Review: Really good sequel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2011
Head's up: there's one small, tangential spoiler near the end.I was really pleased with this sequel. Our boys, Max and Hunter, are back, and this time they're getting married. This was a much longer book than the previous one, and it was much more well-rounded. There were plenty of obstacles for them to go along with all the inner turmoil and angst. There was also some really good character development that went on. This was a way more substantial book, so be prepared for a LOT more to happen. It was still written in present tense like the first book, which was very distracting for me though. It was also a bit too perfect a 'happily ever after' ending. Max's father was strongly anti-gay and against them getting married. He completely comes around by the end of the story without much actual explanation.I do have to say there was one thing that bothered me about the writing that may totally be me. I work with language for a living, so I get really distracted by improper usage. This happened once in Davis' previous book in this series, but I dismissed it as an editorial oversight, but the exact same thing happened again in this book as well as another similar error. The error that was repeated was the use of the word "break" instead of "brake." In each book she said something to the effect of "things were moving too fast, and we had to put on the breaks." Each time it yanked me right out of the story. The single occurrence from this book was using "tact" instead of "tack" to mean a change of direction. Something like, "this didn't seem to be working, so I decided to take a different tact." Again, these are small things that might not bother anyone else, but they speak to either a lousy (or non-existent) copy editor, or someone words without knowing what those words mean. Either of those seem to be things Davis should try to address.I'm not going to let minor things that really are my baggage keep me from giving this book a good rating, though. I've seen FAR worse editing or writing from very successful m/m writers (and given those books scathing reviews), and these problems were insignificant in the bigger picture.PS - Thanks to Tracy for the spelling catch!