Review: Another Kade Boehme Winner!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
Though this one is a little bit darker than his other books, it still has that assured and elegant structure, writing and pacing that I've come to admire so much. Mr. Boehme is turning out to be a really fine writer."Don't Trust The Cut" is the tale of Jesse and Tucker (Tuck). Jesse is a young man of 30 who has just retired from the Marines - way before his time, but he was discharged for the wounds he took in combat. Tucker is a somewhat strange, but gentle, soul who is polite and personable to most of the world, but alive and fully present only to Alison, his best friend and roommate.The book starts with the two men meeting each other at a party to celebrate their return to Baltimore - Jesse from the Marines and the hospital, Tucker from his mysterious sojourn in "Canada:".I don't want to give away any spoilers, so I won't go into too much detail, but Jesse has a girlfriend, a woman he's dated for six years who, in reality, is his "beard" to immunize him from Don't Ask Don't Tell. Tucker, although extraordinarily nice and caring, seems to be holding himself together with paper clips and baling wire.The plot follows Jesse as he comes out, and Tucker as he tries to deal - and their start-and-stop attempts at finding love with each other. There is plenty of M/M Romance angst to go around. The coming out, though realistic, is often painful. Tucker's scars, both physical and emotional are just as difficult to cope with.There is, of course, a HEA, so you know they do manage to get there. But not without navigating some rather severe bumps along the journey, with a lot to be said for the serious way in which Mr. Boehme handles the mental-health issues - which he does well.And I had to admit that the ending of the book, corny though it is, still left me with a tear in my eye.And that's exactly what I'm looking for in an M/M Romance novel. So, if, like me, you're looking for some gentle, beautiful characters navigating the rocky path to love in a well-written book, I recommend this one to you with all my heart.P.S. Some reviewers mentioned terrible editing. I am the scourge of the badly-edited book, and it's my thing to rant and rave about authors who don't much care that they insult their readers by publishing what is, essentially, a draft. So, believe me, if the editing were bad, I'd let you know, and if it's good, I wouldn't have missed that either, because I'm always wary of bad grammar, misspelling, apostrophes in plurals, wrong tenses and the like.I am pleased to let you know that I only found one minor typo ( a word cut off ) in the entire book. This was a superbly edited book. It's entirely possible that it was re-released after some additional editing, but the version I read was a pleasure to read and was as clean as any best-seller from any major publishing house.