Review: This review is for the full series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
This review is for the full, 3 book series.  I would recommend that you read all three or you will not understand the full character and relationship development.  The author does an excellent job of portraying the abuse that those in power can inflict on the powerless.  Although this is a romance and love story, I felt that the romance aspect of this was the weakest point in the book.  The author develops the main character, Abel, very well.  Life has dealt him a terrible hand and he has acted accordingly.  You can feel and understand why he is where he is at this point in his life. The side characters at the club where Abel works are also well done and you definitely get a sense of the community and camraderie that the men in the club have with each other.  However, there were two big problems with the series: first, I did not understand the romance because the love between the two H/H was not really developed.  They meet in the ER as doctor and patient and the attraction is instantaneous.  I get that, but the author failed to convince me why that attraction turned into love.  Second, there were some factual errors in the book that, while they don't take away from the story, are something that I noticed.  THIS IS A SPOILER SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, PLEASE DON'T READ FURTHER. Hospital protocols in the United States dictate that when a person is diagnosed with HIV, they must be put on treatment even if they do not have the ability to pay.  It is an ethical and moral obligation. You cannot just treat opportunistic infections, you must start anti-retroviral therapy immediately as soon as you have confirmatory results of HIV.  Second, the ER doctor is only 25 years old.  That is not really possible unless he is Doogie Howser.  Most medical students are about 26 years old when they graduate from medical school so even a 1st year intern would at minimum, have to be 26 to be an intern in the ER and usually older as ERs will not take inexperienced interns.  Third, and this is a really big deal:  Abel is referred to as boy throughout the book.  I feel that given his life circumstances, this is very inappropriate, demeaning, degrading and maintains an imbalance of power between him and the other hero.  Yes, he's quite young and would still be considered a boy in many areas, but this story is about a love relationship between two men.  He is not a child especially given what he has been through in the story.  To call him a boy throughout the series is an insult.I recommend that you read the stories.  They are well worth staying up until 2 am to read, as I did.  The author has a promising career.  She just needs to do more research on her background material.  Oh and a final note to the author:  the word is MOOT, not MUTE.  The point is MOOT, not MUTE.