Brief Encounters by Cassidy Ryan

Have a Little Faith by Cassidy Ryan

Kieran is an hopelessly romantic. He believes in Mr Right and he is willing to wait for him. Oh he has desires. In fact he lusts for Gavin, his boss' son, but the man has a reputation worst than Don Juan, and so Kieran doesn't want to be another notch in his belt.

But during the company Christmas party Gavin reveals a side of himself that makes him very similar to Kieran, and maybe there is hope for them. If Kieran is willing to be a little more open to gamble with his heart.

This is a really short story, 20 pages, but it warms the heart. The characters are well developed and the atmosphere is really tender. It's a perfect reading if you want good feelings and a prove that waiting Mr Right is the "right" thing to do. And I will be glady to read more about Kieran and Gavin... will Kieran brings Gavin to his family for Christmas brunch? :-) 

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=726

Suddenly, Finally by Cassidy Ryan

Casey is in love with his best friend Josh, but he has never had the courage to confess his love to the man.

Josh is a womanizer, and more time Casey spends near him, more his heart aches. So Casey decides to move on living on the beach, far from eyes maybe far from heart? But one day Josh rings to his doorbell and he is not alone: he has Noah with him, a son he has never known to have and that the mother chooses to leave with him. And the first person he thinks to ask help his Casey, his best friend... but only a friend.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1214

What the Heart Wants by Cassidy Ryan

Jamie is a 24 years old guy trying to live like he feels he has to do. Five years before he gave up to family pressure and left his lover Nick, to try to be the good son his family wanted. But now he is no more willing to pretend and has left the family's comfort to live alone and pursue his dreams as an artist. He also adopts a stray cat, Hellion, who is all up to his name.

When he brings Hellion to the vet, he discovers that his former lover Nick is the vet. And after a first cold moment of embarassment, Nick seems willing to restart from where they were five years ago. But Jamie did a terrible thing to Nick and he is not sure that Nick could ever forgive him.

This is a sip, less than 20 pages, but very sweet, even if, truth be told, the real main character of the book is Hellion, the cat. He has all the more interesting scenes, and he remembers me all my past experiences with cats and vets.

Jamie and Nick are very young, and they have all the time to get back all the waste time of the past five years. The story is short and not all the untold questions are straightened between Jamie and Nick, but they have some good basis to start over.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1255

Cry Wolf by Cassidy Ryan

In a medieval village, probably in England, Leandro is a young guy too clever for his own good. Orphaned after the death of his mother, a cultured woman who wanted for him a different life, he has never known his father, and to top all, he is too pretty to be considered a "real" man. In that village he will always be the boy with the head in the clouds.

The only bright light in his situation, is the friendship with Cale, the apothecary of the village, a man arrived two years before and since then his only friend. But also this friendship is creating trouble in Leandro's heart, since he has feeling for his friend that he shouldn't have.

One night while he is alone in the woods around the village, Leandro makes the most extraordinary of the encounters, a being half human, half beast, a werewolf. Obviously when he, scared, bursts into the village, villagers only think that this is one anther oddity of that lunatic boy. Leandro knows that it's time for him to leave the village, even if leaving means not having more the chance to be with Cale.

The story is really short, less than 20 pages, but it's light and sweet. Usually an historical romance has always a "weight" upon it, a feeling that, to be good, it needs to be big and important. This is not the feeling I had reading this short story; it mixes well the paranormal elements with the historical setting, it gives enough details to build the atmosphere, but they don't seem forced, like sometime happens when authors try to ennoble their romance with useless information.

The only lack I found is that it's too short, and so both Leandro than Cale are only hinted, we haven't a real development of them. It's a lack but it's also a compliment I have to do to the author, since I think that both characters are worthying of more, above all Cale.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1459

Stories include:

Fortune's Favor
The Handyman Can
What the Heart Wants
Cry Wolf
Best of Enemies
A Perfect Match
Have a Little Faith
Suddenly, Finally
The Gift of Love
A Family Secret

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2468 (print book)

Amazon: Brief Encounters

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

Brief Encounters by Cassidy Ryan

Have a Little Faith by Cassidy Ryan

Kieran is an hopelessly romantic. He believes in Mr Right and he is willing to wait for him. Oh he has desires. In fact he lusts for Gavin, his boss' son, but the man has a reputation worst than Don Juan, and so Kieran doesn't want to be another notch in his belt.

