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lbrick363's review against another edition
2.0
The slow love story was pretty good, but I didn't like the plot twist. Calley is an awful character.
maya56's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked the story between the 2 MCs. While there certainly was instant attraction, it took real work for them to develop a truly intimate relationship. The whole Calley/baby fiasco? I'm choosing to disregard it; otherwise my rating would have to be much lower and I don't want to do that because I really liked the Flynn/Gable storyline.
billydoubledown's review against another edition
4.0
I would give this story 3.5 stars. I really liked the character Flynn but I could have done without meeting Grant in the story, just hearing about him was enough. I think Calley's role was a little to flushed out as well.
claudia_is_reading's review against another edition
3.0
A good story at some point, as I enjoyed Flynn and Gable journey and the way in which both overcame the obstacles than life and themselves put in the way. But that's all that was good in it.
I don't like Calley, at all. If that's the best than Gable can do in the friend's front I really pity him. I don't like Bill, either and I despise Will Grant with a passion worth of better destination.
And I wasn't very fond of the pregnancy plot, to say the less. I mean, it's just me, or it is really creepy to ask your former lover (who was also Gable's lover at the time, let's not forget this!) and his present lover, at the same time you ask your supposedly best friend and his lover too, to participate in this kind of pregnancy's lottery? Because, IMHO, that was beyond creepy and I would run away screaming if it had happened to me.
Oh, well... maybe it's just me :P
I don't like Calley, at all. If that's the best than Gable can do in the friend's front I really pity him. I don't like Bill, either and I despise Will Grant with a passion worth of better destination.
And I wasn't very fond of the pregnancy plot, to say the less. I mean, it's just me, or it is really creepy to ask your former lover (who was also Gable's lover at the time, let's not forget this!) and his present lover, at the same time you ask your supposedly best friend and his lover too, to participate in this kind of pregnancy's lottery? Because, IMHO, that was beyond creepy and I would run away screaming if it had happened to me.
Oh, well... maybe it's just me :P
samanatha's review
3.0
3/5
The 'oops! No condom!' plot line is always risky for an author. While I tend to find the accidental pregnancy plot amusing, I am not laughing in this case. I had to check when this book was published to see if the author was just ignorant to social health issues or was being completely negligent. I was disappointed to note the author engaged in this event for her characters for no good reason. This is an incredibly big deal and to dismiss it out of hand reflects so badly on the author. Literature has power and setting acceptable norms in the written word is one proactively way to create change. Having these characters practice unsafe sex didn't add to the story and really could have easily been addressed with one or two lines related to spare condoms and 'oh thank goodness'. It was hard for me to get back on track afterward.
Overall this book is good enough, but suffered from what I think of as the Indie Syndrome. Indie movies and books often leave one with a feeling of 'what was that?' This sense that there are missing pieces or that things didn't really get resolved. There was a lot going on here and so much of it seems to still be drifting at the end. When I reached the last page, I kept turning thinking there had to be more. My main thought now is 'whatever'. It was a good effort.
The 'oops! No condom!' plot line is always risky for an author. While I tend to find the accidental pregnancy plot amusing, I am not laughing in this case. I had to check when this book was published to see if the author was just ignorant to social health issues or was being completely negligent. I was disappointed to note the author engaged in this event for her characters for no good reason. This is an incredibly big deal and to dismiss it out of hand reflects so badly on the author. Literature has power and setting acceptable norms in the written word is one proactively way to create change. Having these characters practice unsafe sex didn't add to the story and really could have easily been addressed with one or two lines related to spare condoms and 'oh thank goodness'. It was hard for me to get back on track afterward.
Overall this book is good enough, but suffered from what I think of as the Indie Syndrome. Indie movies and books often leave one with a feeling of 'what was that?' This sense that there are missing pieces or that things didn't really get resolved. There was a lot going on here and so much of it seems to still be drifting at the end. When I reached the last page, I kept turning thinking there had to be more. My main thought now is 'whatever'. It was a good effort.
calila's review
2.0
I was really enjoying this. Until the last 50 pages or so. Loved the realistic take on injury/illness i.e. Gable not being able to perform. You never see that. Ever. I also really liked that Flynn stuck it out with him, and understood where Gable's angry outburst were coming from and didn't let him push him away. Now what ruined the end for me. I can't stand Calley. I think she's a horrible selfish woman who cares for no one but herself. I honestly do not understand why Gable has anything to do with her. I hate how things are re-written at the end to justify her horribleness, all of a sudden Gable was never in love with Grant to make it okay that Gable's supposed best friend had an affair with him okay I guess , and Brad (I think is his name) is a horrible husband to make her cheating with Grant understandable? which it doesn't . It really just soured the book for me. And Grant, I really don't like how everyone is Gable's life, except Flynn just brushed off how shitty what Grant did was. I see the ret-con that Grant didn't know about the injury, fine whatever. But the way he treated Gable aside from that? It's still shitty. Ugh.
