Review: I Disagree; This Story Is Definitely A "Romance."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2012
Let me start with a quote from Wiki:"Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person."I have to say that the story seemed very much about love to me.  Albeit, not the typical, fall in love and walk off into the sunset holding hands type, but about love none the less.The whole plot was to show how two best buds learn to survive in a world full of hardships; and eventually turn their friendship, and brotherly type love, into something deeper and on a whole other plane.In the story they are two survivor's struggling `against all odds' on the road to adulthood.  On the way, they learn about life and its trials and tribulations.  They find that the road to happiness isn't always going to go the way you want it to, but if you look deep enough inside yourself, sometimes, it gets you where you need to be. ...Oh. . . Didn't some one put that into a song???  ;)  LOLOn a more serious note, the fact that both men were victims of hellish child abuse was probably the most severe obstacle they had to overcome and come to terms with. The author's descriptions of what each man went through while growing up rocked me to my core.  But, I understand why the author wrote the story that way.  It was the catalyst for their sexual deviations.In conclusion, I went into reading this story because I thoroughly enjoyed "Packing Heat."  The love scenes in that story were intense, so I thought I'd try another of her books.  I enjoyed her Eden story as well, but for entirely different reasons.  The characters were deep and personable.  Granted, the love scenes(with lots of S/M and other related stuff) were also hot, but I enjoyed the development of the characters more.  Now I have to read "Beyond Eden" 'cause their lives were so darned hard in this story that I have to see them "make it" in life in "Beyond Eden."Life was so hard, they didn't even have a floor in their house for crying out loud!!  Sheeesh!  LOL