1 out of 5 stars
Ebook. 222 pages. Published April 10th 2018
Blurb:
Their bond is
forbidden. Their relationship could upend lives. But their love? It’s a force
of nature…
Ten years
ago, a desperate and confused Robert Glazer briefly married a woman before
confronting his sexuality and starting his life as an out gay man. They
divorced and lost contact – until now.
Today, a sudden family death throws Robert and
his ex-wife back together for the first time. That’s where Robert meets her son
Eliot, who was raised with his own father and is now a gorgeous – and openly
gay – adult. And to Robert and Eliot’s surprise, sparks fly.
Passion ignites, then threatens to explode. Soon
Eliot knows three things. One: Robert is not his father figure, and never was –
in fact, he barely remembers him. Two: news of their union would still rock his
whole world. And three: he craves Robert more than anything he has ever wanted.
And as suspicions arise, their attraction only grows…
Likes:
- The blurb sucked me in.
- The prologue made me interested.
- The cover is hot.
Dislikes:
- Everything else.
DNF 5%
I was excited when this book showed up in my BookBub email because I was looking for another book to read. What a disappointment.
Maybe I’m getting more picky the older I get (I’ll turn 30 next year) but I had a very strong negative reaction to this book. Which is a shame because the premise was promising. Even the prologue made me eager to read more despite being written in first person present tense, which I generally don’t like.
But when I got to Part 1 of the actual story, everything fell apart in a massive way.
The second sentence is “He’s in town for the funeral” which sets a tone in my mind that this is a somber situation. And that is not born out by what follows next, and I’m not just talking about the insta-lust between Eliot and Robert.
We’re immediately dropped into Eliot’s rambling internal monologue stream-of-consciousness info dump. No real setup of the scene or the location. Just brief mentions of a buffet line and a banquet room and now I have no idea where these characters are. All I know is they’re undressing each other with their eyes.
It’s Eliot’s inner rambling that killed it for me. All the rest of it I could have dealt with. It seriously felt like I was being beaten over the head by the info. I only needed to be told once that Robert was Eliot’s stepfather for a short time, they never lived together, and Eliot never saw Robert as a father figure. Instead, the info was repeated several times.
It got to the point where I just wanted Eliot to shut up. But when I went to skip ahead, I discovered there were no chapter marks in the book. That alone would have taken it down half a star for poor book design.
I skipped ahead to Robert’s point of view and find… more of the exactly the same kind of internal rambling without anything happening to move the plot along. Ugh. What was worse, there was this constant back and forth in the internal monologue. I’ll paraphrase.
This is wrong.
Or is it?
Yeah, definitely wrong.
But he’s so hot, and I want him. How wrong can it be?
Very wrong. Think pure thoughts.
What made me quit for good was Eliot bringing his cheating boyfriend, who has a temper and who Eliot knows he shouldn’t have taken back, with him to his grandmother’s weeklong celebration of life getaway. Eliot admits he’s spineless for tanking his ex back but it’s not his fault, see. He’s southern and has good manners and doesn’t want to rock the boat.
Nope.
On the one hand, I feel really bad because I only got 28 pages into this book. On the other hand, I knew I wouldn’t be able to enjoy any part of this if the beginning got on my nerves this much. Oh well.
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