The King's Mate
by:
Ashavan Doyon (author)
Russell Pine goes to the café every morning to enjoy his time chatting with Sam Tesh, the café owner, a friend made over the past twenty years. So when Sam asks a favor, Russ reluctantly agrees to play in a chess tournament. But the contest isn’t the real challenge: Russ finds himself the focus...
show more
Russell Pine goes to the café every morning to enjoy his time chatting with Sam Tesh, the café owner, a friend made over the past twenty years. So when Sam asks a favor, Russ reluctantly agrees to play in a chess tournament. But the contest isn’t the real challenge: Russ finds himself the focus of a secret courtship in words and pictures left for him to discover each morning, leading him to the question: In a café full of young and beautiful minds, who is looking at the graying chessmaster?A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2013 Daily Dose package "Make a Play".
show less
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781623808334 (1623808332)
Publish date: June 1st 2013
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Series: 2013 Daily Dose: Make a Play
I liked the concept but hated certain parts of the story because of how the author chose to convey the voices of the MC's. I didn't like that characters were stuttering or stumbling over what they wanted to say to each other. Yes, both the MC's were shy and somewhat nervous around each other but the...
This was a 3.5 star read for me. I liked the story and was moving to really like it but my full enjoyment was prevented due some of the writing style. The use of half-finished sentences was totally overdone and frustrating to read. I just wanted the characters (primarily Justin) to spit it out and f...
Achy, sweet, trepidacious love.Sam's coffee shop is feeling an economic pinch and in an effort to increase sales he convinces his friend Russ to take part in a chess tournament--winner gets free coffee for the year. Russ has an admirer at the coffee shop who leaves him beautiful notes. Discerning wh...
Maybe 3*...I liked the idea behind this story. Russ and his backstory are a bit secretive in the beginning but when his friend and owner of the café he has coffee at every morning asks him for a favor, he does it.He starts getting secret notes from an admirer. It's cleared up pretty quickly who the ...
I enjoyed this story, but would have enjoyed more of a build up to the I love yous...
Log in with Facebook 
