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terriaminute's review
4.0
The question isn't Was this compelling? or Did I enjoy the characters? or Does it have a great ending? or Were the conflicts character-driven? All of those are a resounding YES. In fact, I read this nearly straight through. It should have five stars, certainly more than four. Holding back that fifth star hurts a little. But it has to do with the visceral feel. Had the author shown me more than she did what Francis felt, rather than telling me, this would be a solid five star story. That she wrote it so well I could hardly stop reading despite that? Is amazing.
swamphag's review
4.0
Let me start of this review with a warning: don’t read this book if you are super triggered by consent issues. This deals with a character who is a prostitute and is having unwanted (by him) sex for money. If you have major issues with that, this book does go into details that will likely set you off.
Now that that is out of the way I would recommend that everyone else go read this book. I really didn’t know if I was going to like it or not because it had a religious family in it. Like Francis I was skeptical that they weren’t going to lecture him the whole time. I was pleasantly surprised!
Wynne did a fantastic job of making Randy’s family religious without being super naive/judgemental/whatever. They were good characters who happened to be religious and I really liked the way they interacted with Francis. It changed him and gave him more depth of character.
The growing relationship between Randy and Francis was okay at first, but by the end I could see it working. I thought Francis showed a lot of strength not just banging the preacher’s kid and running! No hitting and quitting for this guy.
Francis was a smartass who had a lot of trust issues, so beyond the whole homeless/prostitution thing I related to him a lot. I liked that neither Randy nor his family took his shit, so he couldn’t get away with pushing them out of his life.
Despite Francis’s hard life (like super hard, Wynne did not hold back) the angst in this book was just enough to ding your heart without leaving major gashes behind. I really enjoyed reading it and I am glad that it was a pleasant surprise for me.
Originally posted over at Just Love Romance: https://justloveromance.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/starting-new-sc-wynne/
Now that that is out of the way I would recommend that everyone else go read this book. I really didn’t know if I was going to like it or not because it had a religious family in it. Like Francis I was skeptical that they weren’t going to lecture him the whole time. I was pleasantly surprised!
Wynne did a fantastic job of making Randy’s family religious without being super naive/judgemental/whatever. They were good characters who happened to be religious and I really liked the way they interacted with Francis. It changed him and gave him more depth of character.
The growing relationship between Randy and Francis was okay at first, but by the end I could see it working. I thought Francis showed a lot of strength not just banging the preacher’s kid and running! No hitting and quitting for this guy.
Francis was a smartass who had a lot of trust issues, so beyond the whole homeless/prostitution thing I related to him a lot. I liked that neither Randy nor his family took his shit, so he couldn’t get away with pushing them out of his life.
Despite Francis’s hard life (like super hard, Wynne did not hold back) the angst in this book was just enough to ding your heart without leaving major gashes behind. I really enjoyed reading it and I am glad that it was a pleasant surprise for me.
Originally posted over at Just Love Romance: https://justloveromance.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/starting-new-sc-wynne/
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