Review: Where you least expect it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2011
I read this book because first time M/M is one of my favorite tropes. This was descent but not exceptional. I liked the characters of Matt and Christian. They were both very likeable characters with their own quirks and I'm always a fan of military veteran characters (although it didn't seem like Durango did very much research as to what Matt would and would not have been exposed to during his stint in the army at his position and doesn't even really flesh out what his hang up actually was past extent that he saw bad things that gave him nightmares. I don't even think we ever find out his rank or how long he served. We find out much more about Christian, who is a senior year, double major in lit and history). Matt is a very sweet ex-Army computer tech who has been burned in the past buy his relationships with women. He literally has a run in with Christian and it's off and running from there. Admittedly, I'm not an expert but it seemed unrealistic how willing a previously straight guy was to sexual relationship with another guy. Also, from first meeting their interactions where completely repetitive: the same exact sex act in the exact same order with the exact same phrases. It gets kind of old about 60% of the way through the book. I was not surprised to find out this was Durango's first effort. But I do think there is a lot of potential there and would love to read any further efforts.