2010-12-30

Crushed by J.M. Snyder

Wes has a crush on Nathan since high school. Too shy to make a move on him he has spent years lusting after the guy, seeing him fools around with other guys. Then the very last night of high school, the prom night, he has the chance to spend one night in the parking lot of the school, making out with his dream. Kisses and caresses, but nothing more and then Wes goes to college and have never seen again Nathan.

Years after Nathan is a clerkman who has grown tired of party and one stand night relationships and when he meets Wes at a friend's party, he sees the chance to continue where they have stopped that night. But Wes is on a relationship with Roger, even if things are not smooth.

Nathan is not of the idea to let this guy go. He is a very selfconsciousness guy, he knows to be handsome and nice and can't imagine a man not accept the chance to have what he so kindly gives. Sincerily, J.M. Snyder has made a very good job to not make him spoilt and nasty, because I, instead, find him beautiful, the teen dream comes true.

Wes is an average guy, gentle and nice. He is swept away by the tornado who is Nathan, but still he cares for Roger, even if later the man has begun to treat him nothing more then a convenient bedmate.

And then there is the third man, Roger. He could be the bad guy, who the reader has to hate. And instead I feel pain for him. Oh no, I don't want that Wes and Nathan don't find a way to be together, but a little part of me hopes that J.M. Snyder will find a way to give also to this man an happily ever after.

The story is all about feelings and interaptions between the three men. Sex is on the background, but it's a plus for the story, J.M. Snyder is a master in build the wait and stop it in the right moment: it has reminded me the heat between two teens who want to have all soon and are interrupted every time on the climax and set them to find soon another moment and another place...

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (December 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1456388347
ISBN-13: 978-1456388348

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Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005)

Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931, Brooklyn, New York – December 30, 2005, London, UK) was an American novelist.

Born in Brooklyn, Ms. Jaffe grew up in affluent circumstances on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the only child of Samuel Jaffe, an elementary-school principal, and his first wife, Diana (née Ginsberg). Her maternal grandfather was Moses Ginsberg, a millionaire construction magnate who built the Carlyle Hotel.

Jaffe wrote her first book, The Best of Everything, while working as an associate editor at Fawcett Publications in the 1950s. Published in 1958, it was later made into a movie, starring Joan Crawford. The book has been described as distinctly "pre-women's liberation" in the way it depicts women in the working world. Critic Camille Paglia noted in 2004 that the book and popular HBO series Sex and the City had much in common with Jaffe's novel in that the characters, who have similar lifestyles, are both "very much at the mercy of cads."

During the 1960s, in addition to writing more novels, she was hired by Helen Gurley Brown to write cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan with a "Sex and the Single Girl" slant.

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First Book - The Best of Everything (1958): The Best of Everything

Last Book - The Room-Mating Season (2003): The Room-Mating Season

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Crushed by J.M. Snyder

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