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review 2015-11-24 00:00

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed Adam and Peter's story!

It's an out-for-you, established couple story - which by the way isn't exactly my favorite trope. BUT, this one had a very interesting approach. In the beginning, all we know is that there was one big coming out, as in for the WHOLE world to see, and a very dramatic event, that brought both of these guys to their senses.

I loved all the little touches and details that made this story so good. A word here, a tear there, some mystery until the very end - it all worked for me. Especially because it wasn't predictable. There isn't this "big bad misunderstanding" that tore the two lovers apart. It's more complicated and also a lot easier than that at the same time. Very good, very heart-warming und definitely a recommendation to everyone who loves to read about couples clearing the air, surviving a big bump in the road and coming out on the other end, united and stronger than ever.

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review 2014-10-04 18:11

Dead men and the army of frogs. Gotta love that title.

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Dead Man and the Army of Frogs (Volume 2) - Lou Harper

First I have to say this can be read as a standalone I didn't read the first book in this series and it wasn't a problem at all to follow along, although now that I've read this one, I feel the urge to go back and read book 1.

Bran and Denton are navigating a lot of things in this book. It's divided in to shorter stories that are connected and flow in to each other.
Now, I have a thing for men in kilts *drools* and I have a huge thing for Gerard Butler.
This book has men in kilts...
“It looks like a skirt to me." Denton eagerly clarified the situation. "Nah, it only would be a skirt if I wore underpants.”

These two are nothing alike, but maybe that's why it works. Bran and Denton have some unresolved issues, jealousy, kilts and not to mention the army of frogs.
I enjoyed the stories, mysteries and the relationship between them. I've discovered a new series for me and I think this book has one of my favorite quotes ever in a book : “I bet Gerard Butler in a kilt is ten times sexier than Gerard Butler naked.”

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review 2014-03-18 14:46

For You ( but not for me)

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2.75*

When I first read this blurb I thought it would be a very emotional story. Two men in love and committed to each other but torn by irreconcilable differences.
I was also hoping for some major groveling, because I am a huge fan of a good grovel.

It's told in flashbacks between four years prior and two years prior, one year prior and present day.
So we start the story pretty much at the end of their relationship and see how it slowly disintegrated.
We get both Jeremy's and Graham's POV, which I always like. It helps me understand both of these men and I could see they were both really suffering because of the end of their relationship.
Graham is out and has been since he was a teen, but Jeremy isn't and really doesn't see anyway he can be. He fears for his job, his family's reaction and other consequences.
It causes more and more friction between the men, despite them being very much in love.
“Graham had never thought he’d find the man he was destined to spend the rest of his life with, but he had and he couldn’t be happier. He quickly pushed the dissatisfaction that Jeremy wouldn’t come out of the closet to the back of his mind, something he did every time the thought crept up on him.”

I felt for both men, I completely understood Graham, he couldn't keep pretending Jeremy is nothing more than a friend and Jeremy refuses to even talk about why he isn't going to change the situation. I also felt for Jeremy, he's afraid, he won't even think about the possibility of coming out, he's almost paralyzed by the fear of the unknown consequences.
“He loved Jeremy more than anything, but how were they to live happily together if the only place they could be themselves was behind closed doors?”

Unfortunately the way the story was told, with the flashbacks and the somewhat formal language, the lack of contractions (“I have something I need to tell you, and it cannot wait.” “He’d taken a taxi over so his car would not give away he was here.”)kept me at a distance.
Also the couple was apart for most of the story, suffering and bemoaning the loss of the other but again I just didn't feel as much as I had been hoping to. Then the resolution was actually a little anticlimactic and there was no groveling, all that left me feeling a little let down.

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review 2014-01-05 19:22

Loved it

Mandy, I read obsessively

4.25*

I'm so ridiculous, seriously. I loved Carol of the Bellskis and read it in the fall of 2011 and I waited all this time to read the sequel? What is wrong with me? *please don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question and we don't really have time to compile that list*

Astrid Amara has never disappointed me, every single one of her stories was funny, fun, entertaining, sweet and original and Seth and Lars are as awesome in this book as they were in book one. ( if anything Lars is even better.)
Seth's family is a hoot and I loved seeing Lars and Seth as an out and proud and committed couple!
So, you know, don't make the same mistake I did. Read it. And if you haven't read book one, do that now and then this one...
Really, go do it.

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