Review: Quick, Easy, Sexy Readng About Second Chances
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
Grady and Mateo have known each other since they were young. Mateo’s  aunt and uncle raised him (barely) with Grady’s family being more like Mateo’s family than his own. Growing up, they shared many an occasion at Grady’s parent’s lake house.'They’d been coming out to the lake since they’d met in first grade. All through school they’d spent their weekends there…'Now, Grady and Mateo are at college and it focuses for a short while on their relationship there. They are friends but they sometimes jerk off together in their room, nothing more. It’s only self-pleasuring, it isn’t a problem, right? Grady dates girls and for all appearances is ‘straight.’ But the jerking off builds to something more, a night together that Mateo wants to progress even further and Grady freaks out about and walks out on after.“What if I want something more than what we’ve been doing?” His gaze narrowed in on Grady again. “What if I think you do too?”Suddenly Grady couldn’t swallow. Breathing normally was also getting pretty tricky.Skip ahead six years, Grady has been married, twice, and is living at the lake house that was the scene of his last time with Mateo. He has now allowed himself to come to the realisation that no one has meant to him what Mateo did, and he let that go. Grady puts a public Facebook status up stating that he wants to find Mateo, be with Mateo. When nothing comes from the Facebook status, Grady decides to add a craigslist message for Mateo, letting him know how he feels – that he wants to meet up with Mateo and give all of himself to him in the most emotional and intimate ways. They do see each other across a pride parade, but Mateo takes off. However, Grady creates an opportunity to follow Mateo to see if he can explain to him why he wasn’t ready then. That he is ready now, has been for a while, and he’s never been with another guy. Mateo has some secrets that haunt him and once Grady  sees the scars he pushes him bit by bit to open up to him. But Mateo is angry and guarded. Grady glimpses the old Mateo in there too. It is a matter of whether Grady can convince Mateo he is genuine and if Mateo can let him in again.Overall:This is a quick and easy read about two men who missed their original connection and came together six years later to find it. About one person swearing to the other that they mean it this time and they now know who they are, and the other learning to trust that. If you like second chances, some sexy times, with a bit of drama added to your MM reading, then Missed Connections: I Swear to You is a nice, romantica MM that you can curl up with on the weekend for a few hours.Review also at On Top Down Under Book Reviews