[Emily’s Review]: Cheap Heat (Goliath’s of Wrestling #3)

Rafe
I really, really don’t like my neighbour.

We’ve lived next door to each other for three years, and we couldn’t be more opposite. I’m a quiet, introverted ghoul with a small friend group and a love of true crime podcasts and tabletop role-playing games. Dan Ewen a party boy with an endless string of ‘guests’ who likes to blare country music all night. He’s loud, inconsiderate, messy, loud, a total dudebro… did I mention loud?

And when I start my new job as IT manager at Goliaths of Wrestling, an underground supernatural wrestling organisation, I quickly discover that my terrible dullahan neighbour is now my new colleague. Great.

I still don’t like him. It doesn’t change anything. I can avoid him at work. But when I spot him one night through his living room window doing something that is utterly shocking, obscene, really weird… I find myself thinking about my annoying neighbour. A lot.

All the time, actually.

Oh no.

Dan
That neighbour of mine is a cute, surly ghoul whose pretty green eyes and angry scowl just make me want to rile him up even more.

We’ve never really been buddies, despite living side by side for three years. But when he starts working at Goliaths as our IT manager, helping to bring us into a new digital age, our lives begin to become a bit more entangled.

Mainly because he starts watching me each night while I… relax. So I make sure to give him a good show through my living room window.

I’ve always assumed Rafe Hare is straight, but it quickly becomes clear that I might be wrong. And when I propose a fantastic new way for us to get… ahem… friendlier, he’s as all-in as I am.

Which means I get to show him just how weird it can get with a dullahan. And I can’t wait.

I received this book for free from Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I can not get enough of this series for real.

I love Lily Mayne’s work anyway, but this series is really special.
It’s a great mixture of fun banter, ridiculous antics and some seriously sexy times.
* And a few fun little easter eggs for her fans as well *

Every character brings something to the table, in every book. Main characters and otherwise.
The fact that there will be some new characters joining the series in the next few novels is so exciting to me. I can’t wait to see who Lily comes up with next!

The cameos from the books that came before each installment only add something and never take away from the current plot or MC’s.
It’s done so well, and it is always fun to see our old favorites being productive in the newest book in the series.

I can’t lie, while reading the first two books in Goliath’s Of Wrestling, I was never really interested in Dan. He just seemed kind of one dimensional and I never gave him a second thought. This book definitely changed my mind. Dan snuck up on me and I wasn’t mad about it. Everybody loves a good ol’ southern boy who falls first.

I loved how low angst this novel was!
Larkin and Seb were wonderful in book two, but there was enough pining in that novel to last a lifetime.
In Cheap Heat, no one really ran from their feelings, the characters communicated well, and were patient with one another. Dan and Rafe truly just accepted each other’s good and bad sides right from the get go.
Plus a little neighborly feud to up the ante.

Rafe was so easy to identify with. I think we all have been Rafe at one point in our lives. I know I sometimes still have many of the same emotions and self doubt that he struggled with. I think Dan really brought out the best in him.

Dan was wonderful through out the entire book. Just a sweetheart who wore short shorts. Dan was so patient with Rafe, and while he might have been taking a short trip down De-nile. He very quickly changed his tune and it was always a very open relationship.

The dark horse favorites for me were Frank and Beans. They may be the most chaotic characters I have ever had the pleasure of reading and while I DEFINITELY don’t need an entire novel about them. A short would be well well WELL received (by me at least). Those two are literally, UN. HINGED. I sincerely hope they show up periodically in the rest of this series.

I can’t wait to read the next book.
I love Vince always and I think Crossbody has some big secrets in all that long luxurious hair of his. I’m also hoping for a Fae-Fated Mates scenario- but I won’t get ahead of my self.

As always, it’s a joy to read Lily Mayne’s novels, I am lucky enough to be on her ARC team. I might cry if I ever have to leave it.

Emily

Emily is a coffee loving, cat snuggling, hairstylist and book-a-holic.
Having always been a voracious reader and devouring books at a breakneck speed, joining the bookish and blogging community seemed like a natural next step. She loves giving recommendations to friends and family and then very gently (and not forcefully at all) asking for their opinions after they complete each chapter.
Her reviews tend to be goofy, a little sweary, on the more impassioned side and maybe sometimes a little self deprecating.
Emily typically enjoys reading almost every genre, including (but not limited to) monster romance, literary fiction, rom-com, contemporary, LGBTQ+, low/urban fantasy, paranormal, dystopian, sci-fi, gothic romance or basically any book that will make her cry.