The Guy Next Door by V.C. Lancaster [Review]

The Guy Next Door (Office Aliens #4) by V.C. Lancaster
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited

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Date read: November 30, 2019

Office Aliens
1. The E.T. Guy
2. The New Guy
3. The Security Guy
4. The Guy Next Door - Kindle
4.1. An Office Alien Christmas: Ro
4.2. An Office Alien Christmas: Bia
4.3. An Office Alien Christmas: Zir
4.4. An Office Alien Christmas: Khy

V.C. Lancaster
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Kez is a Teissian refugee living in San Diego in the year 2267, working at the Department of Extra-Terrestrial Immigration, and he doesn't like much. He doesn't like Earth, he doesn't like humans, he doesn't like his job, and he definitely doesn't like his bubbly next-door neighbor, Bia, who is convinced they are meant to be together. She's too young for him, their personalities are completely incompatible, and back on Teiss, her people kept his as slaves. No matter what Bia says, it's obvious to him they couldn't be more wrong for each other.

Because Kez is keeping secrets. On Earth, he's been able to redefine himself, and escape the difficult life he was forced to lead on Teiss. He is hiding the fact that he is mixed-race, and that he hasn't been able to shake a nasty habit of taking other people's things no matter how hard he tries. And letting Bia into his life would risk exposing all of that.

But despite how she was born, Bia was raised by Kez's own people. She isn't like the others, and as he gets to know her, he uncovers a lonely and lost female just trying to find a place to belong, a place he can give her, if he dares. When Bia needs his help, he can't say no. He just has to make sure that their first time is also their last, because he won't risk everything on the chance of a mate, and he won't let her throw her future away on a male like him.

Thoughts on The Guy Next Door: Kez is a man of hidden facets. Or maybe I should say he's an alien of hidden facets. Either way, he's more than just the grumpy friend of Ro, supplier of mood enhancing chemicals, and procurer of small things. He's an alien trying to survive the only way he knows how on a strange new world and he's...well, he's sort of making a mess of things. But, like, a small mess. Nothing that can't be undone or fixed, just something that needs to be addressed.

He is sort of grumpy, though. Again, that's mostly because he's used to being standoffish due to his past and he's not sure what to make of the perky female next door who keeps sweetly inserting herself into his life.

Yeah, Bia is Kez's opposite. She's upbeat and cheerful and she loves loud colors and, well, Kez. Considering even Kez doesn't love himself (or like himself half the time), Bia's actions throw him for a loop. Bia, for all her youth and exuberance, is pretty darn sly about getting what she wants. Which is Kez. She wants him and she sets about showing him exactly how much she does until the grumpy guy has to admit to himself that she might be right about them being a good match.

Heh. I love it when the grumpy grouches fall.

A little theft, a little deviousness, and a shared heat or two. GOOD TIMES!