Review: The making of a Dom with a heart of gold
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2013
4.5 stars review and awesome character interviewShh Mom's Reading*Please note this book can be read Stand Alone or as part of her Stewart series.Mutual Release the latest release from author Liz Crowe and is a wonderful well written story.Mutual Release tells the story of Evan Adams and Julie Dawson. Ms Crow provides these two characters with well developed backstories that are told in vivid detail to the reader, allowing them to see how deeply these two souls have been wounded by events and circumstances of their lives prior to meeting each other.Mutual Release starts by the telling of Evan's story.  This first part of the book was really really well done!! Evan's experience with the death of someone close to him was very powerful and will touch you deeply, yes have tissues near by.  My heart broke for Evan and the use of this incident to craft the more adult Evan was character development at it finest.  I truly felt Evan's conflict, his pain, his desires, his torment, and his personal journey to find himself.  I throughly enjoyed the construction of Evan, the Dom.Evan does not take entering the lifestyle easy, he struggles with what it means, he struggles to find his own acceptance of his needs and a balance that works for him.  I adored Evan as a switch learning and interacting with two Dommes.  These scenes for me were some of the hotness and most telling in the book.I also really like how Evan's good friend Jack Gordon was not judgmental, it truly felt real to the Jack Ms. Crowe created in the prior books (again you do not need to have read those books for this friendship to touch your heart).  Jack's lack of judgement was true to the Jack  developed and bonds their friendship at a deeper level.When Evan and Julie meet you can feel the chemistry.  The banter these two engage in put a smile on my face and their email exchanges early on were both fun and felt true for two professionally focused and driven individuals.As Evan pursues Julie you will fall in love with him all over again, Evan knows what he wants and is determined to show Julie what he can offer her.Evan and Julie opening up to each other will pull at your heart strings and have to rooting for them to find a way to be what the other needs.Ms Crowe built a wonderful and pivotal secondary character in Damien.  The nature of his dark soul plays into keys scenes and events in this story. Evil affects those around it and Damien's character became a contrast to the love around him.When the evil that has surrounds Evan returns with a vengeance, will love survive?Well, No I am not going to tell you. You are going to have to read Mutual Release to find out!The epilogue to this book was heart warming, it brings the family full circle and provides the reader with huge range of emotions in just a few pages; it was truly masterful and will leave fans of the series wanting Good Faith the next book in the series. And will leave those new to series likely wanting to pick up more Liz Crowe.If you are reader who chose to read this book as a stand alone, I think it is a wonderful introduction to Ms Crowe's work.Though be warned you will likely be one-clicking Floor Time, Sweat Equiry and Closing Costs to get an inside view of Jack Gordon and Sara's story.