Review: They were friends and colleagues - then one night there was a desk, some toys and then fireworks!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
Rhone is a man's man. Big, muscular and has an active love life with the ladies.  He meets Adam when Adam picks is pocket, unsuccessfully.  Adam is young and was thrown out of home for being gay.  He doesn't disclose that to Rhone.  For whatever reason, and highly unlikely as it may be, Rhone invites Adam to work for him and his brother in their security/PI business.  Hmm, suspended disbelief needed.  Adam accepts and starts work for them.  There is little detail around him starting the job and finding a place to live quite frankly, that could have been fleshed out to give some detail rather than a helicopter view of things. So then we move on to Rhone taking Adam home to live with him temporarily because apparently he was living in a roach motel and Rhone didn't want to have to identify his body when it all went pear shaped in the place.  The living arrangement turns into years.  Adam matures, Rhone dates women and brings them home to love them up.  Adam listens to this through the walls and then pleasures himself thinking of Rhone and Rhone never has a clue.  They work together, they live together, they spend time together and are firmly attached.  The firm grows and Adam is taken in as a partner.  After a double date where Rhone brings his one home Adam moves out because he needs step back from the non-relationship.  It is really annoying that Rhone is so clueless and Adam is so devoted but makes no move.I have read this a couple of times and feel the writing is lacking.  I don't feel engaged with the characters at all, they don't seem to exist beyond the flat word on the page.  Where is the depth?  Where is the relationship building over the years and years and years?  It is a short book that touches on what should be there without delivering. And for a man who cannot make a move on the love of his life how can we end up with him over the desk with his female colleague servicing him with toys?  I do not get that at all.  It had potential, and started off well.  More character development is certainly needed here, such a shame.  It is an ok read.