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A Midwinter Prince (2010)

by Harper Fox(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 2

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A Midwinter Prince

review 1: 4.5 stars. This book was released in what seems to have been the author's first year of publication. (Just three years ago - wow, she's done so much good writing in such a short span.) It is a little less crafted, less layered with the gorgeous language that makes a Harper Fox novel something unique, but there are flashes and moments that are stunning. The basic story is a classic, of the rich boy who has material wealth but nothing else good or real in his life, meeting the poor boy who changes his world.Laurie is an interesting character, a young man with talent and intelligence but who has learned a passive approach to life around his overbearing and volatile father. He's a little absent, feeling colorless when we meet him. The only thing that rouses him to effort a... morend real engagement is protecting and nurturing his younger sister, to whom he is brother and father-figure both. But one cold night he spots a homeless man just about his age, huddled in a doorway, and has a moment of connection that becomes an epiphany. A few days later he tracks Sasha down, and takes him in for the night. And in turn, Sasha unlocks Laurie from the fog of distance in which he is living his life and makes him feel real, urgent and necessary passion within himself, for someone new.But Sasha is an illegal immigrant with a shady past, and Laurie's father is a bigot and homophobic. Being together isn't simple in any way. The story plays out with a fair bit of drama and unexpected moments of hard-won joy. The plot is eventful, the resolution sweet. Like almost everything this author writes, I read this in one sitting, and will come back to it. Not my favorite Harper Fox, but that bar is very high indeed. Still going on my favorites list, and a reread.I won a free copy of this book on the M/M group, but I'd been searching for it and would have bought it anyway. I'll read anything Harper Fox cares to write.
review 2: I thought this would be a “comfort read” sort of book when I started it, but man---by the middle all sorts of melodramatic things were happening! And perhaps I would have preferred it if the plot were a bit more mundane----more about Laurie building his new independent life with Sasha while working in the theatre, and less about Sasha’s soap-opera sort of past.But hey, by this point anything by Harper Fox is nearly an automatic buy for me, and while this book isn’t going to be a favourite of mine I did enjoy it well enough and can recommend it.You know, just from reading the plot summary this sounds like a historical novel, so I suppose I should note that it's strictly contemporary. And looking through the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, seems like a lot of other people were fooled too---they went into the story expecting one thing, and had to rapidly adjust their frame of reference when it became apparent that this wasn't a Regency (or Victorian or Edwardian) drama. less

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