reviews_and_ramblings | Muscle Car Man by Deirdre O'Dare

Jeff is a former high tech business man who now manages a classic car junkyard. The passage is not easy and Jeff is in dear need of an help hand; so when he gives a lift to an hiker and comes out that the young man knows his way around cars, the fact that he is an ex con is not a problem. Jess is trusting his instinct and his instinct tells him that Mike is a good guy who was in a trouble but payed and now deserves another chance.

From not having a roof on his head and no perspective for tomorrow, to find a job and an home in the same day, the jump is big. But Mike is not the type to look a gift horse in the mouth, and he is willing to prove to Jeff that he deserves that chance. And then Jeff is a very nice guy, and after spending three years in a jail where his sexual life was not his choice, Mike would like to have a safe and steady relationship with a nice man.

The story is good, maybe a bit too good feelings to be true: Jeff is really too perfect, he is nice, he is trusting, he is also accepting and supporting. I don't believe that a man like him really exists out there, and if exists, he is for sure already taken. Also Mike is, in a way, too trusting and open, but, well, he is 21 years old and probably no one in his life give him a gentle hand before, so probably for him, is only right to fall so hard and soon for Jeff.

What lacks in the story is all the aftermath of Jeff and Mike first time; there is an hint to Jeff's friends, a chance to see them together with other people, to test their relationship in the open, and instead the author simple skip that part. I don't know, but an ex-con and gay in a Small Town USA... I don't think it's a so simple situation. But the book is only 40 pages long, so probably, we can't expect more, probably it's just enough that the story has an original start point and setting.

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