It has more passionate kisses per page than I've ever encountered before, home-cooked meals by candle light, candles in the bathroom for a romantic shower "a deux", and more declarations of "I love you" than the Hallmark card aisle at Valentine's day. Sticky, sweet, sugary, cloying in a short, overpriced book. At best, it's a novella, at an Amazon price that I normally pay for really well-written, profoundly moving examples of the Gay Romance genre.
This book supposedly deals with physical and sexual child abuse, but it glosses right over that into the "survivors" of abuse years later. To my mind, it's unfair and unrealistic to paint them as year-olds who talk like year-olds begging to be cuddled and sung to by their parent and brother. I thought, at any moment, the author was going to describe the man sucking his thumb. Or the year-old protagonist who is still a virgin, and who, despite his advanced degrees in psychology and sociology, cannot utter the word "sex" without falling apart.
Add to that a very brief, but forgettable, Charles Dickens villainess a third rate Cruella Deville shouting homophobic curses as she gets led away in handcuffs , and you have a good idea of the torture this book inflicted on me. If you're looking for a thoughtful, meaningful and moving book about the love between two men, go ahead and skip this one. It doesn't have a clue. In fact, as a gay man, I found it hard to believe that ANY of the men in this book were actualy gay men - to my mind, they all came off as women.
I don't know any gay men who resemble these characters in any way, shape or form. And trust me, I understand child abuse - I was a physically abused child until I ran away at This author, sadly, is just not one of them. One person found this helpful. I really enjoyed the previous story called "Soldier" but I think this story was just created as an afterthought.
I hate it when I know where it's going when I'm just one chapter in.
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