and a younger famous musician trying to figure out his life. Breakfast at Midnight by Kim Dias IS that but unfortunately not much else. I'm a huge fan of age-gap romances and even the twenty-six year difference between Fred and Callum (though a bit more than I usually come across) wasn't too much for me to go along with but more the whole tone of the book. At only 66 pages, there sure isn't a lot of time for character development but I felt like I missed a whole lot of who these guys are.

I really liked the premise of how Fred and Callum met...over late-night breakfast at Denny's, thus the title. And it did make sense for how these two got to know one another but unfortunately I just didn't really buy into Fred and Callum as being in a relationship. Things were awkward and Fred is SO hot and cold...it was all a bit confusing. Throw in a fragile relationship between Fred and his adult daughter on top of some bitterness and unresolved feelings for his ex-husband and Fred was really confusing. I definitely would have preferred the story to focus solely on Fred and Callum instead.

All in all, not a bad story, it just fell a bit short execution wise. I did enjoy it enough to keep an eye out for more of Kim Dias's work in the future. This might be a case of it's me not the book, so check it out and see what you think!