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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I buy and read gay romance novels because I want to read a romance about two men. Not two high school girls disguised as gay men.

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Nor do I want to read about the group of friends who are the equivalent of the high school girls during lunch. Nor do I want to read a novel that's mostly whining about how bad life is or how lonely it is or whatever. This isn't angst; It's whine. The dialogue was also awful.

If I was diabetic I'd be concerned about my blood sugar. And then miraculously, we're both wrong, we're both sorry, i love you, happy happy joy joy. Name dropping about an appointment with Spielberg. I just feel that the whole thing felt contrived. I'm sorry, this may have been a little harsh, but I really feel this was a waste of my time. She never fails to deliver all the emotions. This is, by far, her best work to date.

These two men hit me with all the feels. It was an enotional rollercoaster ride, a ride I glady stayed on from beginning to end. Garrett did not make a good impression on me when he we met him briefly in a previous book, but I was still intrigued by him. After overstepping his boundries with someone he thought he loved, he flees to the mountains.

There he meets A-List superstar Dean, who is also on vacation to find himself. Sparks fly big time with these two, and the chemistry between them is off the charts! What I do love about this author is the way she writes her characters that on some level I can connect with either one or both of them. For a first in a new series, this is a spectacular start and a tough act to follow. But knowing the author, she is most def going to blow us away with the next book. One person found this helpful.

And I was smitten with Dean and Garrett. It was so easy to believe that these two loved and were in love with one another. Loyal readers will be pleased to discover that Michaels has returned several much-loved characters from previous books but no worries, Written on My Heart can be read as a standalone. It was all so right. Dean and Garrett were so right. Annabella Michaels never dissapoints!

This book has it all! Garrett, hiding out and feeling miserable after overstepping boundaries with Akio retreats to his grandparents mountain cabin. Instead of writing his next book, he is consumed with remorse. Deciding to snap out of it he plans a 2 week trip to Maui to get his act together. He retreats to his home on Maui for a much needed vacation. Can you meet and fall in love in a short period of time?

Will Garrett be able to deal with his life being put on public display? This is a beautiful story of how true love can conquer all. Loved, loved, loved this book! Awesome start to a new series.

LOVE each new book and with spin-offs like this the side characters you fell in love with get more depth and their own happy ending. We met Garrett in 'Constructing the Soul -Souls of Chicago series' and he wasn't in the best place at the end of that. Garrett definitely breaks your heart and you can relate since I think everyone has liked someone that didn't return those feeling. He is sweet, shy and awkward at times which makes him sexy and special. In comes the hot alpha movie star Dean who is more then what people see he's a nice guy and wants to be happy.

These two fall for each other without meaning to. Add in side characters from the past series and a island background and I couldn't put this down. I laughed, cried and cheered these guys to overcome their insecurities and take a chance. Loved the ending and can't wait to see what more can come from this Universe. I just love the stories from Annabelle Michaels. She is a great storyteller and I just loved the Souls of Chicago series, which is where we first met Garrett. This was a cute-meet story and has been told before, but Ms.

Michaels seems to always go into greater detail and you really learn to like the characters and feel for them. Dean and Garrett were adorable.

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I can't wait to see if Jasper and Travis get stories because that is going to be interesting to say the least. This one had been sitting in my TBR since I one clicked on release day. I absolutely loved Garrett and Dean. Is the story a little to much sweet and a lot of fiction, YES!

Do I love that in a story? Honestly, this has been one of my favorite reads this year. I loved the the MC's, I loved the side character's and I loved the story. History of a Pleasure Seeker. A novel Vintage International. The narrator, a lifelong philanderer "I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick" , has fallen in love with Louise, a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholic cancer researcher, so the narrator leads her into a sexually combative affair.

This scenario seems obvious enough, but Winterson never reveals whether the narrator is male or female. Rather, she teases readers out of their expectations about women and men and romance: Louise calls the narrator "the most beautiful creature male or female that I have ever seen," and the narrator observes, "I thought difference was rated to be the largest part of sexual attraction but there are so many things about us that are the same. Winterson manipulates gender expertly here, but her real achievement is her manipulation of genre: Did I invent her?

For Louise--and the narrator's love for her--never seems quite real; in this cold-hearted novel love itself, however eloquently expressed, is finally nothing more than a product of the imagination. Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. The story is minimal and not altogether original: The fascination is the lush, plush language and the way two aspects of the physical--passion and bodily decay--are delicately interwoven.

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Not to everyone's taste, but serious readers and sensualists will enjoy. See all Editorial Reviews. Product details File Size: Vintage April 17, Publication Date: April 17, Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention written on the body jeanette winterson love loss read this book married woman gender of the narrator main character love story love and lust measure of love thought provoking human nature male or female enjoyed the book ever read years ago beautifully written work of art never read man or a woman.

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Early on the Winterson timeline. A master of language and the written word; rending story, gracefully told and with a good sense of humour. I recommend to anyone who still searches for the literature section. It is well known, one of the tricky feats of this story is that Winterson never reveals the sex of the narrator, which is a hard thing to do without the prose ever feeling strained and without me, the reader, ever caring.

I've read it both ways. Perhaps she has demonstrated that even romantic love transcends sex. It you like heady thoughts and well-written stories, this is, in my opinion, one of her best. I bought two copies. One, years ago, when it was first published. It's well read, dog eared, filled with notes and page markers. One I keep pristine so I can always read it anew. I get something different from it each time. Each time it shakes me, deeply. Sometimes I get a good laugh, sometimes I open a deep bleeding gash.

Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson is not really a novel, as much as a meditation on romantic love, sex, and what it means to be an embodied being. There are some neat tricks in the novel. We never find out if the narrator is male or female. So eros becomes free floating, detached from gender. This brings with it limitations. Male and female desire have elements in common, but also, generally, dissimilarities.

She is not as adept at telling a story as outlining the landscape of human desire. So the end comes with a plop. After some gorgeous prose, we are treated to a happy conclusion that brings little joy. One person found this helpful. In Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson takes on some fundamental questions: What do fidelity and responsibility really mean?

It is often in examining the extremes that we can find answers. The narrator lives in the extreme - profound restless, intense eagerness, unequivocal passion, turbulent relationships. What can a soul want more than passion - the intense consuming passion that elevates love and life to the umpteenth degree? Passion is the fire of life. Whereas many of us might long for that level of passion and intensity, Winterson not only describes it, but also takes up the question of its sustainability.

How can it be sustainable? Then there are other questions: What does it really mean to truly love another? Should one let the loved one go if it saves their life? If so, can one decide for another? If so, what is life without love? In her brilliant narration, astute observations, sensual descriptions and philosophical musings, Written on the Body celebrates the sensual body and feeds the philosophical mind. Whether it provides answers or not, that is a more complicated question. After all, as Susan Sontag said, "The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

I love the way that the author describes some things, because they're rarely described that way.