But during the company Christmas party Gavin reveals a side of himself that makes him very similar to Kieran, and maybe there is hope for them. If Kieran is willing to be a little more open to gamble with his heart.

This is a really short story, 20 pages, but it warms the heart. The characters are well developed and the atmosphere is really tender. It's a perfect reading if you want good feelings and a prove that waiting Mr Right is the "right" thing to do. And I will be glady to read more about Kieran and Gavin... will Kieran brings Gavin to his family for Christmas brunch? :-) 

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=726

Suddenly, Finally by Cassidy Ryan

Casey is in love with his best friend Josh, but he has never had the courage to confess his love to the man.

Josh is a womanizer, and more time Casey spends near him, more his heart aches. So Casey decides to move on living on the beach, far from eyes maybe far from heart? But one day Josh rings to his doorbell and he is not alone: he has Noah with him, a son he has never known to have and that the mother chooses to leave with him. And the first person he thinks to ask help his Casey, his best friend... but only a friend.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1214

What the Heart Wants by Cassidy Ryan

Jamie is a 24 years old guy trying to live like he feels he has to do. Five years before he gave up to family pressure and left his lover Nick, to try to be the good son his family wanted. But now he is no more willing to pretend and has left the family's comfort to live alone and pursue his dreams as an artist. He also adopts a stray cat, Hellion, who is all up to his name.

When he brings Hellion to the vet, he discovers that his former lover Nick is the vet. And after a first cold moment of embarassment, Nick seems willing to restart from where they were five years ago. But Jamie did a terrible thing to Nick and he is not sure that Nick could ever forgive him.

This is a sip, less than 20 pages, but very sweet, even if, truth be told, the real main character of the book is Hellion, the cat. He has all the more interesting scenes, and he remembers me all my past experiences with cats and vets.

Jamie and Nick are very young, and they have all the time to get back all the waste time of the past five years. The story is short and not all the untold questions are straightened between Jamie and Nick, but they have some good basis to start over.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1255

Cry Wolf by Cassidy Ryan

In a medieval village, probably in England, Leandro is a young guy too clever for his own good. Orphaned after the death of his mother, a cultured woman who wanted for him a different life, he has never known his father, and to top all, he is too pretty to be considered a "real" man. In that village he will always be the boy with the head in the clouds.

The only bright light in his situation, is the friendship with Cale, the apothecary of the village, a man arrived two years before and since then his only friend. But also this friendship is creating trouble in Leandro's heart, since he has feeling for his friend that he shouldn't have.

One night while he is alone in the woods around the village, Leandro makes the most extraordinary of the encounters, a being half human, half beast, a werewolf. Obviously when he, scared, bursts into the village, villagers only think that this is one anther oddity of that lunatic boy. Leandro knows that it's time for him to leave the village, even if leaving means not having more the chance to be with Cale.

The story is really short, less than 20 pages, but it's light and sweet. Usually an historical romance has always a "weight" upon it, a feeling that, to be good, it needs to be big and important. This is not the feeling I had reading this short story; it mixes well the paranormal elements with the historical setting, it gives enough details to build the atmosphere, but they don't seem forced, like sometime happens when authors try to ennoble their romance with useless information.

The only lack I found is that it's too short, and so both Leandro than Cale are only hinted, we haven't a real development of them. It's a lack but it's also a compliment I have to do to the author, since I think that both characters are worthying of more, above all Cale.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=115&products_id=1459

Stories include:

Fortune's Favor
The Handyman Can
What the Heart Wants
Cry Wolf
Best of Enemies
A Perfect Match
Have a Little Faith
Suddenly, Finally
The Gift of Love
A Family Secret

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2468 (print book)

Amazon: Brief Encounters

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

All You Need is Love (Meine Schwiegertochter ist ein Mann) (2009) directed by Edzard Onneken

Director: Edzard Onneken

Writers: Kerstin Österlin (screenplay) &
Jessica Schellack (screenplay)

Release Date: 3 November 2009 (Germany)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot: The divorced Katharina Remming lives in an Alpine village in Bavaria. One day she receives from her son Hans, who is a Berlin architecture student, the message that he wants to marry Nicki. Katharina has never seen Nicki and assuming that it is a female name, she falls from the clouds when Nicki turns out to be a man. So far, she has never dealt with homosexuality, and therefore she doesn't know how she should react. Without further ado, she sends Nicki and Hans out of the door.

