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Conrad Muller’s heart is the center of a web of friendships, fights, and love lost and found in a close-knit group of gay men in Orange County, California. Six months ago, Conrad died, and his organs were donated for transplant. A month later, Conrad’s lover, Christian, receives a letter from the recipient of Conrad’s donated heart.Christian can’t stop thinking about the letter, and he’s not the only one affected by loss. Conrad’s best friend Eban is also brokenhearted, and he’s struggling with his lover Damien, who has always resented living in Conrad’s shadow. Though Conrad is gone, his friends and his lover will have to cope with their grief to move on and find new love. ;
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Bastards. Three of the main characters are absolute bastards. Let me backtrack briefly and say I am a fan of Scarlet Blackwell. She writes intense characters who exhibit characteristics more achingly human than any author I've known. Her heroes are never 1 dimensional good guys. That being said, Eban and Christian, despite the pain and heartache they suffer (in my opinion) are not redeemable in this story. I started skimming through it after page 149. I was so terribly angry with Eban and Christan that 'my' heart started to hurt.I just couldn't believe the pain they inflicted on people unnecessarily. I think the story, while well-crafted and superbly written, drags on with the angst for much too long. I could excuse the words hurled at one character from another but when these guys start jumping in bed with any and nearly everybody--who all happen to be hot--I couldn't excuse that. No matter how upset, or drunk they still knew what they were doing. Also, there were way too many accidents/robberies/shootings in a short period of time to be believable. I started to think these guys were living in the most dangerous city on Earth.So while I did not like half the characters AT ALL I can still appreciate good writing and well-rounded characters. -
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Bastards. Three of the main characters are absolute bastards. Let me backtrack briefly and say I am a fan of Scarlet Blackwell. She writes intense characters who exhibit characteristics more achingly human than any author I've known. Her heroes are never 1 dimensional good guys. That being said, Eban and Christian, despite the pain and heartache they suffer (in my opinion) are not redeemable in this story. I started skimming through it after page 149. I was so terribly angry with Eban and Christan that 'my' heart started to hurt.I just couldn't believe the pain they inflicted on people unnecessarily. I think the story, while well-crafted and superbly written, drags on with the angst for much too long. I could excuse the words hurled at one character from another but when these guys start jumping in bed with any and nearly everybody--who all happen to be hot--I couldn't excuse that. No matter how upset, or drunk they still knew what they were doing. Also, there were way too many accidents/robberies/shootings in a short period of time to be believable. I started to think these guys were living in the most dangerous city on Earth.So while I did not like half the characters AT ALL I can still appreciate good writing and well-rounded characters. -
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Dreamspinner Press
- Publication Date March 2011
- Orginal Language English
- ISBN/Identifier 9781615818211
- Primary Price 6.99 USD
- Pages350
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusOut-Of-Copyright
- Reference Codecom.dreamspinnerpress.onix.978-1-61581-821-1
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