Mad Passion

However, all of the characters sound the same. Aside from the text telling you which character is speaking, there are no differences in the characters' speech.

The story is interesting enough. The characters' speech needs work.

Horribly written book jumps around too much really bad - sorry to say but they do have English classes and also EDITORS, that way you don't sound like this. I stopped reading after page 5, it was that bad

Where is the intensity? ~~ The novel starts off with a good eye-catching premise for the reader. A widower is first offended and then struggles with conflicted sexuality when encountering a gay buff handyman. The reader could have been alerted to the background of the central character earlier in the plot. That could have been a jumping off point for episodes of hot attraction and sexual feeling toward Joe that Travis struggles to suppress and sublimate. In the end, love and lust could win out in a frenzy and flight of hot sparks and torrid kink instead of the step-by-step plain vanilla activity the author dishes out for the reader.

The plot here is more realistic, but good story telling entails a larger-than-life experience to keep the reader turning pages in anticipation of emotion and physical contact writ large. Compelling romance can combine a quality of a "dirty book" with developed, interesting, and deep characters. For free, I suppose this read was satisfactory entertainment.

I rarely regret reading a book, but I regret this one. I almost stopped reading entirely, but have an insatiable need to finish my books. Unfortunately, although the book didn't have misspelled words, it was so poorly developed that it was tough to get through. Most of the dialogue was awkward and stiff, but on a couple of occasions it was almost believable. The situations were laughable. Who grows up in and around the streets of any city and isn't aware of the technicalities of sex, much less one who had to have gone to college in order to have the position of bank manager? Discrimination based on sexual preference is a crime and really, who would let that pass in this day and age? I would like to encourage the author to work more on conversational fluidity and story development. Throwing in some rigorous character development would also help quite a bit. Sorry, I would recommend a major overhaul on this one