Why is it that good stories finish so fast? This one just flashed by me, in all its beautiful and sensual happiness. The boys were adorable, and just the right amount of emotional morons to stimulate all my OH FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE MAN JUST KISS HIM. And such things. You know.

This is a story full of sex, tender and loving, and it is explicit to the umpteenth degree. As this author has showed us before, it is quite possible to write full-on porn without ever ending up lewd and disgusting. It is simply making love. In many, many ways, in many, many positions.

Of course, add to all that, they are training for a Mud Race. Well, you get the picture. The boys are sweaty and muddy most of the time.

It is glorious.

They even finally talk it out. About relationships and things. Amazing. How about them apples, eh?

I also love that this is a story that also has a bisexual character, and LGBT-characters who walk around in life with a personal weight of internalized homophobia. Growing up in homophobic homes can really trouble your mind.

There is real and true mental growing-up happening in this story.

It’s really beautiful.

Happy reading everyone.

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I was given a free copy of this book from the publisher, Dreamspinner Press, and a positive review wasn’t promised in return.

I am shattered by this book, and so happy I got to read it.

The first half was thrilling, loving, mindblowing, and so gorgeously confusing!

Then all the pieces are slowly worked together into a whole tapestry of interwoven lives, all seen through the wild and amazing eyes of a young girl.

Absolutely mesmerizing, and smashing language to boot.

There is so much love in here that it almost flows off the pages, oh how I love to read about great-grandfathers who have made a difference. Here, storytelling has a way of taking wings and flying into your dreams at night. Here, fantasy becomes imagination, and then dreams happen, that go on to become reality. Or not.

Of course, you need to love family, and be the kind of reader who doesn’t get upset when she squeals in joy or gushes forth in amazing amounts of tears. Because there was plentiful of both.

This book is going to stay with me for a long time.

There is hope and emotions and happiness and sadness and bisexuality and love and understanding and… Great-Grand Fathers!

Well. Go read it, eh?

Because I find myself crying again, as I’m writing this review.

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A copy of this book was given to me by the publisher, Dreamspinner Press. A positive review was not promised in exchange.