Review: Another of Cat Grant's masterpieces
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
DOUBTLESS is another of Cat Grant's masterpieces; it won't let you go easily and one definitely wants to read more about the characters of this book.  For all the people who have read Priceless, it's the long-awaited story of the 3-D optics researcher Steve and his way to finding his own happiness.Steve seems to have a good life; he is successful in his job, has money, a nice house and can work with his best friend. Just that his love life is not as successful but then again it was his fault for not telling said best friend, Connor, that he was in love with him. Also it might not have been his best idea to gift the former mentioned love interest a rentboy as a birthday gift, than again who would have thought Connor would end as a couple with said rentboy?  But Steve is not gay, right!?I thought Steve was an interesting character and I could feel for him, because his life hasn't always been nice and he is clearly lonely, and there are no friends mentioned besides Connor. One of his best dates is with a male escort, Dylan, that he meets in a bar after some unsuccessful attempts at picking up women.  So, one does feel sorry for Steve--unrequited love and his best friend getting married. All his other interactions in his free time are spent with Dylan and Steve pays for his company and that is sad.It was hard to rate this book, not because I didn't like it, because I did! The writing is excellent, the story flows nicely and is interesting, and has balanced dialogues. Even for a short story, it had some character development in it. I liked the characters, one could connect with them and there was no instant love or overuse of sex scenes. All in all, this book had the possibility to be a keeper. Why did I say it's hard to rate?Mostly because it felt like I had a prologue of a story and I was missing the rest and that is not satisfying, especially with no follow up story out there at this time. While left wanting more is nice and a mark of a good book, and again, what there is of this story is really good, with interesting developments and a few surprises but I ended up staring at my ereader in disbelief: Where was the rest?That said, I should warn you this is not a romance per se, as it deals with Steve making peace with his sexuality and dealing with his unrequited love.Reviewed by Lanafor TheRomanceReviews.com