review 1: 4.5 starsI'm not a big fan of cross dressing books but this one just hit it right on the money. You have Tyler, a emotionally scarred young man paying his way through music school by participating in sex parties. Then we have Haris, also an emotionally scarred older business man, trying to control everything in his world to prevent being hurt again. They meet in an odd way and we see the the relationship grow through angst, betrayal, jealousy, mistrust, hope and love. Truly a worth while read. review 2: This was an ok read, even it was a little confusing at times. A bit too much thrown at us and not developed enough. What threw me for a bit was that Caleb and Levi were in an established relationship of a year and a half. I wasn’t expecting that from the blurb... more but went with it.I liked the themes this story approached: self acceptance and trust in a relationship, even if I wasn’t so mad about the main character. Oddly, I really loved Levi, who’s not so present in this story and found Caleb kind of a selfish and confused kid. He is so afraid to be who he truly is that he builds an iron wall around himself that prevents people from reaching him. Which is sad. Instead he keeps this tough façade and lashes out at everybody. This is to be understood since he’s struggling with abandonment issues but he takes it a step further. He’s so scared of revealing himself that he denies those who love him a chance at showing him acceptance. He’s kind of a coward that decides for them that he is not worthy of being loved and pushes them away. This is hard to see in his relationship with Levi who’s really a sweetheart, but who is not given the benefit of the doubt. Instead, Caleb decides Levi couldn’t possibly understand and accept him. It’s hard to even call it a relationship since Caleb holds so much of himself back.What I truly didn’t like was the whole thing with his uncle/father/mother/ that was just confusing. The uncle is a bad guy or a good guy, or a misunderstood guy whom Caleb denied a chance at a relationship…… Maybe it was too much drama for 100 pages. And, to be completely honest, regarding the cross dressing issues…..I didn’t truly see it as this huge secret. Or maybe the author hasn’t sold me on it being a huge problem.In my opinion, Caleb had only one problem: his inability to trust those close to him. To trust that they will truly see and love the real him. Luckily for him, they did! less
