ollkie

There's a sweetness to this story between blind teacher Adam and Luke, who is performing community service by assisting Adam, that pulls you in despite some of its flaws. The two men are very likable. There is an interesting psychic link between the two of them that's explored to good effect in a couple of scenes. They develop passionate feelings for each other quickly, as is typical of these types of books. As for the flaws previously mentioned, there is the inconsistency of Luke's character. He's first described as the more experienced of the pair, the one that will teach Adam. Then it turns out he's not really all the experienced and his age of 21, didn't seem to match the world weariness of the character. He's supposed to be this angry, closed character, but then all of a sudden he's not. Surrounding all the interactions between Luke & Adam is this deep secret that Luke is carrying that will mean that Luke cannot stay with Adam. It gets such a build up that when we discover what it is, at the end of the book, it's very anticlimactic and made me question Luke's character again and why he would think Adam would leave him over this. I think if we had found out about this in the middle of the book and explored this issue it would have been an improvement. But the only exploring the two of them ever wanted to do was each other's bodies. Yes, this book had way too much sex in the sense that most of these scenes did not further the plot. In fact they sometimes hindered plot development. I think cutting these scenes by half and filling them up with Luke & Adam interacting in other ways would have helped this story greatly. This turned out to be a very nice story and a pleasant way to pass the time but it could have been better with some adjustments.

2022-11-14 16:00