Renovating Charlie: Tia Fielding & Kris T. Bethke

The Black Dog Inn book 1

Talk about a story that blew me away! I chose it on a whim... and I'm so glad I did!

REBUILDING CHARLIE is an amazing story. It's a love story, a found family story, and a survivor's story with amazing mental health representation. I ate this one up, y'all!

Charlie moves across the country where his college best friend and her wife are renovating and operating a motel - The Black Dog Inn. Charlie seems to be doing a little bit of everything there while trying to live in his newly nontoxic environment.

Teague is a gentle giant of a man. But he has a bad meet-disaster with Charlie *who he is immediately taken with.*

While Charlie and Teague maneuver around misunderstandings and boundries all while getting to know each other, and eat a monstrous amount of cupcakes - we get to know all these great side characters, and the doggos, and assorted relatives & neighbors. We also learn a little bit about Charlie's body dysmorphia, and even though it isn't strictly mentioned, the man also has PTSD.

Learning about Charlie's brain and boundaries was wonderful and terrible because his brain and his body are not fun places to be. But Charlie is a WONDERFUL main character, and all I wanted was for him to find some happiness.

Teague wasn't a perfect man, but he was perfect for Charlie. His patience and kindness, and sense of humor were exactly what Charlie needed. I liked how even in his thoughts, Teague wasn't expecting their LOVE to heal Charlie's mental health issues. He just loved and respected Charlie. The tenderness and affection he doted on Charlie with was Chef's kiss!

Honestly, what a dreamboat.


This book was great. I absolutely loved it. It's available now, and so is book two.


REBUILDING CHARLIE was an absolute banger of a book. If you're looking for smut, this isn't really gonna meet that mark. But the storytelling is great, and the characters will drag me back to this series because I wanna see how they all are doing. Absolutely recommend!

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