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Puppy, Car, And Snow (2011)

by Amy Lane(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1613722699 (ISBN13: 9781613722695)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

Ryan & Scott

review 1: i know this was supposed to be heart-warming, and it kinda was -- except that i wanted to dropkick ryan's arsehole of a mother into the next century. and i didn't like the implicit message that you're stuck with family and have to put up with whatever they put you through. ryan does try to run interference, and defends scott from every snide remark, but frankly, what this mother needed was a serious confrontation and an ultimatum: stop denigrating my partner, you sorry excuse for a human being, or i'm outta here until you grow up. yeah, we all need to make compromises, but no, we do NOT need to kowtow to our parents when they behave badly. everyone just placated her. i don't buy the "oh, she's just protective of her children" line either, because she didn't act like sh... moree actually gave a shit about ryan, or she surely would have noticed that he was beyond happy with scott, and she would have acknowledged what a decent person scott was, because he behaved like a wet dream of a partner, what with the cooking and caring for the kids and all. so even if she was too hoity-toity to accept his free-wheeling ways, there was much to be appreciated about scott, and she didn't try, and instead actively attempted to hurt him, which she must have known would hurt ryan. *gah*.for me, the mother ruined most of what could have been heart-warming here, and i ended up feeling angry, and didn't even enjoy the sex (kinda like ryan, it all dried up for me under the withering criticism, and because i didn't have scott's actual lovely cock in front of me, i didn't get distracted from the anger sufficiently to eke out some erotic feelings). ryan and scott are adorable characters, and i am thrilled for their happy ending, but it's a shame amy lane couldn't come up with a more complex character for the mother, somebody i didn't outright hate.
review 2: A really sweet and poignant story about established lovers headed out to spend Christmas with family. They have to deal with Ryan's disapproving mother who has no issue being pretty horrible to her son's partner. I really enjoyed Ryan and Scott's relationship. I liked how they worked together and how they were real devoted partners to each other. Lots of cute moments but never overly so, this is the third in a series and not having read the previous stories this had a real standalone feel to it. I liked it enough that I'll get the others to see how these two hooked up. A really wonderful holiday read. less

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