Book Review of Cupid
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Blurb
:
As a
postman by day, and one of Santa’s reindeer on a single very special night,
Cassius Cupid eats, sleeps, and breathes deliveries. He doesn’t mind, but
sometimes wishes that someone would send him something more exciting than bills
and junk mail.
One cold
January morning, Cassius gets his wish. A young woman arrives with a parcel.
Turns out it’s for his housemate – but Cassius doesn’t care. All he’s interested
in is Carina – the beautiful female courier.
Has
Cupid finally met his match?
About the
Author:
As a postman by day,
and one of Santa’s reindeer on a single very special night, Cassius Cupid eats,
sleeps, and breathes deliveries. He doesn’t mind, but sometimes wishes that
someone would send him something more exciting than bills and junk mail.
One cold January
morning, Cassius gets his wish. A young woman arrives with a parcel. Turns out
it’s for his housemate – but Cassius doesn’t care. All he’s interested in is
Carina – the beautiful female courier.
Has Cupid finally met
his match?
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Excerpt:
Chapter One
Cassius
Cupid woke with a start, and then sat bolt upright in his bed. Shit, I’m going
to be late! was his first thought.
Milliseconds
later his brain switched on, and he remembered. He was on holiday. Flopping
back onto the warm mattress and pillows with a contented sigh, he smiled. No
work for fourteen whole days—it was going to be utter bliss. He stretched,
relishing the feeling it created in his sleep-softened muscles. Ahhh…this is
the life.
He knew
he wouldn’t go back to sleep—hell, it was eight o’clock, which was practically
the middle of the day for someone in his profession—so Cassius fell to thinking
about how he was going to spend his day, not to mention the several others in
front of him. God knew he deserved to relax and have some fun. He’d just
emerged from the busiest part of his year, and he was more than ready to do
some chilling out.
He
enjoyed his job as a postman—he really did—but the Christmas period was a total
killer. He idly wondered how many cards and presents he’d delivered over the
past few weeks. It didn’t bear thinking about. Once you factored in the festive
period itself, the weird few days between Christmas and New Year, and then the
flurry of mail that got sent when everyone went back to work properly at the
beginning of January, he’d racked up some serious deliveries. And that was
before you even thought about his other job—which was for just one day a year,
but was arguably more important than the other 364 put together.
Cassius—or
Cupid, as he was known to his boss and colleagues in his second, but most
important job—was not only a regular postman for the Royal Mail, but also a
reindeer. For a single day of the year, Cassius had the supernatural power to
transform into one of Santa’s faithful steeds and help pull that famous magical
sleigh, delivering presents to excited children the world over.
Therefore,
it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Cassius really did eat, sleep and
breathe deliveries, but not for the next fourteen days. All he planned to do
was watch some TV, read some books, maybe go out hiking, meet some friends…
basically anything that wasn’t delivering something to someone. Hey, he might
even receive something through the post himself—preferably not the usual crap;
bills and junk mail. He didn’t hold out much hope.
He
lounged in bed for another ten minutes before realising he was lying there just
for the sake of it. Being on holiday didn’t have to equal staying in bed all
day—and certainly not for someone as active as him. He reached over to his
bedside table, grabbed his glasses and put them on. Throwing off his thick
duvet, he walked to his bedroom window and peeked out through the curtains,
immediately glad of the effective central heating he and his housemate had
forked out to have installed the previous year.
The
outside world was covered in a thick layer of snow, and Cassius was mightily
glad that he wasn’t out delivering letters and parcels. The stuff was
treacherous enough without having to carry a heavy bag up and down driveways,
paths, and pavements — most of which either hadn’t been cleared, or had been
cleared badly, leaving incredibly slippery patches of ground for an
unsuspecting postie to come across. God knows he’d gone down enough times, but,
much to his relief, nobody had ever seen him do it. He’d always been relatively
unharmed—excerpt for his pride, of course—and had been able to scramble back to
his feet and carry on.
The
eerie silence outside was broken by the rumble of an engine, and Cassius turned
his head to look up the street—he lived in a cul-de-sac, so he knew that’s
where the vehicle would come from—and watched as a delivery van made its way
slowly and carefully down the road. He hoped the driver was sensible enough to
try and steer over the thickest parts of the snow—the more people went over and
over the same patches, packing it down, the more the road surface resembled an
ice rink. And since the cul-de-sac was on a slight hill, it was easy enough to
get stuck. He’d seen it so many times—even going outside one time last winter
to suggest the driver go down to the bottom of the road, turn around and try
reversing up the hill—an almost foolproof plan for vans with rear-wheel drive.
He’d gotten a big thumbs-up for that suggestion as the driver finally got to
the junction where the road became flat, and went on his merry way.
As the
van drew closer to his house, he saw that the driver was a woman. That would
explain her cautious driving—he’d never admit it to one of his drinking
buddies, but women were far superior when it came to driving in adverse weather
conditions. He even thought he’d seen some survey containing statistics that
proved it.
Review
Well I
had to open the windows and let out the steam that was generated by reading
this “only for 18 and older” book.
Yu-uh-uh-mmy! Cassius (better known
by his one night a year job, Cupid, as one of Santa’s reindeer) is a well-built,
handsome mailman with not much going on in his life. He’s sworn off women because he can never be
around on Christmas and that’s generally a relationship killer. However when delivery woman, Carina, slips
and falls on his driveway, he may not have a choice in this matter of the
heart.
Cassius
find himself falling for Carina, and you will fall for both of them is this
steamy little read. A perfect winter
read, because it’s on the steamy side, and will definitely put you in the mood
for a little snuggling under the covers.
I give
this book a 5 out of 5 clouds for the novel idea and charming story line; and a
7.5 on the chili pepper rating scale. Definitely
a hot read.
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