Both of them go into the village inn and the next morning they are seen by a villager while kissing. Soon the whole village knows that Hans is gay, and all the prejudices of the villagers appear evident. Even Hans' father, Christian, initially doesn't accept the homosexuality of his son. Throughout the film he becomes closer to his ex-wife, Katharina, and sees that their son has found the love of his life and it doesn't matter to them that he is in love with a man.

@IMDb

 

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Cast (in credits order)
Andreas Helgi Schmid ... Hans Remminger
Manuel Witting ... Nickolas 'Nicki'
Saskia Vester ... Katharina Remminger
Jürgen Tonkel ... Christian Remminger
Jenny Elvers ... Vera Remminger (as Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen)
Franziska Traub ... Rosi
Johannes Herrschmann ... Alois
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heide Ackermann ... Pensionswirtin
Kerstin Dietrich ... Andrea
Wolfgang Fischer ... Moosleitner (as Wolfi Fischer)
( rest of the cast )

  
Hans & Nicki

All You Need is Love (Meine Schwiegertochter ist ein Mann) (2009) directed by Edzard Onneken

Director: Edzard Onneken

Writers: Kerstin Österlin (screenplay) &
Jessica Schellack (screenplay)

Release Date: 3 November 2009 (Germany)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot: The divorced Katharina Remming lives in an Alpine village in Bavaria. One day she receives from her son Hans, who is a Berlin architecture student, the message that he wants to marry Nicki. Katharina has never seen Nicki and assuming that it is a female name, she falls from the clouds when Nicki turns out to be a man. So far, she has never dealt with homosexuality, and therefore she doesn't know how she should react. Without further ado, she sends Nicki and Hans out of the door.

Both of them go into the village inn and the next morning they are seen by a villager while kissing. Soon the whole village knows that Hans is gay, and all the prejudices of the villagers appear evident. Even Hans' father, Christian, initially doesn't accept the homosexuality of his son. Throughout the film he becomes closer to his ex-wife, Katharina, and sees that their son has found the love of his life and it doesn't matter to them that he is in love with a man.

@IMDb

 

( more pics )

Cast (in credits order)
Andreas Helgi Schmid ... Hans Remminger
Manuel Witting ... Nickolas 'Nicki'
Saskia Vester ... Katharina Remminger
Jürgen Tonkel ... Christian Remminger
Jenny Elvers ... Vera Remminger (as Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen)
Franziska Traub ... Rosi
Johannes Herrschmann ... Alois
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heide Ackermann ... Pensionswirtin
Kerstin Dietrich ... Andrea
Wolfgang Fischer ... Moosleitner (as Wolfi Fischer)
( rest of the cast )

  
Hans & Nicki

Sammy Dane by Stormy Glenn

The most original thing of this novel is to take the stereotype characters and turn them over for a bit.

Police Officer James Everson is a man-hater, always changing men like he changes his underwear, not thinking twice to them after the “use”. Nevertheless he has a vague idea of Mr. Right, the man who in the end will conquer his heart and he is open to meet him. After all he has the example of his little brother Nicky who is happily in love with Troy, another police officer. There is probably a nice story behind it, how Nicky and Troy met and fell in love, I have the strong impression that this story exist but I didn’t find any track of it in Stormy Glenn’s backlist… Anyway James is not against the idea to fall in love himself; he has a good example around so he is predisposed.

Troy’s brother, Sammy, on the other hand, hasn’t had nice experiences in the past, actually he had very few and all of them were bad. Sammy is a geeky guy, a bookworm, who prefers to loose himself in his books while letting the world flows outside his front door. He also has no idea how the world could be dangerous, he is quite with the head on the clouds, something that can create big trouble in his life.

