Partners A Gay Romance edition by T L Stowe Literature Fiction eBooks
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When two gay policemen, who yearn for each other, finally discover the other is also gay, sparks fly, long time erotic desires are fulfilled, and questions of unrequited love begin to hang in the air. Will hearts be broken or will their lust for each other blossom into love?
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He was leaving already? He'd been sitting with his eyes closed, trying to think of something to say, other than what wanted to come out. He wanted to do something really stupid. He wanted to ask his friend if he could kiss him. But now Alex was saying he was leaving, and Rick sure as hell hadn't expected that.
"Why?" Rick heard the disappointment in his voice and tried to mask it quick with a smartass comment. "Got a hot date waiting?"
When Alex just shook his head, the half-hearted grin he'd given faded. What the hell was this tension? They'd never been tense around each other before. Whatever he'd been expecting Alex to say, it wasn't what came next.
"No. Rick, do you know why I wasn't interested in Gloria?"
His confusion showed clearly, even in the dim light. "Yeah. Shit, the woman was pushy as hell."
When Alex shook his head again, Rick just waited, sensing his friend was going to talk, but needed a second to do it.
Jesus, was he really about to do this? Alex couldn't even blame the beer, but he knew that he was. He had to. He took a deep breath, looking his friend in the eye.
"She could have been the sexiest, sweetest woman in the world and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference." He said as he turned to leave.
"Alex, wait."
He saw him watching him, waiting, and tried to say something, but for a minute his throat was locked and all he could do was look back up at his friend intently. Finally all he could get out was, "I didn't know". But thoughts and half realized instincts were flying through his head too fast for Rick to sort them out. When all Alex did was nod silently, Rick tried to blame the beer in his system for making him stand, but he knew it was a lie. He was stone sober and scared shitless.
Neither one of them seemed able to move for a minute - the tension in the air around them seemed to simmer. He thought Alex looked like he was waiting for him to punch him or something. It was the ‘or something' that had his palms sweating. With Alex's admission something had coalesced in Rick, filling him with a need to act that was too strong to ignore. When he took a step closer to his friend, he saw him tense and wanted to tell him to relax, but couldn't.
"Okay, you can beat the shit outta me for this if you want," he murmured instead. He then took the last step, closing the distance between them and raised a hand to curl it around Alex's neck, tugging him closer. His heart was running like a freight train in his chest, but the spark that seemed to hit him when his lips met Alex's shot straight through him.
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Partners A Gay Romance edition by T L Stowe Literature Fiction eBooks
I was truly disappointed with "Partners". I'd had high hopes for it - I loved the premise and the characters looked engaging.And perhaps I would have liked it a great deal more were it better written, researched and edited.
The writing, itself, is resonably good. The dialogue is almost believable, the settings and events well-described, and the overall arc interesting, if not intriguing.
However, some of the choices made by the author actually worked against the book. Point-of-view was the first issue. Some books are written third-person, some first-person (of one chosen character), others switch back and forth between more than one character, usually as sub-chapters. This one switched between the thoughts, speech and actions of each of the two characters, apparently at will - sometimes within the same paragraph, sometimes even within a single sentence. I can't tell you the number of times I had to back up, a paragraph or more, just to figure out who was speaking, thinking or acting. It was an awful lot of work, with little to show for it.
The endless, repetitive use of vague pronouns compounded the problem. When each of the two men, Alex and Rick (partners in the police department), think or refer to each other, it's always as "his friend". Nothing more to identify who the subject is. In dialogue, they refer to each other as "buddy", except once they fall in love, and then it's, occasionally, "Babe".
To top it all off, there were even confusing statements and descriptions that made it hard to understand some of the basic foundations of the plot. At one point, the author refers to the building Alex lives in, apparently a huge multi-story former warehouse that Alex "bought". Later on, you find out that he only has a loft on the fourth floor, remodeled brilliantly, but on the cheap. What's with that? Did he buy the building, or what?
And if that weren't enough, there were some major research errors and oversights that bled the book of much, if not all, credibility. If you're going to write a romance that's also a police procedural, you really should have a good grasp of police procedure - or at the very least, of the most basic reality. Alex is shot in the arm when responding to an armed robbery. He's injured badly enough that Rick is terrified at the amount of blood he's losing. Nonetheless, Rick goes back to securing and Mirandizing the culprit, while Alex, blood running down his arm, takes out a notebook and starts taking witness statements? In what alternate reality? The guy is injured, gushing blood, and he's calmly taking statements, writing with his injured arm? Give me a break.
