Rating: 3.5 stars
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Length: Novel
Eddie Brownlee has had a longtime crush on his father’s best friend. He’s tried to shake it, but whenever he sees Lee, Eddie is lost to him all over again. Eddie is trying to get his acting career going and has a great opportunity to star in a movie in America. Eddie’s father is a prominent prosecutor in England and now that he is prosecuting criminals with Mafia ties, they have threatened Eddie. His father steps in and insists that Lee, a former police and military man, accompany Eddie to America as his bodyguard.
Now that Eddie and Lee are traveling together in hotels with only one bed, their relationship gets complicated. Eddie never thought Lee had interest in men and never thought he would catch Lee’s eye, but that is exactly what is happening. However, Lee has a lot to sort out. He feels guilty for being attracted to his best friend’s son and he has relentless work-related PTSD. But Eddie helps to quiet his mind while firing up every other part of him. However, the threat that drove Lee to travel with Eddie is still there and Lee has bigger troubles than losing his heart, as he protects Eddie from losing his life.
American Dream is the eighth and most likely final book in the Flying into Love series. I have enjoyed the series overall and especially the various locations where the books have been set. This book takes the MCs from England to America and it was clear to me that a non-American author wrote this.
We get caught up quickly on the lives of Lee and Eddie, with Lee having recently lost his job due to a tragic incident and then getting divorced. Eddie has taken on a lot of responsibility since the death of his mother and he’s ready now to go after something for himself. When he learns of the threat against him, he thinks his father is demanding he stay in England, but when he finds out Lee will be joining him in America instead, Eddie is filled with so many emotions.
Many things in this story didn’t work for me, which made for a disappointing finale to the series. It seemed that Eddie only needed protection since he was going to America, which seemed to make a lot of assumptions about Americans. Lee and Eddie stayed in a few hotels together and, in getting their room settled, the vernacular of the American employees was off as it related to hotel terms.
The entire plotline of the threat against Eddie felt weak and amateurish and barely made for a cohesive story. The setting in this book was also not as strong as the others in the series, as Eddie and Lee’s locations read like plot points on a map without the sense of place the previous books had. The relationship between the men moves at the expected pace for a father’s best friend trope, but it was easy to see how the men would be good together.
This series can be read in any order and if the idea of men flying to different destinations to fall in love interests you, I would suggest starting with one of the other books in the series.
