Review: So Awesome
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
'Cold Snap' is the first book in Lee Brazil's 'In From The Cold' series which is a part of the fabulous Pulp Friction 2014 by four incredible authors. Once again I will state that each series can be read as a stand alone, but the reader really gets a better enjoyment, in my honest opinion, if they're read in the order they are written. For this year's Pulp Friction the order is Laura Harner, Lee Brazil, Havan Fellows and T.A. Webb. If you missed Laura Harner's 'Firestorm' you might want to read it as it provides background and it sets the stage, so to speak. Now on to Lee Brazil's wonderful installment which reunited me with a character from Pulp Friction 2013, Dr. Cannon Malloy.Cannon was not prepared, coming from Atlanta of all things, for a winter blizzard in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is miserably out of his element, his beautiful '66 Shelby is buried under snow, and he is freezing to death when he meets the gorgeous professor of literature, Dagfinnr (Finn) Lorensson, who is also, unbeknownst to Cannon at the time, his neighbor at Mountain Shadows, the resort where Cannon is leasing a cabin. Finn invites him to stay at the same hotel he is staying at as the roads home are impassable, and one thing leads to another, resulting in a night of hot, unbridled passion between the two. Cannon's time in Arizona is meant to be his opportunity to really come out of hiding as a proud, gay man. Unfortunately for him, he is still suffering anxiety and panic over his ordeal in Atlanta, and this makes him terrified and paranoid at times. So, of course, he wakes the morning after and runs."Clenching the hand in a tight fist, he snorted, then chuckled darkly in the dim room. Atlanta's finest neurosurgeon, taking a job in a teaching hospital for a semester? Outrageous, his colleagues declared. His superiors had been outraged, he'd just received a promotion that most of his peers would have killed for.If he'd gone back into an operating room, death would have been inevitable. The surgeon's hands that had saved lives, the hands that had crafted a career he'd sacrificed genuine love for, had failed him.So he ran.And he was going to keep right the f$&@ on running."Finn has been waiting for Cannon. Ever since they spoke on the phone with Finn as acting manager of Mountain Shadows until the new owner, Scott, arrived, Finn has been having fantasies about the vulnerable and sexy sounding man. For those of you who read the author's 'Chances Are' series you're probably thinking "Cannon? Vulnerable?" But, he was vulnerable and a little shy under the image he's perfected over the years. Every sound makes him jump these days and he's scared that someone is stalking him. My heart broke just a little bit for this man whom I hadn't liked for a long time but now I saw in a different light.Oh Lee, you have got my curiosity raging now for more of Finn and Cannon. I want to see where they are going to go and whether Finn's thoughts and dreams about a relationship will come true. I'm also deathly curious about their other neighbor, the very mysterious conspiracy theorist, Rowen Smithe. Sigh. I don't know yet whether Havan Fellows or Tom Webb will have his story but I'm dying to read more. More of Scott and Robby. More of Finn and Cannon. More of Mountain Shadows and its fascinating residents. Watch out, Lee, I'll be stalking you, too, for more of these fabulous men.