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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-05-29 10:42 pm
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-05-29 10:42 pm
Crossing the Line by Stephanie Vaughan
Are you tired of me? You have enough of all my amateur reviews on M/M romance? If the answer is yes, well blame it on Stephanie Vaughan and on her Crossing the Line. This is my first M/M romance and if I didn't like it so much more than 2 years ago, today you would be free from my presence on LJ. I still have the original file, it's dated February 27, 2006. In that period I was bored, or maybe full, of classical romance. I was trying some new genre, was pretty taken by the Carpathians of Christine Feehan, but still I hadn't found a genre which really took me. And then a friend of mine dared me to read an M/M romance and Crossing the line was the choice. I believe that all of you know what happened next 1.145 M/M romance books and 650 reviews later (and yes I don't review all the book I read...) I'm still reading M/M romance and this is all fault of Stephanie Vaughan.Jamie is a mechanic for wealthy people. He has a garage like a private clinic, only the richer can afford his prices and times. And he is also an handsome man, built like a brick, well "endowed" and caring. But till now he has only met greedy twinks or men who want only a friends with benefits relationship (like Ben, the main character of the previous book, Jumping the Fence). But Jamie is read for a steady relationship, even if he is still attract from the fair type of man.
Ryan is just his type. Blond, beach boys look, with almost a noble aurea around him. He is a waiter in Jamie's favourite restaurant and usually Jamie is used to go home with the waiters he fancies. But Ryan is not is usual pretty boy, he is just out from a long term relationship ended with the death of his lover, and he thinks to not be ready for climb again upon the horse. And so he offers resistance to Jamie's approaches and this awakens Jamie's interest. Now he wants Ryan more than before.
I like Jamie, he is a self-made man with a successful life but still he remains inside the poor gay guy who had to watch behind his shoulders. He can be strong in body but he is very fragile in soul. But he has not a frozen heart, au contraire he is till much open and exposed to hearbreaks. He needs a very careful man to comprehend and love him as he deserves.
Ryan is a man aged too fast. He jumped from careless sex to steady relationship with an older man in a blink of an eye, and after his lover's death, he has repressed his pain, maybe cause he thought to not deserve to suffer. And even if he has decided to give up for a bit to men and relationships, when he meets Jamie, he can't deny this wonderful man he stumbles upon. If only he would manage to convince the man to be wonderful...
As you can image the story is not so complex or full of twists... it's a pure and classical romance, very tender and sweet, but also pretty hot when we arrive to the sex scenes. It's a right way to start reading this type of romance, if you are not used to them, and an enjoyable and satisfying reading if you are addicted to them. I re-read it, more I re-bought it, initially to see if the author changed something, but in the end I read the second book without neither open the previous one.
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Amazon: Crossing the Line (Oc Pride)
Series: OC Pride:
1) Jumping the Fence: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/208002.html
2) Crossing the Line
Reading List:
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Elisa
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Of course, it was the first of many, both m/m and m/f.
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Thank you so much for the wonderful things you do to help us readers find new ways to use our credit cards. And oh yeah? I'm going to order this one right away.
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Wow.
Seriously. Awesome. Thank you.
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