Review: Unconvincing and irritating.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2012
I quite enjoy this writer's easy to read style. When I want a quick romance with likable characters I will Look up her works. However this one is unconvincing and unappropriate in parts. In the first half of the book I was annoyed with both MCs. Dane should have my sympathy but his doubt about his dead lover irritated me. Donald, his dead lover, has surely proved that Dane was his only love. Just because the older man did not reveal his ex-wife and son, from his past before he met Dane was no excuse for Dane questioning their love. Not if dane reacted negatively towards the ideal of kids, anyway. Donald left everything to Dane in his will and was never unfaithful. So Dane did come across self absorbed and one has to ask how much he did truly love Donald.Even if this is mm romance, I find the two  MCs having sex just 1 month after Donald's death tasteless and unfeeling. Ok so this is the typical  "never forgotten you" romance and this time it was 10 years since they last met as teenagers. Ok, so sex could be an outlet for Dane's grief but where is the respect to his dead lover of 6 years. And let's not even try to analyze Theo's feelings, which is the usual "I found you again and I want you now". Forget the part that Dane has just lost his lover and forget the fact theo never tried to contact the guy for 10 years. The only saving grace is probably nearing the end when Dane decided it was still too early (right, after so many sex scenes). But even that, barely a few days has passed before he changed his mind. At the end what came across was more like Dane grieving for his poor lonely self and not for his dead lover. Maybe I am too harsh. But if you have readAfter Ben (Seattle Stories), you will feel the same about this one.