Review: Not an easy book to love but I ended up loving it anyway - POSSIBLE SPOILERS BEWARE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
SPOILERS IN THE REVIEW BEWARE!!!Wow, talk about wierd reading experience. 20% into reading the book I was ready to abandon it but I enjoyed everything I read by this writer in the past so I forced myself to continue and I am very glad that I did. So why did I want to DNF the book? Not because the book is a menage and not because Adam and Keith have an open relationship, while I am a tough sell on the menage books, I certainly read several great ones and enjoyed them a great deal, and couple in open relationship bothers me even less (like not at all). It has to be well written of course, but I want everything in the books I read to be well written obviously.  So why was I ready to abandon the book? Simply put I did not like how their relationship started, it was a bit too manipulative for my taste (nothing not consensual, do not worry, but any kind of manipulation hits my hot buttons) on Adam's and Keith's behalf and I just felt that the total balance of power was off in their favor simply by them being stars and Sebastian being a star crushed twenty one year old. But my goodness as the book went on, I loved the exploration of who the characters were. I will admit that I still loved Adam and Keith together more than I liked them plus Sebastian. I have to give major kudos to the author for portraying a character who lives with bipolar disorder. I do not know what it means to live with mental illness, but it just felt so very believable and painful and still I had no doubt that those two are deeply in love. And I liked that it does not dissappear at the end of the story (obviously because it does not dissappear in life and person just has to go on living), even if the man decides to take steps to take treatment for it.But I ended up at least believing that their relationship at the very least MAY work and I think that this is what the ending was about. It certainly does not promise happily ever after for three of them right away, but it offers hopeful HFN and I had no doubt that Adam and Keith at least would continue to be together for a long time.Definitely recommendedEDITED: I forgot to mention that yes, there is an accident closer to the end of the book which could be interpreted as dub con, but you have to read the story to see it for what it was. I really cannot say more for the fear of major spoilers.