For Love and Money by G.A. Hauser

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I was enthralled... I begin this book with no much wish, thinking to read some pages and then close up and sleep. Now four hours later I'm sleepy as hell but much more happy.

This book is funny and charming. It starts a little bit slow but grows up soon and conquers you.

Jason and Ethan were lovers. But Jason, a doctor, comes from a wealthy family of the northern England, who doesn't see well to have a gay son. So they blackmailed Jason to marry an unknown woman choose by them if he wants to inherited a great estate. And Jason is human, and not the perfect hero of usual romance, and so he accepts the deal and Ethan leaves, goes in America to follow his dream to be an actor.

One year later, when the book starts, Ethan is a famous actor and Jason is leaving a lie: he no more can stand his life and wants Ethan back, badly. But he is a 37 years old married doctor living in Carlisle, England, and Ethan a 21 years old movie star from Los Angeles, California: it is not so simple for the two find a way to be together.

The two characters are absolutely fantastic: Ethan is a knight in shining armour with a crack in the armour! Handsome, wealthy and spoilt, he can't imagine to live without all his money and comfort, but he is also deeply in love with Ethan, he wants to protect him; nevertheless he wants his quite life in an upperclass neighbourhood, possibly with Ethan by his side: in other words he wants the wife drunken and the barrel full!

Ethan is young and innocent: he is all feeling and not much thinking. He is not dumb, but he lets speak his heart instead of his mind. And he needs someone who drives him on the right path. He is fresh water in the bog.

And then there is the setting: all the classical elements of the movie star romance, scandal, luxury, big houses and five star hotels. And in a postcard world also the villains are nice (don't miss Adam and Jack!).

To finish I have also notice that the author use two very different writing styles when she makes speak the english characters or the american characters. I'm not English or American, so I can't judge if the spoken English is correct and accurate, sure she has allow me to indentify myself with the story and better undestand the diversity between the characters.

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Series:
1) The Physician and the Actor: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/154682.html
2) For Love and Money

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