{"id":34858,"date":"2025-07-27T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34858"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:25:21","slug":"review-uglycry-daybreak-by-kate-hawthorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34858","title":{"rendered":"#review #uglycry Daybreak by: Kate Hawthorne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When a sunny young musician gets stranded with a grumpy mechanic during a snowstorm, a lack of heat is the least of their problems\u2026<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Liam Luckett is on an adventure. He’s dropped out of his Master’s program without telling his overbearing parents and set off on a road trip across the country. Armed with little more than his guitar, he\u2019s looking for his best life. He never expected his car to break down in the middle of nowhere Vermont with a huge storm pending, leaving him stranded and at the mercy of a hunky local mechanic.<\/p>\n

Jasper Cunningham is in a holding pattern. Three years after the death of his husband, he still hasn\u2019t moved on. A hot, younger stranded tourist is exactly the sort of complication this mechanic has been avoiding. But he also can\u2019t leave him in the snow. He brings Liam home and lets him sleep on the couch. The air is heavy with more than snow, and when the power goes out, the two men become closer than either of them expects.<\/p>\n

Every silken note Liam sings on that guitar thaws Jasper\u2019s heart a little. Suddenly, Liam\u2019s itchy feet aren\u2019t so eager to move on. When their feelings get too big to ignore, the bond they\u2019ve formed is tested. Will daybreak leave them going their separate ways?<\/p>\n

This opposites attract, hurt\/comfort romance features a grumpy widower who is only soft for one specific blue-eyed musician, a remote farmhouse, a friendly dog, and enough snow to knock the power out until love catches fire.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Review by Twinsie Tenise<\/p>\n

Liam is on a soul searching road trip. Hes trying to clear his head and figure out what he is going to do with his life. He is somewhere in Vermont when he has car trouble so he pulls over and goes in search of help in the little town.
\nJasper is sad. He has been sad for years since his husband passed. He doesn’t quite know how to move on but hes decided to try. It just so happens, on the very day he decides this, a stranger will breakdown nearby. Jasper gets a call from a friend about an out of towner broke down. He is the towns mechanic and ends up agreeing to fix the vehicle for Liam. Enter the snow storm as well as some other events and this job that should have been complete by the next day, turns into a bit longer. Liam is stuck with no car and nowhere to stay so Jasper begrudgingly agrees to let him crash at his place for the night…<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why I thought this would be an easy read\/listen. It started out inconspicuous but then outta nowhere it shattered my freaking heart. Thanks a whole lot for that, Kate! (I’m sure if she read this she would just cackle because she lives for readers tears!) In all seriousness though, I loved this book. Even the parts that made me ugly cry. Both men were perfect for one another and their story was beautiful. It has been 24 hours and I’m still trying to move on. I’m sure I will eventually but I feel like it is one of those books that I will carry with me in my heart.<\/p>\n

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Kate Hawthorne is an author of character-driven LGBT romance, known for crafting emotionally intense stories with high heat and a kinky twist. Creating worlds where passion and angst collide, Kate\u2019s books bring you complex protagonists in fearless pursuit of happy\u2014if not sometimes unconventional\u2014endings.<\/p>\n

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  When a sunny young musician gets stranded with a grumpy mechanic during a snowstorm, a lack of heat is the least of their problems\u2026 Liam Luckett is on an adventure. He’s dropped out of his Master’s program without telling his overbearing parents and set off on a road trip across the country. Armed with … Continue reading #review #uglycry Daybreak by: Kate Hawthorne<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-94e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34860,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34858\/revisions\/34860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}