Review: Love regardless of gender
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2012
Rafe is a PI and Jeremy is a bike cop he met briefly at a court hearing several weeks ago. Jeremy gets wind of some goings-on near his dad's (and his former) home that involve a family he grew up around so he contacts Rafe (whom he's heard good things about as far as professionalism and work ethics etc.) to see if he can help the family. It turns out that the 17 year old daughter has vanished and the parents (well, the father) thinks she was kidnapped with by her boyfriend or by people associated with the boyfriend.Several twists and turns ensue and the case takes surprising turns. But, along with the case, we get the story that unravels between Rafe and Jeremy. Jeremy has not had many satisfactory relationships with women and he's quite happy being alone and not having to endure any more of his married sister's attempts at set-ups. Rafe's parents cannot get their pea brains around their son being gay and are hoping that it's a phase so they are also trying to set him up with women because he couldn't possibly ever be happy with a man and no hopes for a full and rich life with the whole white picket fence and 2.5 kids, could he. Because we all know that you can only have those if you're a straight couple, right?! LOLWhile Rafe knows from early on that he's got a huge magnetic attraction to Jeremy (attraction, I said) and keeps telling his long suffering best friend about everything that's happening poor Jeremy doesn't understand what his growing feelings could possibly say about him. I, once again, loved that this was a story that involved someone who could see past gender and see the person, regardless of what others would think of him and his loving another person of the same gender. Jeremy fell in love with the person and not the genitalia attached to the person. And he was open to the possibility of loving Rafe, the man. Wow, what a hero? No, what a reasonable and open minded human being. And, for that, I loved the character of Jeremy and I liked Rafe even though he seemed like he was at a loss and a bit of a weak person simply because he just couldn't stop falling back to his ex, Mark. I felt bad for Mark because he obviously still carried a lot of feelings for Rafe and Rafe kept abusing that power that he held over Mark's heart. Rafe was weak and a bit of a user (esp. when alcohol and Mark were involved). Regardless, I liked the story. I didn't like the way it ended for Yesenia.