Review: True love story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
This is the first book I have read by this author and I am already looking for another by Maxfield. It was raw and you can definitely see this happening in real life. It wasn't gay for you, just childhood issues keeping a guy on a certain path until the future comes out of nowhere and smacks him upside the head.I don't normally like a first person story but it works here. Getting an idea of Malloy's thoughts is what helped me understand him and how it wasn't a gay for you story. It was just a reckoning.The love scenes were actually beautiful. It was erotic but not porn. It had substance and meaning without the over description of the mechanics like in most m/m books.It's the down and dirty trashy quick reads that seem to be the norm. Don't get me wrong I enjoy those. But, sometimes you need a real romance, a connection to the characters, especially a romance that you can see happening in real life. That's what you get with this story.These characters were normal, as in there is a fight, a miscommunication and they fix it by talking it out and trying to understand where the other is coming from. Most other books have the miscommunication then someone runs away for a while, there's a lame apology, then it's done. Then the reader is sitting there thinking, yeah that wouldn't really work like that.I guess that's what I like about this book. I wasn't ever pulled out of the story with those thoughts. I was immersed in this story, rooting for the couple. I was happy to see the HEA instead of feeling I was left with questions but no answers.This is a keeper, one I will read again. You shouldn't miss this story. It also only had a couple of errors which is rare in the e-book m/m genre. I think Maxfield might have even used an editor.