Being James and Sammy both gays, obviously Nicky and Troy would like to match them together but before they can realize their plan, James and Sammy meet in a bar. James has just finished to mentally listing all the external signs that he doesn’t like in a man, when Sammy enters the bar and he has exactly all of them. But something in Sammy, who presents himself as Dane, the penname he uses to write gay erotic romance, attracts James, something that goes beyond the physical attraction. Physical attraction that doesn’t lack, au contraire, when Sammy Dane is alone with James in a bedroom, suddenly he behaves like a tiger, ordering James around, playing a bit the Dominant, arriving also to top James in bed, something James hasn’t yet allowed. I think Sammy Dane feels confident in the confines of a bedroom since he can play all the scenes he writes in his books. And then, Sammy Dane naked is very well endowed, something that he can’t “wear” outside.

This side of Sammy Dane makes him unforgettable to James, and also the fact that the morning after Sammy Dane brushes him off like a less important one night stand. This is the behaviour that usually James has with his lovers, not the way round. I think Sammy Dane shows his insecurity in that way, he feared James’ rejection, and so he went away before it. But to James’ eyes it’s like a challenge, like an invite to pursue him. Outside the bedroom James is the hunter, but inside the bedroom he is the prey.

This is a nice novel, not much complicated and even the “dangerous” sub-plot is not so dangerous to distract the readers from the love story. There are also some aspects that I didn’t understand so much, or maybe the authors decided not to develop them: for example, how likely is that two gay brothers meet two other gay brothers? If this was a fantasy tale, I would have taken it like a fact, but this is a contemporary romance, and there is also an hint to a possible prejudice issue, like when James is in the hospital and Sammy Dane wants to visit him. Probably the author decided not to linger on this side of the story, to weight more on the romance side; after all this is a love story not a social essay, and I don’t think the author meant to give out a message if not the strength of true love.

https://www.nobleromance.com/ItemDisplay.aspx?i=73

Series:
1) Picture Me Perfect: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1058170.html
2) Sammy Dane

Reading List:

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Sammy Dane by Stormy Glenn

The most original thing of this novel is to take the stereotype characters and turn them over for a bit.

Police Officer James Everson is a man-hater, always changing men like he changes his underwear, not thinking twice to them after the “use”. Nevertheless he has a vague idea of Mr. Right, the man who in the end will conquer his heart and he is open to meet him. After all he has the example of his little brother Nicky who is happily in love with Troy, another police officer. There is probably a nice story behind it, how Nicky and Troy met and fell in love, I have the strong impression that this story exist but I didn’t find any track of it in Stormy Glenn’s backlist… Anyway James is not against the idea to fall in love himself; he has a good example around so he is predisposed.

Troy’s brother, Sammy, on the other hand, hasn’t had nice experiences in the past, actually he had very few and all of them were bad. Sammy is a geeky guy, a bookworm, who prefers to loose himself in his books while letting the world flows outside his front door. He also has no idea how the world could be dangerous, he is quite with the head on the clouds, something that can create big trouble in his life.

Being James and Sammy both gays, obviously Nicky and Troy would like to match them together but before they can realize their plan, James and Sammy meet in a bar. James has just finished to mentally listing all the external signs that he doesn’t like in a man, when Sammy enters the bar and he has exactly all of them. But something in Sammy, who presents himself as Dane, the penname he uses to write gay erotic romance, attracts James, something that goes beyond the physical attraction. Physical attraction that doesn’t lack, au contraire, when Sammy Dane is alone with James in a bedroom, suddenly he behaves like a tiger, ordering James around, playing a bit the Dominant, arriving also to top James in bed, something James hasn’t yet allowed. I think Sammy Dane feels confident in the confines of a bedroom since he can play all the scenes he writes in his books. And then, Sammy Dane naked is very well endowed, something that he can’t “wear” outside.

This side of Sammy Dane makes him unforgettable to James, and also the fact that the morning after Sammy Dane brushes him off like a less important one night stand. This is the behaviour that usually James has with his lovers, not the way round. I think Sammy Dane shows his insecurity in that way, he feared James’ rejection, and so he went away before it. But to James’ eyes it’s like a challenge, like an invite to pursue him. Outside the bedroom James is the hunter, but inside the bedroom he is the prey.

