Review: A nice story with a happy ending
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
This is a nice story, perhaps slightly predictable but nice all the same.The story revolves around Louis starting work as the nanny for a divorced couple. Crissi and Dan have two young children but finally divorced when Dan realised he couldn't deny he was gay anymore.Dan and Louis are very different, with very different backgrounds and very different sexual experience but are attracted to one another. Afterinitially trying to keep their distance and maintain their employee/employee relationship, they finally give in and commence a relationship.It was actually easy to imagine these men together and they really did work as both a couple and a 'family' together with the children. Dan and the kids give Louis a focus in his life and Louis gives Dan something that was missing in his relationship with his wife (good sex!)."But experiencing the whole package - friend, partner, passionate lover who aroused him effortlessly - was a new experience."Louis is much more experienced but he truly sees something special in Dan. "Louis had a history with men. A lot of men. He'd dated them, slept with them, used them, been used by them. He'd had short term relationship and longer ones, mild flirtations and passionate affairs.....But this near obsession with Dan was not something he'd experienced before. He wanted more of Dan, much more." And it was easy to believe that it wasn't the money.After a wonderful period of time together, Dan and Louis have to face the consequences of both their relationship and also secrets from Louis past. There were a couple of things that surprised me here. Firstly, Crissi (Dan's ex-wife) is a lovely character and her response to finding out the news was unexpected. It would have been easy to over-dramatise her reaction but it is very realistic and you can't help admiring her. Secondly, Dan's reaction to Louis' past. I expected a huge issue to appear between Louis and Dan but this didn't happen. Everything was resolved rather simply. Maybe a bit more drama would have been better?What was done really well was the children, particularly Cara, the five year old. Appropriate behaviour, appropriate dialogue, appropriate parental/nanny response.Overall, a nice enjoyable story with a happy ending!