The Perfect Gift

They are still happy and yet there are some feelings of something missing. They need to work out how to show their commitment in the first half of the book. The second half they take on a whole new challenge and I love the way they rise to it.

The Perfect Gift is the second book in Joe Cosentino's Bobby and Paolo's Holiday Stories series.

We catch up with Bobby and Paolo a year later. They've been together this past year, and Bobby's now a junior lawyer.

This story discusses the importance of marriage for health decisions, death, etc. I love when a story can add this in without being preachy.

As they plan for their wedding, we are treating to some meddling by their families, which is always a fun plot.

This story is a lot of fun, and is super romantic. Simply put, I love Bobby and Paolo!

This is a fun and heartwarming holiday story -- actually two stories. It is a follow-up to "Home for the Holidays," following Bobby and Paulo's relationship one year later and two years later as they form a real family. It can certainly stand on its own, but would be better reading "Home" first to get to know the main characters. I don't want to give away storylines, but it is full of clever laugh-out-loud humor while at the same time offering real characters and heartfelt emotions. Joe Cosentino has a unique style that can draw you into the story and characters and then hook you for good. It is the perfect book in front of a warm fire during the holiday season -- or for a fun and feel-good time anytime of year.

I first met Bobby and Paolo when they met and fell in love on the island of Capri. A love story that I so enjoyed but I always felt that something was missing? It ended a little bit too neatly for my tastes, too many questions left unanswered. So I was overjoyed to hear that their story wasn't over, it was just really beginning and a year down the line we get to see how they are doing?
And it's now full steam ahead for "Operation Bobby and Paolo's Wedding"! But with Bobby's mum planning the wedding to rival Harry and Meghan's and with the happy couple wanting a very quiet, low key affair....icebergs are being predicted on the horizon. Can they navigate around them and get what they want? or will the might of the iceberg be too much and they sink like The Titanic?
We are then very smoothly taken to a year later, when an unexpected Carpathia lifeline is cast in their direction? Will they reach out, grab it and hold on to what they can have, if they fight together for it? Read to find out......

This is one of those books that is perfect to read on a cold winter's evening, preferably in front of a roaring fire with your feet tucked up. It's written for romance readers looking for the Aahhhhhhhhhh feeling at the end. Joe Cosentino is still my King of Romance, maybe not in the traditional sense, as his snarky humour, subtle political jibes and lusty smexy times doesn't make him fit in that mould of a typical romance writer. He's the exception to the rule and I love that about him.