This is a nice novel, not much complicated and even the “dangerous” sub-plot is not so dangerous to distract the readers from the love story. There are also some aspects that I didn’t understand so much, or maybe the authors decided not to develop them: for example, how likely is that two gay brothers meet two other gay brothers? If this was a fantasy tale, I would have taken it like a fact, but this is a contemporary romance, and there is also an hint to a possible prejudice issue, like when James is in the hospital and Sammy Dane wants to visit him. Probably the author decided not to linger on this side of the story, to weight more on the romance side; after all this is a love story not a social essay, and I don’t think the author meant to give out a message if not the strength of true love.

https://www.nobleromance.com/ItemDisplay.aspx?i=73

Series:
1) Picture Me Perfect: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1058170.html
2) Sammy Dane

Reading List:

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A Magical Story by Shayne Carmichael

I have never read Harry Potter’s books, but I had the feeling that the author was playing a bit with that world, even if the fantasy world is more medieval than Victorian.

The novella starts with a six years old Hawk who is in the car of his wizard grandfather to learn the secret of the profession. The old man knows that he will be not able to see his nephew grow and so he entrusts the kid to Brael, his apprentice. It’s not said how old Brael is, but probably he is 15 or 20 years older than Hawk. Anyway the agreement with the old man is that Brael will take care of the kid only when he will be “of age”.

Shift in time, a now young adult Hawk meets again Brael, and it’s soon clear that Brael will not only teach Hawk the secret of magic, but also something else. Truth be told, in a scene, Brael explains that his “personal” interest in Hawk begun when Hawk was older, while he was looking for the boy from afar, waiting to stake his claim. It is only good that Hawk is infatuated of Brael, and he was also as a kid: for Hawk nothing is changed, Brael is still the fascinating wizard who told him stories when he was a kid, only that now he will tell him a different type of story. The author plays the innocent card for Hawk, with an hint or two, but not as much as he could have done.

If not for the sex, the story would be quite “innocent” and light: shadows who speak, wands and medallions who express their opinion and treat their owner. But the lightness and innocence is soon forgotten when Brael and Hawk are alone together.

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A Magical Story by Shayne Carmichael

I have never read Harry Potter’s books, but I had the feeling that the author was playing a bit with that world, even if the fantasy world is more medieval than Victorian.

The novella starts with a six years old Hawk who is in the car of his wizard grandfather to learn the secret of the profession. The old man knows that he will be not able to see his nephew grow and so he entrusts the kid to Brael, his apprentice. It’s not said how old Brael is, but probably he is 15 or 20 years older than Hawk. Anyway the agreement with the old man is that Brael will take care of the kid only when he will be “of age”.

Shift in time, a now young adult Hawk meets again Brael, and it’s soon clear that Brael will not only teach Hawk the secret of magic, but also something else. Truth be told, in a scene, Brael explains that his “personal” interest in Hawk begun when Hawk was older, while he was looking for the boy from afar, waiting to stake his claim. It is only good that Hawk is infatuated of Brael, and he was also as a kid: for Hawk nothing is changed, Brael is still the fascinating wizard who told him stories when he was a kid, only that now he will tell him a different type of story. The author plays the innocent card for Hawk, with an hint or two, but not as much as he could have done.

If not for the sex, the story would be quite “innocent” and light: shadows who speak, wands and medallions who express their opinion and treat their owner. But the lightness and innocence is soon forgotten when Brael and Hawk are alone together.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=A%20Magical%20Story

Amazon Kindle: A Magical Story

Reading List:

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Shell Shocked by Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks

For sure it’s not an easy book: Sparrow and Brooks decided to lay bare the reality of two men who barely make end’s meet every month; they are not exactly poor, but they are not far from it.

When they meet, Sean is a vet from Iraq who was severely injured: he has fake knees that allow him to walk, if the time is good, but also give him great pain; he has a retina problem he solves using special glasses when outside; he is not able to walk outside without risking a breakdown and each rumour reminds him of the front. With the social security helps, the drugs from the system and a side-job as erotic romance writer he is not good, but he can go on. After a few months of this life he is also able to think to a relationship and his target is Gabe, the cute boy in a wheelchair he meets at the clinic. Before he has never had the courage to talk to him but in a particular good day, he finds it. From that moment on Gabe becomes his anchor.

