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Patient Eyes (2009)

by Andy Eisenberg(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1615810641 (ISBN13: 9781615810642)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: This story reads like Corbin Fisher fan fic. Since I like amateur ghey pron and I like Corbin Fisher that's not a bad thing in my book. Jaden is a starving college student (literally) who does some gay-for-pay porn to make ends meet and in the process discovers he is gay (pay or not) and finds the love of his life.I really liked the premise of this book. Many times I watched my favorite CF vid and wished I had the talent to write a story to go with it. Glad to see someone actually executed the idea. The characters are likable and engaging. I really enjoyed reading about what these guys lives might be like and what might be on their minds while they work. All in all, I really fell for Jaden and Brendan and their beautiful journey into love.Spoilers ahead...Unfortunately,... more there are a couple of things about the book that pulled me out of the story and I had to work hard to get "back in". First, there were a couple of times where the character's action's just didn't seem likely. One example is the time that Brendan told Jaden that they had to save their first time for the camera. Yeah, right. Because we all know that when an amateur porn website posts a video of a model's first time bottoming, it's really, truly their first time. Gods, I sure hope not! Another example is the ending. Perhaps it is the rebel in me, but no way that I would ever go back to my parent's home if they talked to me the way they talked to Jaden, unless there were some serious apologies going on. ...and no way that a man is going to take the "high road" and step away so his boyfriend can have a relationship with his parents. The parents that kicked him out and refused to pay tuition. BS. It would take years to undo the kind of damage that Jayden's parents inflicted in one day. Bottom line, I hated the ending.The writing style was good but not great, a little clunky in places, but generally unobtrusive. Plot issues aside, this is an author with potential whose writing still lacks a little finesse. I suspect this story was fanfic and was tweaked for publication. Who knows? (The author knows, of course! It has been clarified in the comments below that this story was never fanfic. So I was way off base there.)After all the ranting you might think I wouldn't recommend the book. However, fact is I enjoyed reading the story quite a bit and will probably read it again minus the ending. Fans of CF, college boy stories and stories set in the porn industry in general will most likely enjoy this book. While I did not like the ending, most people may like it, even love it. After all, it is a HEA. So, go ahead and check it out and let me know what you think.
review 2: I really enjoyed this book right up to the last chapter - which I HATED with a passion that totally eclipses the anything that I got from the rest of the book.What, did the author run out of time? We get 200 pages of a lovely developing relationship and then wham, the main character is disowned by his parents, runs to find shelter with his lover, and then on the next page it's THREE YEARS LATER and they apparently slowly broke up, the hero continued to do porn with other men, and now they are magically going to get back together again?WTF?I would have given it four stars, but I almost threw my computer at the wall when I got to the end of this one so it gets two. less

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