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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Simon
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Let me keep this short. Great story, well written, decent length and read.
Sex is graphic and superfluous, but I've become used to it in this genre, and it's easy to skip without losing the plot. I'm starting to believe that the editors add the overly long sex paragraphs as they think this is what gay men want?? Perhaps I'm odd in the fact that they're not needed to progress the story and although it's nice occasionally, I'd prefer it were left to my imagination.
Story is basically sound. Ex Olympian, bashes brain in practice dive, sees stars and from then on, everyone else's mood, in the form of coloured auras (although he doesn't realise that at first). Worth a read. Light and fun.
Sex is graphic and superfluous, but I've become used to it in this genre, and it's easy to skip without losing the plot. I'm starting to believe that the editors add the overly long sex paragraphs as they think this is what gay men want?? Perhaps I'm odd in the fact that they're not needed to progress the story and although it's nice occasionally, I'd prefer it were left to my imagination.
Story is basically sound. Ex Olympian, bashes brain in practice dive, sees stars and from then on, everyone else's mood, in the form of coloured auras (although he doesn't realise that at first). Worth a read. Light and fun.
By pegasusuk
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I have had a number of K A Mitchell books over the last year - each has been great reading. This was no exception. Good read, good price.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
I wanted more, but what's there is great
6 Aug 2010
By Ann Somerville
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
By the time I was about ten pages into this book, I was grinning. We had a disabled protag, being done very well. Bad sex, done credibly and amusingly. Great characters, great set up. Thirty pages in and I was crying. That's when I started to curse K A effing Mitchell for spoiling me so badly. After I read her books, I expect every other author to be this brilliant and...they just aren't. She's one of a kind.
But about a hundred pages in, the woo woo started, and I began to lose faith. This wasn't what I expected from this story, and I was afraid it was going to go places I would find a tad sickly.
Mostly it avoided those places, though I did think the way the supernatural plot device was handled was a little pat. What it definitely was, was over too soon. I was just getting past the woo-woo thing, getting back into John and Mason, and wham bam thank you ma'am, it was over!
Huh. And I wanted more, damn it! I wanted more, because though the beautifully written and hot sex scenes were fabulous and character building, there really wasn't enough between John and Mason at the end to justify where they got to, and Mason's recovery was simply too fast. In fact, I was left feeling rather cheated by Mason because though a lot of people kept telling him and us what an a**hole he was and how he had to make amends for that at various points, he didn't seem as messed up as he could be considering what he'd gone through. John was great, and I loved how his disability was described and woven into the story, and how he coped with the grief of losing his fitness and sports career. Mason just didn't seem that well fleshed out, though he's got a lot of potential.
A cast of great supporting characters is par for the course with this author, and I see she's setting up a series with this one. For me, this was a solid Mitchell, much better than Chasing Smoke, but not quite at the level of Collision Course. Which still means this is a highly enjoyable, engrossing read, and one which makes me hungry for Fragments, Book 2.
But about a hundred pages in, the woo woo started, and I began to lose faith. This wasn't what I expected from this story, and I was afraid it was going to go places I would find a tad sickly.
Mostly it avoided those places, though I did think the way the supernatural plot device was handled was a little pat. What it definitely was, was over too soon. I was just getting past the woo-woo thing, getting back into John and Mason, and wham bam thank you ma'am, it was over!
Huh. And I wanted more, damn it! I wanted more, because though the beautifully written and hot sex scenes were fabulous and character building, there really wasn't enough between John and Mason at the end to justify where they got to, and Mason's recovery was simply too fast. In fact, I was left feeling rather cheated by Mason because though a lot of people kept telling him and us what an a**hole he was and how he had to make amends for that at various points, he didn't seem as messed up as he could be considering what he'd gone through. John was great, and I loved how his disability was described and woven into the story, and how he coped with the grief of losing his fitness and sports career. Mason just didn't seem that well fleshed out, though he's got a lot of potential.
A cast of great supporting characters is par for the course with this author, and I see she's setting up a series with this one. For me, this was a solid Mitchell, much better than Chasing Smoke, but not quite at the level of Collision Course. Which still means this is a highly enjoyable, engrossing read, and one which makes me hungry for Fragments, Book 2.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Much potential
26 Mar 2012
By balaklava
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Yes, indeed, much potential, and promise, and the realization was far from well done.
With such characters (emotional and physical damage, and living with it) much could have been done, but more or less all that WAS done was sex. As fun as that is (especially for the characters) there is little shown in the character development, and plot was mostly put aside.
Would like to see this done again, but much more in-depth characterization.
With such characters (emotional and physical damage, and living with it) much could have been done, but more or less all that WAS done was sex. As fun as that is (especially for the characters) there is little shown in the character development, and plot was mostly put aside.
Would like to see this done again, but much more in-depth characterization.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
It was ok.
8 Mar 2012
By chester
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The description of the book sounded ok. As I was reading the main character were very well written, you hear from both sides. The story line was ok, I thought it was kinda odd though. There were some parts where I thought ok get on with it or just leave, with the main characters. They had good chemistry but I don't like the ex's coming back into the picture when they're trying to go on with life. I just didn't really like how the story was played out.
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