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A review by stang_gt3
Long Time Gone by S.E. Jakes
5.0
So remember how I wasn’t that huge a fan of the first book in the series, I mean I liked the characters and all, but the overall book just didn’t pull together for me…yeah NOT the case this time around! I really, really enjoyed this one. Of course snarky alpha males and crazy shenanigans always make me happy.
It’s been four months since Tom chose to leave the partnership with Prophet to protect the man he was falling for from Tom’s bad luck. And he’s been nothing but miserable since. Leaving Prophet was the biggest mistake of his life and Tom knows it. He’s written the man an email almost every day since, holding out hope for some sort of response even if it was to tell him to back the hell off, and in four months, nothing. Now there’s a hurricane bearing down on his home in New Orleans and all he wants is to get home to help keep his aunt safe. Being on the back ass side of nowhere on assignment though, and under orders to stay there, isn’t helping keep Tom sane.
Prophet hasn’t let himself read any one of Tom’s emails because he knows once he does he’ll head back to the man that left him behind. Notwithstanding the fat that when Tom ran so did Prophet. He’s buried himself deep into a few black ops missions and left EE behind. It’s now or never though. Prophet knows if he takes the next assignment they want to hand his way he won’t be coming back up for air any time in the near future if at all. Reading Tom’s letters is the life line he needs to pull him back and they quickly send him straight into the eye of a hurricane to protect Tom’s loved ones from nature’s deadly force. Now if only the hurricane was the hard part of this trip.
First of all I’m more than a little in love with Tommy and yes, I still melt every time Prophet calls him that. There’s something about that boy that just does it for me…oh so hot piercings and tattoos certainly help. I like that in this book Tommy certainly doesn’t want to open up about his past and reveal his vulnerabilities, but he’s realized his stupid and is working to get past it. None of that is easy though and it’s still like pulling teeth but he’s learning.
On the other side I want to smack Proph and make him open up a little bit. You can just feel him yearning to trust Tommy and tell him all, but not wanting to get Tom hurt. I want to just shake him and say SPILL IT ALREADY! Stupid boys! I do enjoy snarky Prophet though and like him as a compliment to Tom. They’re a good, strong team.
I appreciated that the paranormal type elements were a bit more toned down here. Tom’s hunches and voodoo senses are still in play, but there was a lot less of the shenanigans with Prophet’s ghosts. I’m still not even really sure what’s going on there and those segments usually throw me out of the story a little bit.
If I had one other minor little irksome thing about this series it’s that sometimes I get a little confused as to who is talking between Prophet and Tom as their voices are very similar. When they get to talking back and forth to each other and throwing out their own little jokes and jabs the “he said/he replied’s” get left off and I’d lose who was saying what. It’s a minor annoyance as it doesn’t happen often enough to really bug me, but is does detract from my ease at reading the story at times.
Still I enjoyed Tom’s past coming back to slap him in the face and say deal with me. I liked that it forced Tom and Prophet to start talking to each other and stop being quite so stupid. The epilogue really sealed the deal for me that these two are making progress. I know that Tom’s not going to back down, but is going to be there to help Prophet out when the going gets rough on his side.
Of course if I could have had anything more in this story to make me happy it would have been to see more of Aunt Della and her lovely borders in Dave and Roger. These three were awesome even when they’re getting their titillation on spying on some crazy hot reunion sex between Proph and Tommy. All three made me giggle at times and I wanted to see more interactions with the lot of them.
All in all the past history in New Orleans for Tom explained a lot and old grudges returning helped bring these two closer together. I’ll definitely be looking for a similar reveal on Proph’s part in the next book. It’s time he let Tommy in a whole heap of a lot closer. ☺ I’d give this one a solid 4.5 stars overall but I’ll round up this time as I really did enjoy the read and I want a Tommy to claim for myself! This could potentially be a bad thing though…they might have to commit me, I’m sure someone would think I was the crazy loony woman. ;) As I’d be a mindless drooling mess every time I looked across the room.
It’s been four months since Tom chose to leave the partnership with Prophet to protect the man he was falling for from Tom’s bad luck. And he’s been nothing but miserable since. Leaving Prophet was the biggest mistake of his life and Tom knows it. He’s written the man an email almost every day since, holding out hope for some sort of response even if it was to tell him to back the hell off, and in four months, nothing. Now there’s a hurricane bearing down on his home in New Orleans and all he wants is to get home to help keep his aunt safe. Being on the back ass side of nowhere on assignment though, and under orders to stay there, isn’t helping keep Tom sane.
Prophet hasn’t let himself read any one of Tom’s emails because he knows once he does he’ll head back to the man that left him behind. Notwithstanding the fat that when Tom ran so did Prophet. He’s buried himself deep into a few black ops missions and left EE behind. It’s now or never though. Prophet knows if he takes the next assignment they want to hand his way he won’t be coming back up for air any time in the near future if at all. Reading Tom’s letters is the life line he needs to pull him back and they quickly send him straight into the eye of a hurricane to protect Tom’s loved ones from nature’s deadly force. Now if only the hurricane was the hard part of this trip.
First of all I’m more than a little in love with Tommy and yes, I still melt every time Prophet calls him that. There’s something about that boy that just does it for me…oh so hot piercings and tattoos certainly help. I like that in this book Tommy certainly doesn’t want to open up about his past and reveal his vulnerabilities, but he’s realized his stupid and is working to get past it. None of that is easy though and it’s still like pulling teeth but he’s learning.
On the other side I want to smack Proph and make him open up a little bit. You can just feel him yearning to trust Tommy and tell him all, but not wanting to get Tom hurt. I want to just shake him and say SPILL IT ALREADY! Stupid boys! I do enjoy snarky Prophet though and like him as a compliment to Tom. They’re a good, strong team.
I appreciated that the paranormal type elements were a bit more toned down here. Tom’s hunches and voodoo senses are still in play, but there was a lot less of the shenanigans with Prophet’s ghosts. I’m still not even really sure what’s going on there and those segments usually throw me out of the story a little bit.
If I had one other minor little irksome thing about this series it’s that sometimes I get a little confused as to who is talking between Prophet and Tom as their voices are very similar. When they get to talking back and forth to each other and throwing out their own little jokes and jabs the “he said/he replied’s” get left off and I’d lose who was saying what. It’s a minor annoyance as it doesn’t happen often enough to really bug me, but is does detract from my ease at reading the story at times.
Still I enjoyed Tom’s past coming back to slap him in the face and say deal with me. I liked that it forced Tom and Prophet to start talking to each other and stop being quite so stupid. The epilogue really sealed the deal for me that these two are making progress. I know that Tom’s not going to back down, but is going to be there to help Prophet out when the going gets rough on his side.
Of course if I could have had anything more in this story to make me happy it would have been to see more of Aunt Della and her lovely borders in Dave and Roger. These three were awesome even when they’re getting their titillation on spying on some crazy hot reunion sex between Proph and Tommy. All three made me giggle at times and I wanted to see more interactions with the lot of them.
All in all the past history in New Orleans for Tom explained a lot and old grudges returning helped bring these two closer together. I’ll definitely be looking for a similar reveal on Proph’s part in the next book. It’s time he let Tommy in a whole heap of a lot closer. ☺ I’d give this one a solid 4.5 stars overall but I’ll round up this time as I really did enjoy the read and I want a Tommy to claim for myself! This could potentially be a bad thing though…they might have to commit me, I’m sure someone would think I was the crazy loony woman. ;) As I’d be a mindless drooling mess every time I looked across the room.