Gabe is a psychic card reader by phone and like Sean, he is able to maintain himself without saving nothing. He is extremely independent but when he meets Sean, probably he recognizes a soul mate. Yes, it’s true, it’s probably the disability that bonds them together, and it’s obviously more convenient for them to live together, it’s cheaper, but I don’t think that it’s only that. Sean needs someone to take care of, to make him feel confident, when to everyone else it’s obvious that he is the one to need a caretaker. Sean has a family, a family that probably would have helped him, but instead he is living alone; I think Sean ran way from that life since he is no more the same person; he is no more the next door good boy. Even being gay would have been difficult, let alone fall in love for a long haired psychic card reader who is also a pagan worshipper.

On the other hand, Gabe has never known what a real family means. Living with Sean is not a convenience, it’s a dream comes true, he has finally someone near him all the time. To the reader it could seem that it’s Gabe who hunts the nightmare away for Sean, but there are worst things happening by day that Gabe avoids being with Sean. While Sean’s story is presented to the reader since the first moment, Gabe’s ones remains hidden, like often happens with that type of trouble: Sean’s troubles are big but bare, everyone can see them, and maybe even jokes him for that, instead Gabe’s ones are more subdued and then more dangerous.

I like the development of the story, since it was not a boy meets boy and happily ever after, it was more a chronicle of all the steps they took to build their life together. Deciding to move in together was only the first step, but then they had to learn how to live together, how to take decision together, how to cope to adversities, big and small, together, how to fight each other together. Sean and Gabe are not building only a love relationship, they are tightening a bond that borders dangerously in dependency; I fear the moment they could be separated, I don’t think they would be able to survive.

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Shell Shocked by Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks

For sure it’s not an easy book: Sparrow and Brooks decided to lay bare the reality of two men who barely make end’s meet every month; they are not exactly poor, but they are not far from it.

When they meet, Sean is a vet from Iraq who was severely injured: he has fake knees that allow him to walk, if the time is good, but also give him great pain; he has a retina problem he solves using special glasses when outside; he is not able to walk outside without risking a breakdown and each rumour reminds him of the front. With the social security helps, the drugs from the system and a side-job as erotic romance writer he is not good, but he can go on. After a few months of this life he is also able to think to a relationship and his target is Gabe, the cute boy in a wheelchair he meets at the clinic. Before he has never had the courage to talk to him but in a particular good day, he finds it. From that moment on Gabe becomes his anchor.

Gabe is a psychic card reader by phone and like Sean, he is able to maintain himself without saving nothing. He is extremely independent but when he meets Sean, probably he recognizes a soul mate. Yes, it’s true, it’s probably the disability that bonds them together, and it’s obviously more convenient for them to live together, it’s cheaper, but I don’t think that it’s only that. Sean needs someone to take care of, to make him feel confident, when to everyone else it’s obvious that he is the one to need a caretaker. Sean has a family, a family that probably would have helped him, but instead he is living alone; I think Sean ran way from that life since he is no more the same person; he is no more the next door good boy. Even being gay would have been difficult, let alone fall in love for a long haired psychic card reader who is also a pagan worshipper.

On the other hand, Gabe has never known what a real family means. Living with Sean is not a convenience, it’s a dream comes true, he has finally someone near him all the time. To the reader it could seem that it’s Gabe who hunts the nightmare away for Sean, but there are worst things happening by day that Gabe avoids being with Sean. While Sean’s story is presented to the reader since the first moment, Gabe’s ones remains hidden, like often happens with that type of trouble: Sean’s troubles are big but bare, everyone can see them, and maybe even jokes him for that, instead Gabe’s ones are more subdued and then more dangerous.

I like the development of the story, since it was not a boy meets boy and happily ever after, it was more a chronicle of all the steps they took to build their life together. Deciding to move in together was only the first step, but then they had to learn how to live together, how to take decision together, how to cope to adversities, big and small, together, how to fight each other together. Sean and Gabe are not building only a love relationship, they are tightening a bond that borders dangerously in dependency; I fear the moment they could be separated, I don’t think they would be able to survive.

http://pinkpetalbooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=22&products_id=41

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Reading List:

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