The Disability Book Archive

[ID: Book cover for ‘Slim to None’ by Freya Barker. The author’s name is at the bottom of the cover in large grey capital letters. The title of the book is written in a column down the lower left centre of the page, in white lower case letters. The name of the series “Cedar Tree” is below this in smaller white writing. The cover art shows an older white man with dark black hair and a beard standing in front of a tree with his arms crossed over his chest. He is wearing a long sleeved, dark blue chequered shirt. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Sexually Explicit Content
• Kidnapping
• Hospitalisation
• Home Invasion
• Being Knocked Unconscious

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Summary:

Since moving to beautiful Cedar Tree, Colorado, Emma Young, mother of one adult daughter, has worked from home doing some online bookkeeping and baking for her best friend’s diner to supplement her disability pension. Life has been pretty good, that is until she received a strange phone call that starts an alarming chain of events.

Investigator Gus Flemming is hot on the trail of a bail skip with organized crime connections that bring him to Cedar Tree. Once there, the focus of his investigation lands squarely on the gently rounded shoulders of a vivacious red haired Emma, whose physical limitations have done nothing to dampen her zest for life.

When it becomes clear that Emma is at risk, Gus does’t hesitate to step in and protect her. Call it a job with some very hot benefits……

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Notes:

This is the first book in the Cedar Tree series.

Here is a link to the author’s website.

You can read a short excerpt of the book here.

This was Barkers debut novel.

There is an audibook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

“Due to content of a sexually explicit nature, this book is recommended for a mature audience only.” is the note attached to the book summary on Goodreads. People seem to like that part of that involves the main female MC learning how to feel sexy again.

Other people are somewhat divided on the amount of times she seems to get knocked out and hospitalised. One person even said it made the main male MC look at bit incompetent at his job in failing to protect her. There’s also a part where the two MCs engage in what is essentially phone sex prior to meeting, and people are on the fence about it. Some people liked it, some thought it was odd.

A lot of people appreciate that the main couple are both older- I believe they’re both in their 40s- and mixed ability, with praise directed on the male MC for recognising the disabled MCs desire to be independant.

(Although apparently (spoiler alert) there’s a moment where he buys her a purple walker that people really enjoy.)

Also, apparently there are no cheating or “other woman” dramas, which people appreciate. There appears to be a slight instance of mistaken identity in the beginning, though, but it’s resolved pretty quickly.

If I have to read the phrase “protective alpha” in a review one more time….! /j

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