janesaysb2850's review
5.0
After reading a TON of crappy ebooks, it was really nice to find a sweet and caring story with a LOT of intimacy between the MCs... especially when one is a stubborn, silent cowboy and the other is a guy who actually gives him space! Remarkable! (And it still has a lot of hot stuff, tee hee.)
There are a lot of things about this story that follow familiar formulas, but they're dealt with in quietly unexpected ways. This was a real pleasure to read.
Gable Sutton is an older (not really specified, but probably later 40s?) cowboy, very solitary, with an injured foot that won't heal (he refuses to go back to the doctor -- oh, MEN!). Flynn Tomlinson is younger, answering Gable's ad for a ranch hand. They (duh) fall in love, and then Gable ends up needing his foot amputated because of another accident. That's barely even the first half of the book.
It's very Brokeback Mountain without the sad parts :) Gable is VERY strong, silent, stubborn, can't bring himself to express how he feels or ask for help, especially because he was really burned by his last lover. Yada yada yada, you know the drill... but the author makes it feel very natural to the character.
The really lovely thing is Flynn's patience (and, naturally, frustration at times) as he helps Gable learn to trust himself and the relationship. Of COURSE Gable has a difficult time getting used to all sorts of things with Flynn around, before and after the amputation. But even though they have some genuinely difficult moments, Flynn sticks with him and keeps a really careful balance. They also don't get into that cliched "I'm going to do everything in my power to get you out of that bed!" thing that "recovery" stories often have.
I should mention, too, that two other issues come into play: impotence and infertility. They don't distract too much from the plot, but there are a couple twists to how they deal with them. It deepened the relationship between the MCs.
Even better: the plot doesn't get derailed by any deus ex machina betrayals, sneering drunk neighbors who want to avenge their pa, or incredibly stupid misunderstandings. The author keeps the action focused on the main characters, but the secondary characters fit well into the plot and complicate things without seeming forced.
It was SO refreshing. If you're looking for something sweeping and anguished, this isn't your book. All of the conflict is very intimate and tender, although it's deeply felt.
But it's still got a ton of hot moments I'm not particularly into M/M stuff, but I sure did like this one.
There are a lot of things about this story that follow familiar formulas, but they're dealt with in quietly unexpected ways. This was a real pleasure to read.
Gable Sutton is an older (not really specified, but probably later 40s?) cowboy, very solitary, with an injured foot that won't heal (he refuses to go back to the doctor -- oh, MEN!). Flynn Tomlinson is younger, answering Gable's ad for a ranch hand. They (duh) fall in love, and then Gable ends up needing his foot amputated because of another accident. That's barely even the first half of the book.
It's very Brokeback Mountain without the sad parts :) Gable is VERY strong, silent, stubborn, can't bring himself to express how he feels or ask for help, especially because he was really burned by his last lover. Yada yada yada, you know the drill... but the author makes it feel very natural to the character.
The really lovely thing is Flynn's patience (and, naturally, frustration at times) as he helps Gable learn to trust himself and the relationship. Of COURSE Gable has a difficult time getting used to all sorts of things with Flynn around, before and after the amputation. But even though they have some genuinely difficult moments, Flynn sticks with him and keeps a really careful balance. They also don't get into that cliched "I'm going to do everything in my power to get you out of that bed!" thing that "recovery" stories often have.
I should mention, too, that two other issues come into play: impotence and infertility. They don't distract too much from the plot, but there are a couple twists to how they deal with them. It deepened the relationship between the MCs.
Even better: the plot doesn't get derailed by any deus ex machina betrayals, sneering drunk neighbors who want to avenge their pa, or incredibly stupid misunderstandings. The author keeps the action focused on the main characters, but the secondary characters fit well into the plot and complicate things without seeming forced.
It was SO refreshing. If you're looking for something sweeping and anguished, this isn't your book. All of the conflict is very intimate and tender, although it's deeply felt.
But it's still got a ton of hot moments I'm not particularly into M/M stuff, but I sure did like this one.
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