Review: A Greeting Card Gone Astray Is the Best Thing That Happened For Ben and Jason
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
This was an engaging story with a sweet little twist in how the plot is laid out.Ben is a hardworking handyman who enjoys working with his hands, but is no academic scholar.  His boyfriend of eight years, Richard, is an academic scholar and walks out on Ben after making him feel inadequate and promising to return.  Ben is terribly hurt by Richard's departure and decides after a few months that he should try one more time to get him back.  He sends Richard a card for Christmas.  Instead of Richard getting the card, it goes to a man with great academic prowess named Jason Prescott.Jason opens the Ben's card by mistake and can't help but feel for the sender when he reads the outflowing of the man's heart for his lover.  Jason returns the card with a card of his own.  And so their correspondence begins-I thought this heartwarming story was funny and adorable the way these two men with big hearts begin their relationship through these cards they send back and forth.  They may be opposites in some ways, but they fit together well in the ways that count.  I enjoyed the 'its a small world' side to the plot when Jason and Ben discover just how many connections they really have besides the cards when the plot got good.  The story can seem choppy the way it depends on vignettes from both of their lives around the receipt of a card that can skip months, weeks and days as it moves forward, but it also has a gentle flow to it as the relationship between Ben and Jason takes its time.  I didn't find that these things made it difficult to read.  In fact, I liked it.This would be a good read for anyone who enjoys a relationship-based m/m contemporary romance that is both fun and light.