Secrets and Misdemeanors by G.A. Hauser

[reviews_and_ramblings]

First of all I have to check the meaning of Misdemeanors in my dictionary, and I didn't find it!!! I think to have understood the meaning in the context of the book, but, hey, my compliments to an author who has chosen to use it in her title!

All right, after I think five books I have read by G.A. Hauser, I have to admit that I like her books. Point. I don't know why, maybe cause she satisfies the romantic in me. Like in this one: Lyle is a 25 years old construction worker. He is handsome and nice: the first scene you read of him, I have imagined him like that hunk in the Coca Cola's ad (remember him? that lucious guy who enters in a office full of women bringing on his shoulder a big pack?). And Lyle is gay and he has an instant crush on David, the owner of the building he is working on and a big-money lawyer.

David is a 41 years old handsome nearly divorced man. Unlike Lyle, he is not the hunk type, he is more like a Richard Gere of Kurosawa's movie rather than the American Gigolo's era. And since his divorce he has had a lonely and all work life. His only joy are those days he spend with his sons. But he has a bitch as ex wife and sometime she manages to ruin also that. David is not gay, but he has no problem to admit that even him is attracted to a beautiful man like Lyle (and maybe this is the only part of the book I have found a little to fast, David sets his mind on the gay thing too fast), and when Lyle makes a move on him, he eagerly accepts the unexpected gift he is receiving. And when he has a taste of such a sweet man, he seems to be not able to go back to his old life: he wants Lyle all for him, everytime and everywhere. But now is Lyle that makes a step back: all is happening too fast and too strong, how he can give up his shitty life to live in a penthouse with a man like David, tender and caring? HOW!!! Well, Lyle, sets your mind in the right track and accepts the dreams of every women on earth! And joke apart, this is maybe one of the things why I like so much G.A. Hauser's books, the subtle (and sometime not so subtle) irony she puts in everything and the glimpses on a all-glittering world no one of us will have never the chance to see in person: money, fashion, movieland and thing like that. 

In the end my comparison to Richard Gere for David is not so strange: this story is more or less like a M/M Pretty Woman, with our David in the role of the too perfect and without a life businessman and Lyle in the role of the pennyless lover who is too proud to be kept by his older and richer "daddy".

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Series:
1) Miller's Tale
2) Secrets and Misdemeanors

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Comments

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Hi Elisa

I never catch up with your pace of reading. Months ago I used to read one a week, but now... I don't watch TV, then why?

Anyway, this one sounds good. You don't write the ending (Ok, you can't spoil the plot) so that I'm a bit dying to know Lyle's decision. Good review.

Maximilian

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

My preferred by G.A. Hauser is For Love and Money (that is the sequel of The Physician and the Actor, but you can read it stand alone). You will find my pill reviews for all the book by G.A. Hauser in my LJ (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/tag/g.a.+hauser).

I like her style, she is a mix of very crude language (she was a cop before being a writer) and starry in eyes situation (actors, models, wealthy people...).

Elisa