Finders Keepers

Written by N. R. Walker

Narrated by Joel Leslie

Needing a change of scene, Griffin Burke moves from Brisbane to Coolum Beach to start a new job. The beautiful white sand, aqua-colored ocean, blue skies, and summer breezes are everything he longs for. What he finds is a mud-covered dog, lost and hungry, with a name tag and a phone number.

Dane Hughes is stuck in Surfers Paradise at a week-long work conference when he gets a phone call from his distraught mother. His dog, his fur baby, Wicket, has run away. Unable to leave and feeling helpless and miserable, he gets a text from a guy. "I think I found your dog . . ."

Griffin and Dane start talking, and Griffin agrees to look after Wicket until Dane can collect him. With a few days left before his new job starts, Griffin takes Wicket on some coastal adventures and sends Dane photos of their fun, and so the start of something new and kind of wonderful begins.

Griffin might have moved to Coolum in search of a new life, but what he finds is so much more. What he gets to keep just might take some four-legged help.

Contains mature themes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jul 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781494535636

N. R. Walker

N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance. She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn't have it any other way.She is many things; a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who live in her head, who don't let her sleep at night unless she gives them life with words.She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things...but likes it even more when they fall in love.She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.She's been writing ever since...

Reviews for Finders Keepers

[Barb · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A sweet, low angst, slow burn story. Great narration. HEA

[khris · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Boring, slow and sounds like a dreary pity party. Total rubbish

[Jenny · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great heartwarming romance with some laughs. If you like dogs and cute couples- it’s a must read!

[aug3zimm-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Cute first bit, sweet ending, draggy sex-filled middle bit. Walker books are the equivalent of Hallmark movies - cute with low/no angst. But there is a line between low-angst-sweet and no-point-boring (for both Hallmark movies and fluff books). This one walks the line, seems to dip over it in the middle, but comes back to enjoyable fluff at the end.

[Kristen Beard · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book! I listen to it at least every month. Such a heartwarming, light, fun read!

[carol420 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What's not to love about a story that is just so cute and lovely and sweet that you find yourself smiling goofily the whole way through? It makes you wish that you owned, or were owned, by a little furry "Wicket". I love N.R. Walker's writing, everything she's ever written. Her books can be both funny and deeply emotional. This one is just chock full of love that will leave you feeling all mushy and teary eye at the end. Dane and Griffin might have a quick start to their relationship, but it is very well paced, there is all kinds of chemistry and friendship. No drama whatsoever in this story, and truly it's the first m/m romance that i have read in a long time without any misunderstandings, conflicts or hurt feelings. and of course, there is Wicket. Nothing bad happens. There are no villains, no betrayal or deceit. Just two men who find each other and fall in love...more accurately, a dog who finds them and brings them together.

[nannyogg13 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

N.R.'s books are a hit-or-miss for me and this one was a miss, sadly. And I really wanted to love this book.

When I decided to pick this book up, I needed some fluff and I loved the blurb. It was off to a good start - I loved the setting and all the potential it had. Griffin is outgoing and forward, Dane a bit shy. I loved the idea of the two of them chatting, getting to know each other, falling in love. And that's where the book fell short, for me.

They chatted, but it was all so superficial and mundane. I kept waiting for something to click, for an emotional spark to fly, but I waited in vain. When they met, the physical attraction was instant but to my regret we were never shown anything other than the physical (but we were told plenty). They texted, they met, they had a date and from that point it's all gazing into each-others eyes and telling us how amazing they thought the other was, but I couldn't feel any of it.

Because I wasn't given any time (or reason) to fall in love with (or even enjoy) their relationship the sex scenes felt forced, a bit boring, and purely mechanical. There were endless scenes where they were doing mundane things, or having next-door-neighbor level dialogue, where a scene of deepening of their relationship could have fit quite nicely.

When I was at around 2 chapters before the end I was tempted to DNF, but decided to see it to the end in hopes I will get some emotional growth from them. Instead we got sucked in a side character's story that was used to push the characters into the I-love-yous.

In all I loved the potential this story had and if I were to rate the first 30~ish% I'd give it 4 stars easily. But as a whole I was disappointed, so - 2 stars.