A Test of Love (The Solitary Knights of Pelham Bay 2) by Claire Thompson

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The series by Claire Thompson about a group of single men who are reconsidering their life to understand if they have found and lost their only chance at love is becoming better book after book. After the story of the two college sweetheart who meet again 20 years later to realize that they are still in love like they were so many years ago, it’s now the time of the classical May / December relationship, the crush of a student for his college professor.

Ryan was 20 years old and madly in love for handsome professor Tom, who was 35 years old and the only other gay man Ryan knew about. Probably if Tom surrendered to Ryan’s crush as the boy pleaded with liquid puppy eyes, their relationship wouldn’t have lasted the test of time. Ryan was too young and innocent, more than love it was adoration what he felt for Tom, and Tom was too good a man to profit of the young boy. And then there was also the problem of Tom’s work and the times were different, it would have ruined Tom’s reputation. So these 20 years served to both of them, to Ryan to taste life and to realize what he really wants from it and to Tom to wait and see the gap between them diminish: where 15 years between a 20 years old boy and a 35 years old professor is an insurmountable difference, between a 35 years old professional and a very handsome 50 years old man could be the right distance. Ryan was hurt in the past and he needs a gentle and caring man, Tom suffered the loss of a loved one and maybe Ryan’s youth pushed away the fear that it can happen again.

I like the fact that both Tom and Ryan are aware of Tom’s age, this is indeed also a classical Silver Romance, with Tom being over 40 and at his second chance at love; but in the end, Tom is the “younger” of the two, since, despite being wounded by love in the past, he has not yet let it go the hope that love is still in the future for him; and it will be him that will teach again to Ryan, only that this time he will teach a life lesson, that it’s never too late to fall in love.

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Series: The Solitary Knights of Pelham Bay
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2) A Test of Love

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