Book club #4 Team Phison

The blurb
For 55-year-old Phil Hutton, finding a new boyfriend is tough, especially since he’s still hurting from his ex leaving him for a younger man. Online dating has been a soul-crushing experience for the restaurant owner. Too many meat-haters interested in microbreweries or something called geocaching. His matches in the multiplayer for his favorite video game have been equally sucky too.

One night, he encounters a newbie who is so helpless, Phil can’t help showing him the ropes. It doesn’t take long for Phil to become interested in his enthusiastic teammate. 28-year-old Tyson Falls from Georgia loves working as a server in a rinky pizza joint and sees the best in everything. As Phil’s online dating matches get worse and his in-game matches with Tyson get better, he finds himself wanting to pursue the easygoing chatterbox with a thick, sexy drawl.

But Phil can’t get past the fear that Tyson couldn't possibly want a fossil like him. If his brain doesn’t stop being so damn insecure, it might be game over for his heart

Initial thoughts
I love friends to lovers stories, and I also like age differences as well. I enjoy the tension that comes with them, and exploring that internally and externally. 
What I enjoyed about Team Phison was how Phil and Tyson get to know each other, totally friendly at first then more flirtatiously it was written so sweetly that my cheeks ached with smiling . 
That neither of them were six packed and buffed- physically they read like people you'd know not some paragon of male beauty, that Tyson immediately found Phil attractive was cute - another cheek aching moment.
As this is told from Phil's POV he did come off as more rounded, and his immediate circle of friends and his employees at the restaurant, I wanted to know more, which is always a good sign in a book. 
I really enjoyed the contrast between Phil's dates and how his relationship with Tyson was developing, and there was a real sense that the author really cared about their characters, which is total catnip for me, it's like exploring a book with a good friend when this happens!

So really I was enjoying this for most of the book, and I felt that as a snap shot of how a relationship starts it was pretty good, I found Phil's insecurity a little wearing at times, while I understood it, it was really the only tension in the book. Any issue with a large age difference was dismissed or not even acknowledged. And while I recognise that this was feel good all the way personally I needed a bit of tension, and certainly an acknowledgement that the age difference would have caused friction at some stage.
Tyson seemed too goo to be true, and at times almost one dimensional, and I felt that the epilogue was tacked on, but that's something I get with romances a lot these days.
Overall I enjoyed the writing, the slow build up but missed tension and felt that the time from when they actually met to HEA was way too short and unexplored.

I also had a visual of Paul Hollywood stuck in my mind - thanks Jo!