Learning to Love (Moment of Truth 4) by A.J. Wilde

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All right, I'm sincere, I don't know if I personally like how the series evolved in the last chapter. Please take a good look to that "personally" word, this is an opinion of mine, and it's totally based on my personal taste, it's not a judgment on the value of the writer or the story.

The two cops in this series, Gary and Dan, both evolves in reverse flow. Gary starts like a very troubled man, who is not sure of his sexuality or his life at all. He was a molested child, he denied his homosexuality for a long time, and when he finally admitted his love interested to Dan, he found out that he probably was bisexual, not homosexual. At first both Gary than Dan probably thought that it was a remainder of that denial period, or maybe an hint that Gary was not ready or willing to seriously commit to only one person... but more the time passes, and more Gary realizes that he is not complete with both Dan than Kim by his side. If he is forced to choose, his love for Dan is stronger, and in book 3 he tried to commit to that love only, giving up his relationship with Kim.

On the other side Dan started like a very strong and self-conscious man. He was gay and proud, he was a cop by the book, he knew what it was right and wrong. He was the steady man that Gary needed to heal and flourish... or not? Being Dan so "straight" (no pun inteded), so convinced of his own idea, makes him quite inflexible. To live with Gary you have to comprimise. In the last three book Dan went through all the rollercoast that is a relationship, the happiness, the sadness, the denial of love and the realization that you can't live without. Now it's time for Dan to decide if he is willing to accept Gary as a faulty man, or if he wants to be alone with the icon of a dream man that is not real.

So, this is a menages... no way to avoid the definition. At least the author wrote it as I like it, with the male/male pair stronger, but nevertheless it's a menages. Kim is also a nice character, and in a way, the fact that she really is in love with only one of the two men, Gary, make all the story more real... Kim is in love with Gary, there is no competition inside her, like Dan is in love only with Gary. There is no relationship between Kim and Dan is not friendship... giving that, it's still a menages? Nice point of discussion.

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Series: Moment of Truth
1) To Serve and Protect: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/560100.html
2) Choosing the Light: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/675731.html
3) Missing the Ocean: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/709828.html
4) Learning to Love

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Comments

[mightymaeve.livejournal.com]

Hi Elisa! I noticed at the beginning of your review you emphasized it's your personal opinion...crazy how you have to remind people of that, since this is YOUR journal site! LOL *hugs* But I've read other journals of yours that I know you have problems sometimes!

Y'know, I don't usually read m/m/f, but this one sounds interesting. Perhaps, when I'm done all my m/m ...LOL

I'm glad you post reviews on things that you are rabidly wild about, because it gives more fodder for a larger spectrum of interests!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You know, sometime people take too much seriously what I do and write. If I say that I don't like menage, I'm not saying that I don't like the book or that the book is not good. I'm saying that probably it's not my cup of tea. But probably there are people out there that like it. One thing for sure: if I managed to finish a story that to begin with was not of my liking, well, so probably the story is good. Elisa