Best Supporting Actor (Creative Types Book 3)
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Lights, camera…attraction!
When Tag O’Rourke, struggling actor-slash-barista, meets Jay Warren, son of acting royalty, it’s loathing at first sight. Loathing…and lust.
Tag’s dream is to act, but it’s a dream that’s crumbling beneath the weight of student debt and his family’s financial problems. If his career doesn’t take off soon, he’s going to have to get a real job. After all, feeding his family is more important than feeding his soul.
Luckily, Tag’s about to get his big break…
Jay never had to dream about acting; he was always destined to follow in his famous mother’s footsteps. But fame has its price and a traumatic experience early in Jay’s career has left him with paralysing stage fright, which is why he sticks to the safety of TV work—and avoids relationships with co-stars at all costs.
Unfortunately, Jay’s safe world is about to be rocked…
After an ill-judged yet mind-blowing night together, Jay and Tag part acrimoniously. So it’s a nasty shock when they discover that they’ve been cast in a two-man play that could launch Tag’s career and finally get Jay back onto the stage where he belongs.
Sure, it’s not ideal, but how bad can working with your arch-nemesis be?
All they have to do is survive six weeks rehearsing together and navigate a cast of smarmy festival directors, terrible landladies, and vengeful journalists. Oh, and try not to fall in love before the curtain rises…
Break a leg!
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Additional information
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| File size | 1520 KB |
| Simultaneous device usage | Unlimited |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 421 pages |
by Hayley Smith
A beautifully written story, Tag and Jay’s story is a wonderful book to finish off this fantastic series.
by Dee176
This is the first book I’ve read by either of these authors and I really enjoyed it, the story kept my interest from beginning to end and I loved Tag and Jay their chemistry was great, I liked that the more they learned about each other the more they supported each other, there was some great side characters as well and while I don’t think it’s necessary to read books one and two to enjoy this story I’d like to learn there characters stories after meeting them here, so I will be giving them a read soon. This book is well worth a read.
by Cadiva
What a way to bring down the curtain on what’s been a fabulous series.
I think this might have just shaved enough extra off the other two to take the top spot as my favourite pairing.
Tag and Jay fratch and snap, winding each other up every time their paths cross, mostly down to the insane UST that oozes off them both, but also down to them getting the wrong impression of their character.
Sparks flew the first time they met, and we get a bit of overlapping with the timelines of the first two books too here, starting on the night of the RPP dinner, when they get into a row over dating model Mason (star of book two).
They end up in bed, but Jay’s insecurities from a previously abusive ex, and Tag’s chip about his working class background versus the nepotism of the acting world, sees them exchanging hurtful words and parting in anger.
So it takes some skills to then give us the rest of this gorgeous story, and Joanna and Sally have that in spades.
When their paths cross again, it’s as the leads in a new play based on the relationship between the two great WW I War Poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, an eight week rehearsal then a two week run in the beautiful surroundings of York.
What I loved the best about this narrative is how, as they collaborate and work through the intensity of the rehearsals for their two-header production, navigating how to compromise with the director and writer, as well as take into account the tensions of Jay’s involvement being kept secret, you get to see them realise they’re mistaken about each other.
The attraction is there, but it’s the slow friendship that grows easily, as each does things for the other out of kindness, without expectations of a return, that proves the driving plotline along.
The reader knows there are secrets being kept, but each man is, in turn, blind to that knowledge, so you have a nice edge of tension keeping you on your toes as things progress.
Emotional and engaging, their relationship draws you into the heart of the narrative, taking hold and making you feel everything they’re going through.
There’s a really fabulous set of secondary characters too, a bad guy to rail against, a sense of doom approaching that you know cannot be escaped.
But then there’s a wonderful recovery, a swelling of support, and a few home truths, all leading to a glorious finale in which order is restored and our heroes united.
All three of the books in this series has had a widely different narrative, but each has taken a look at how those working within the creative industries can find themselves lost at sea, unanchored and adrift, until the moment someone special guides them back to safe waters.
I’ve loved each in turn for a multitude of reasons, but as a lover of the great WW I War Poets since studying them in O Level English Literature, this one definitely spoke to my heart.
It’s a wonderful story, told without unnecessary drama, there’s an element of misinterpretation but it doesn’t really stray over into miscommunication or plot for plot’s sake and the Encore aka Epilogue, rounds out a really lovely romance and closes an excellent series.
by choccygrl
This is book 3 of the series and I’ve read what went before so I can’t really say whether it can be read as a standalone. Events overlap both of the other books and as both characters have a role in those books too (especially book 2, Mason’s story), it would possibly help to read them.
I really liked Tag in the other books and I was expecting him to be my favourite here. But Tag has a massive working class chip on his shoulder that makes him lash out in a nasty and bitter way. I genuinely disliked him for much of the first half of the book.
Jay might be acting royalty but he is a sensitive soul. He hides it behind a veneer of charm, an aloofness when feeling uncertain, and a biting retaliation when feeliing attacked or vulnerable. So much so that he captured my heart. I was on Team Jay all the way.
There’s plenty of UST, acknowledged but unwanted for much of the book because they got off on the wrong foot and Tag’s blinkered attitude stopped them getting back on an even keel for a long while.
The play within the book gave readers a gorgeous secondary couple of sorts and many of these parts were especially moving.
This is the last book in the series and it’s lovely to see HEAs for all the couples.
by Lynne a.
A wonderful story to bind the trilogy together with references to all 6 key characters of the series. Beautifully delving into the thoughts and inner fears of young men and how life has treated them.
Here’s hoping for more collaborations of Sally and Joanna.