The climax of the book left me shaking my head. It happens in a Grand Jury room, after Rick is accused of police brutality by the armed robber who shot Alex. Who's in the room? The judge, the jury, the complainant (the robber), his attorneys, the Assistant District Attorney and all the witnesses. In a Grand Jury room? Doesn't T. L. Stowe know the most basic facts of jurisprudence? Grand Juries are absolutely and totally secret. Period. The complainants are never there. None of the witnesses are ever there. No attorneys are there (without special dispensation). The author has the whole entourage conducting a full-fledged trial in a Grand Jury hearing? Never happened. Never will happen. The author could have made it a preliminary hearing, instead, and retained at least a shred of credibility - but, unfortunately, did not.
On top of this confusion and inaccuracy, the reader has to deal with a ton of editing errors. Apparently, the author does not like the dash (-), and avoids it like the plague. For example, referring to prints on a wall, "they were all in sienna hued [sic sienna-hued] black and white", or "dead ended [sic dead-ended] about ten feet ahead" and "the etched glass encased [sic glass-encased], or this gem: "even stock still [sic stock-still], he was hot". The missing dashes sometimes made sentences either difficult to parse or resulted in unintended humor.
The author also seems to dislike adverbs. The use of the word "quick", in quite a few places, was entirely inappropriate: "it dried quick [sic quickly]", "he peeked into the dryer quick [sic quickly]."
Occasionally, the entire wrong word was used. Dishes do not dry in a "dish strainer", but in a "dish drainer". "Rick was shaking from his come". I didn't know that semen causes the shakes - perhaps the author meant "orgasm"? How can a police officer have a "set" of uniform? I would have liked to be with them when Rick was "bringing his body to line [sic in line?] with Alex's".
There were even a few typos that left me baffled, totally in the dark as to what the author intended, such as " conditions, no 'except's". Huh? Or this obvious formatting error: ">i>f**kin' liar!" (asterisks mine).
You get my drift. In any event, the plot is so thin that, even with the credibility, typo and POV issues solved, I'm not at all sure that I would have enjoyed this book. And, sadly, I certainly cannot recommend it.
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Partners A Gay Romance edition by T L Stowe Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is a really great story with men who act like you'd expect men to act. In the m/m genre, I've come to expect stories where either one man is super macho while the other acts more feminine or two men who act somewhat feminine, but not here. This is truly two men in a relationship. If you can get past one of them technically cheating on his wife, which I could considering the marriage really had been long over, then you'll enjoy a story with hot men having hot sex. I loved the way Alex handled Rick once he became of Rick's interest; he didn't pounce, but gently guided him. Alex was very considerate and gave Rick the space/time he needed to come to accept himself and make the necessary life changes that acceptance entails. It's well-written and believable with developed characters. I'll be keeping an eye of more works from this author.
"Partners" by T.L. Stowe is the story of two police partners, whose friendship evolves into love. When reading a novel to review, I look for a phrase, sentence or scene that encapsulates the essence of the story. I chose this sentence
"Stupid and selfish and dangerous as it was, he'd gone and fallen in love with his best friend."
Alex is a six one, blond with dark gray eyes, muscular individual with sparse blond body hair. He is gay, but plays his sexual orientation close to his vest, and he is not in a relationship. Rick is five ten with black hair and blue eyes. His body is gym-toned and dusted with silky black hair, his marriage to Michelle is dysfunctional.
Three years earlier, Alex Peterson and Rick Brewer graduate the same class from the police academy. For the past ten months, they work as partners bonding a close friendship. During this time, the partners crush on one another stolen glances in the locker room, furtive looks in the shower checking bodies and packages, and manic masturbation fantasizing sex with the other.
Their friendship reaches critical mass after a disastrous Sunday at Rick's home. Michelle, Rick's wife, plots to set up Alex with her friend, Gloria. Thwarted by Alex's disinterest in her, Gloria disappears, and Michelle leaves to help her mother. Rick tries to apologize for Gloria's misbehavior. To ease Rick's distress, Alex outs himself, expecting his "straight" partner to toss him from the house. No! Rick kisses Alex; and that they say is that! Fantasy becomes reality.
The author alternates the point of view of each main character permitting the reader to experience the emotional and physical responses of each to this new relationship. Alex is patience, not wanting to push Rick into something Rick is emotionally or physically unprepared to accept. Rick, however, becomes a willing participant, eager to experience the gamut of a gay relationship.
This point of view works well until the sex. With the careless use of the masculine pronouns he, him and his to identify each principle character-- sometimes in the same sentence-- the reader often pauses to visualize who is doing what to whom. (I find this often in male/male genre.)
There is police drama, of course, with each main character suffering a gunshot, an internal investigation, and a possible indictment for police overuse of force.
Other than the pronoun issue, the book has minor punctuation errors (word?.) and word confusion (you're for your; mean for men.) Authors invest great effort to write a book; so editors and line editors should too. This careless attention to technical issues can only hamper the genre acceptance.
