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A review by cadiva
Connection Error by Annabeth Albert
5.0
My favourite of the three. I'm a sucker for military men and hurting ones in needed of finding the right person to comfort them is my kryptonite.
I also loved that the other MC in this story is someone living with ADHD, and the sympathetic and brutally truthful way Annabeth Albert deals with both these men's disabilities makes this book a little more real but no less a romantic journey.
Sex is also dealt with with an honesty that throws the spotlight on how a profound life changing incident can make someone lose all sense of who they are and how they used to be. For Navy SEAL Ryan, it means not only facing months of rehab, but also having to find how to be a sexually active gay man again.
With some beautifully crafted scenes and a little bit of Josiah's innate inability to cut through the bull and just say what he's thinking, their relationship slowly grows and changes from Ryan feeling like he can't desert the younger man who he helped out when they got stuck with a cancelled flight into a friendship which is both soothing and stimulating.
It's difficult to pin just what made this book so good for me, there isn't a lot of steam in it, although there are a couple of very hot sessions, but there is a real sense of a relationship slowly blossoming from a chance encounter into a partnership of equals and the lodestone on which each man is able to lean on the other.
Plus it had ridiculously cute Labrador puppy Gracie, two wonderfully sympathetic mothers and the same madcap setting and secondary characters as the first two.
Will we get Pike and Zack next perhaps?
I also loved that the other MC in this story is someone living with ADHD, and the sympathetic and brutally truthful way Annabeth Albert deals with both these men's disabilities makes this book a little more real but no less a romantic journey.
Sex is also dealt with with an honesty that throws the spotlight on how a profound life changing incident can make someone lose all sense of who they are and how they used to be. For Navy SEAL Ryan, it means not only facing months of rehab, but also having to find how to be a sexually active gay man again.
With some beautifully crafted scenes and a little bit of Josiah's innate inability to cut through the bull and just say what he's thinking, their relationship slowly grows and changes from Ryan feeling like he can't desert the younger man who he helped out when they got stuck with a cancelled flight into a friendship which is both soothing and stimulating.
It's difficult to pin just what made this book so good for me, there isn't a lot of steam in it, although there are a couple of very hot sessions, but there is a real sense of a relationship slowly blossoming from a chance encounter into a partnership of equals and the lodestone on which each man is able to lean on the other.
Plus it had ridiculously cute Labrador puppy Gracie, two wonderfully sympathetic mothers and the same madcap setting and secondary characters as the first two.
Will we get Pike and Zack next perhaps?