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Love Means... No Limits (2013)

by Andrew Grey(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1623803101 (ISBN13: 9781623803100)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

Farm

review 1: Interracial MM romance. Not much of this type of sub-genre around….I really enjoyed it!Yes, the story is full of stereotypes - Tyrone's black family is ridiculously homophobic, devastatingly poor and has a drug dealer, and Bart's rich white family is headed by his cold and distant parents. Despite the stereotypes, there were many things I liked about the story - the detail paid to Bart's struggle to recover from long-term drug-use, the fact that Bart did not "suddenly" get better after rehab, and the fact that Bart was vocal about his cravings. I also liked Bart's courtship of Tyrone. However, I was surprised that the MCs were not "at it" more often!
review 2: The Love Means series by Andrew Grey is one of my favorite groups of novels. Brief background for ... morethose who don't know it . . . The Love Means series documents the life at Laughton Farm. The original novels which captivated my heart told the story of Geoff Laughton and his partner, Eli. Over the course of the first three or four novels, we learned all about the Laughton family and the Amish lifestyle where Eli was raised. In each book in the series, we learn how Laughton Farm seems to have a "magical quality", and it protects the people and couples who live and work at the farm. Each book in the series has focused on a different couple's development, and how they fit into the unconventional family that has developed at the farm. In the newest book in the series, Love Means . . . No Limits., we meet a new character named Bart a/k/a Spider. He is a young man who comes from a wealthy family, but there are secrets in his life (some of which are revealed in this novel) that cause him to resort to drug abuse. Without giving too much away about the story, Bart ends up in a work release program at Laughton Farms where he meets Tyrone (one of the farm hands). I actually wished that there would have been a little more time spent developing the potential love affair between Bart and Tyrone -- more about the courting between the two and the dropping of the barriers between them. And, some more time delving into the prior unsavory life that Bart lead him to the place where he is at the beginning of this novel. All of Andrew Grey's books demonstrate masterful development of characters. In this book, since the author is taking on the heady topics of drug abuse and racism (sort of reverse racism actually), I would have liked to know a lot more about Bart and Tyrone's backstories -- I think a little more exposition of their life stories would have made it easier to like these characters earlier in their struggles. And, one point for the fans of the original stories in the series -- I have always liked the interplay between the owners of Laughton Farms, Geoff and Eli. Theirs is truly the fairy-tale love story experience. I know this novel was primarily about the two new characters, but I sure missed some of the great dialogue that gets written between Geoff and Eli. And let's face facts, the sex scenes between Geoff and Eli have always been some of the best and most romantic in the M/M fiction world. I missed that in this novel. The story is really tightly written -- it is a very fast read at just under 200 pages. I guess the best thing to say was that I was disappointed when I was done with it because it was over, I wished that the story would have gone on for another hundred pages. There are fascinating characters at Laughton Farm, and just giving everyone a snipet of an update about these folks' lives would have been appreciated. This is probably a five star book, but I am really picky because it is one of my favorite series, and I craved to know more about the characters -- so I'm going to give it 4 stars because I am too much of a fan and I wanted more. less

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