Not your typical hero vs. villain when there is banter, found family, a no killing rule everyone tries to observe, and a fake dating scheme that digs the two main characters in deeper than they expected.
From the Time on Our Side blurb:
Jay Diamant is a bad guy—on the clock, at least, where his job description occasionally includes masquerading as the time-stopping villain Metronome and wreaking general havoc. When he’s not on company time, though, he mainly enjoys living the best life that (nefariously gained) money can buy and making sure that his teenage nephew, Zach, has the childhood that Jay never had.
Harris Ferguson is a hero—not that it’s helped him much. Living out of his car while he struggles through college, Harris spends most of his free time in the Climber suit, using its physics-defying powers to help clean up the streets. When he takes aspiring newbie hero Zach Diamant under his wing, he thinks that the two of them might be able to make a real difference in the city.
All of this, of course, is before Harris finds out that Zach’s uncle is infamous villain Metronome. It’s also before Jay finds out that his beloved nephew is trying to play the hero game under the guidance of thorn-in-Jay’s-side hero Climber. When their worlds collide in the worst way and their only solution is to fake a relationship, will they be able to find something worth fighting for underneath each other’s masks?
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Time on Our Side is a contemporary LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy that features a modern world mixed with superhero suits and superpowers, a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, reluctant fake dating, heroes and villains who are more alike than they want to admit, found family vibes, tragic backstories, mild to moderate steaminess, major angst, and a happy ending for our protagonists (with a few plot threads left open for later books).
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SNik's review:
First in series (Base City Romance). Sci-fi/fantasy. Enemies to lovers. Fake relationship. Found family. Very slow burn/no burn. Dual POV.
Juggling his hero duties as Climber while trying to mentor a young new hero and not having a home or enough food to eat is just about every day recently for Harris. Constantly running into his nemesis and losing every time is getting tiresome too, until he stumbles upon Metronome’s secret identity and is forced to be fake boyfriends.
Both Harris and Jay have their reasons for fighting, and they both have experienced painful loss in their pasts as well. Slowly, Jay’s protective tendencies soon include Harris and they find themselves falling for each other, but a real relationship seems impossible. Harris and Jay were both likable characters, committed to Jay’s nephew’s safety, and despite opposing supersuits really connect with each other. This was a very entertaining read, the ending and romance were wrapped up quickly at the end of the story, but there is a slight cloud that hovers over their HEA (which may get resolved in the series but not in this book).
Time on Our Side is currently available as an e-book, paperback and hardback
Time on Our Side is currently available as an e-book, paperback and hardback
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