I encourage you to read the book to see how Alex and Rick achieve an HFN ending.
This was my first read from this author and I really enjoyed this book. I was kept entertained by the characters and it was easy to follow Rick's struggle from straight to gay wasn't drawn out like some stories. It was more of a realization that his feelings for his partner were more than just in the friend zone once hidden secrets were revealed. It had just enough drama to add that ump to the story but not enough to distract you from what was building between the two main characters. I would have liked for it to be just a bit longer to find out what happened with Rick's ex wife did she ever discover his feelings were for a him and not a her? Also what's next for Alex did he come to a decision about his future? All in all a very good story.
I was truly disappointed with "Partners". I'd had high hopes for it - I loved the premise and the characters looked engaging.
And perhaps I would have liked it a great deal more were it better written, researched and edited.
The writing, itself, is resonably good. The dialogue is almost believable, the settings and events well-described, and the overall arc interesting, if not intriguing.
However, some of the choices made by the author actually worked against the book. Point-of-view was the first issue. Some books are written third-person, some first-person (of one chosen character), others switch back and forth between more than one character, usually as sub-chapters. This one switched between the thoughts, speech and actions of each of the two characters, apparently at will - sometimes within the same paragraph, sometimes even within a single sentence. I can't tell you the number of times I had to back up, a paragraph or more, just to figure out who was speaking, thinking or acting. It was an awful lot of work, with little to show for it.
The endless, repetitive use of vague pronouns compounded the problem. When each of the two men, Alex and Rick (partners in the police department), think or refer to each other, it's always as "his friend". Nothing more to identify who the subject is. In dialogue, they refer to each other as "buddy", except once they fall in love, and then it's, occasionally, "Babe".
To top it all off, there were even confusing statements and descriptions that made it hard to understand some of the basic foundations of the plot. At one point, the author refers to the building Alex lives in, apparently a huge multi-story former warehouse that Alex "bought". Later on, you find out that he only has a loft on the fourth floor, remodeled brilliantly, but on the cheap. What's with that? Did he buy the building, or what?
And if that weren't enough, there were some major research errors and oversights that bled the book of much, if not all, credibility. If you're going to write a romance that's also a police procedural, you really should have a good grasp of police procedure - or at the very least, of the most basic reality. Alex is shot in the arm when responding to an armed robbery. He's injured badly enough that Rick is terrified at the amount of blood he's losing. Nonetheless, Rick goes back to securing and Mirandizing the culprit, while Alex, blood running down his arm, takes out a notebook and starts taking witness statements? In what alternate reality? The guy is injured, gushing blood, and he's calmly taking statements, writing with his injured arm? Give me a break.
The climax of the book left me shaking my head. It happens in a Grand Jury room, after Rick is accused of police brutality by the armed robber who shot Alex. Who's in the room? The judge, the jury, the complainant (the robber), his attorneys, the Assistant District Attorney and all the witnesses. In a Grand Jury room? Doesn't T. L. Stowe know the most basic facts of jurisprudence? Grand Juries are absolutely and totally secret. Period. The complainants are never there. None of the witnesses are ever there. No attorneys are there (without special dispensation). The author has the whole entourage conducting a full-fledged trial in a Grand Jury hearing? Never happened. Never will happen. The author could have made it a preliminary hearing, instead, and retained at least a shred of credibility - but, unfortunately, did not.
On top of this confusion and inaccuracy, the reader has to deal with a ton of editing errors. Apparently, the author does not like the dash (-), and avoids it like the plague. For example, referring to prints on a wall, "they were all in sienna hued [sic sienna-hued] black and white", or "dead ended [sic dead-ended] about ten feet ahead" and "the etched glass encased [sic glass-encased], or this gem "even stock still [sic stock-still], he was hot". The missing dashes sometimes made sentences either difficult to parse or resulted in unintended humor.
The author also seems to dislike adverbs. The use of the word "quick", in quite a few places, was entirely inappropriate "it dried quick [sic quickly]", "he peeked into the dryer quick [sic quickly]."
Occasionally, the entire wrong word was used. Dishes do not dry in a "dish strainer", but in a "dish drainer". "Rick was shaking from his come". I didn't know that semen causes the shakes - perhaps the author meant "orgasm"? How can a police officer have a "set" of uniform? I would have liked to be with them when Rick was "bringing his body to line [sic in line?] with Alex's".
There were even a few typos that left me baffled, totally in the dark as to what the author intended, such as " conditions, no 'except's". Huh? Or this obvious formatting error ">i>f**kin' liar!" (asterisks mine).
You get my drift. In any event, the plot is so thin that, even with the credibility, typo and POV issues solved, I'm not at all sure that I would have enjoyed this book. And, sadly, I certainly cannot recommend it.
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