Review: Passionate or comfortable loving?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
Excellent first story about two guys who love each other passionately: Quinn and Lorcan, both cowboys.  My title is the crux of the decision for Lorcan.  He owes Quinn so much and loves him so completely, but Quinn can't get around his own inhibitions easily.  Eventually, Lorcan has another option: Jess and sex and comfort without passion.  I saw this choice coming early on, and I suspected what Lorcan would ultimately choose.  I'm glad the author even gave Lorcan a complete option when Quinn shared everything in his apology and begged Lorcan to take him back.I think Lorcan made the wrong choice and for the wrong reasons, but I certainly understand why he did it.  I'm not sure it would have been possible for him to choose otherwise, even knowing everything Quinn felt for him.  Both men had deep flaws to deal with, Quinn's fear, pride  and hurt, Lorcan's "vile temper," as my mother would put it.  And personally, in light of each one's temperament, I can't see how the author can credibly reverse Lorcan's choice in the two more novels to come in this series, though I have to think that is a possible outcome.  I think Quinn and Lorcan are both going to change so much as a result of Lorcan's choice that they cannot go back to whom either of them was.  In addition, I suspect that Quinn's changes in the future novels (because of his pride and his own hurt) will change him too much to do what he would have to do, but we will have to see.  And I admit, I liked the characters (flawed as they both were) enough that I want to see what happens to them in the next two novels.The best novels (including "romance" novels, like this one) involve credible conflict between the primary characters, and this one had it in spades.  It also had some good yet well done sex scenes, but the main thrust of the storyline is the romance.  Four stars not enough, five too many, but four and a half about right.  If well-written romance is what you're after, go for it.