Synopsis From Publisher:
Jamie is an accountant who lives by a strict schedule: every day is planned; the future is predictable. And that schedule includes one night a week when he allows himself to blow off steam at a gay dance club in the City. One Friday night he gets more than he bargained for when he meets Matt, an out of work stranger with long dark hair and rough hands. The attraction is undeniable but Matt does not fit Jamie's idea of the perfect man to share his carefully ordered life.
Instead, Jamie longs for a date with his dream man: handsome, sophisticated Keith, a successful Vice President at his prestigious New York accounting firm, a man on his way up.
But everything changes when Jamie discovers a suspicious error in one of is accounts. Suddenly, he finds himself on the run from both the mob and the FBI -- and the only man who can help him in the tall, dark-haired stranger he rejected. Because Matt is not who he seems -- and neither is Keith.
Even in the world of m/m romance books, Friday Night Jamie is not high literature. It won't make my best of the year list, even if I did one for romance books only, nor is it all that original. What it is, is a whole lot of fun. This is the kind of story Lifetime makes into movies, and who doesn't binge watch those every once in a while. Why hasn't anyone started a gay version of the Lifetime channel, I can promise it would be a huge hit.
Lifetime movies have, for the most part, have two essential truths; first impressions can't be trusted and looks can be deceiving. In most cases, if a man appears to be too good to be true, he is. The man that is perfect on paper, is the man to run away from. The man who doesn't check off every little box on your "must haves" list, he's the one you want to keep.
As in the perfect TV movie, the perfect guy will always show his true colors, normally in a deadly way. Keith is not exception to that rule, though why Jamie found him to be all that desirable is beyond me. Either the poor boy had blinders on, or he's a dumb as a bunch of rocks. Since he doesn't come across as dumb in an other aspect of his life, I'm going to have to go with blind. Matt on the other hand is golden form the moment he walks on the page, and for any man to have the patience he does, is a miracle all on its own. Once Jamie gets his head out of his ass, Jamie and Matt are great together. They are so very different from each other, but I've always thought that opposites make great pairings. They both brings such different things to the table, that together, they compliment and smooth out each other's rough patches.
What follows is the normal cheesy movie of the week fare. Jamie stumbles upon some bad stuff, the FBI gets involved, people get killed, the heroes go on the run from the bad guys, more people get killed, and the two heroes live happily ever after. The mystery aspect is pretty light, as far as the heroes having to solve anything, but what's there was enough to hold my interest. Like I said, nothing that isn't predictable or new, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to read.
Challenges: A-Z Mystery, Password (Friday)
Sometimes fun is all I'm looking for in a book. Glad you enjoyed it.
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