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Patchwork Heaven (2014)

by Jaime Samms(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1632164078 (ISBN13: 9781632164070)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: Um I usually love Jamie Samms but I feel like an alien took over her writing and this is the result. I’m struggling with this book pretty mightily and considering I’ve had a rash of bad luck with books I really don’t want to continue with this because I’m pretty confident it’s not getting any better. Then I’ll have invested a lot into a book I got no enjoyment or entertainment from. YMMV. To start with I can’t believe that the plot got this far – I’m at page 100 – without someone pointing out the numerous inherent flaws. I worried that I was alone in my frustration and anger at the story until I skimmed reviews to see that thankfully others feel the same way. To start with the plot should be fine, if only it was executed well. Twin country music stars a... morere being stalked and hire a bodyguard firm to keep them safe. Predictably twin one, the main stalkee, falls for said bodyguard and after much angst and sex, happiness ensues. Unfortunately I just can’t ride out the angst and I don’t like the couple anyway.Initially I thought this book was a sequel since there are numerous references to something that happened to Bruce, but no one will say exactly what happened. Instead it was as if the reader should already know, from a previous book I thought, and the story wasn’t rehashing the information. Instead this is supposedly the first book so I don’t understand the need to refer to secret information constantly without giving the reader the details. It just annoyed me. Most likely a sequel will go into whatever happened to Bruce but I don’t think –this- book needed so many constant references when that information isn’t going to be offered, at least it wasn’t yet.Furthermore, Gregor, the owner/lead bodyguard, is incompetent. There are so many holes and flaws in his “protection” that it’s not surprising the twin being stalked, Coby, is basically on his own the entire book. For starters someone breaks into his trailer because apparently Gregor only has 3 bodyguards, including himself, protecting this incredibly high profile music star. No one can be spared to watch the trailer apparently. So the stalker also gets the drop on the bodyguard and knocks him out with a two-by-four when of course no one but the bodyguard and Coby are around. Then the stalker gets away without anyone seeing him. No one calls the cops because why would they? No one apparently covers the post when Gregor goes to the bathroom either. It’s just left open for Coby to get assaulted. Then let’s discuss how a stalker gets close enough to gun down both twins, Coby and Bruce, but everyone tells Gregor it’s not his fault. The truth is … it IS his fault! I started ranting about these circumstances almost immediately and then kind of went off the rails when Gregor has Coby walk down three flights of stairs in a hospital when he’s released from the hospital. Apparently some paperwork means the hospital will ignore their liability claims for someone famous. I get really annoyed at books when authors have to justify and explain something they know readers will dislike. Any reader will balk at Coby walking down stairs to an alley before being discharged but hey, the book explained it so it’s ok. All of this was bad enough but honestly the BDSM stuff out of nowhere is where I really lost the book. Coby does not come across as submissive to me, at all. He feels overwhelmed because he’s being stalked and perhaps a little mentally slow, given that he sees music as colors nearly constantly, but not submissive. So this random scene where Gregor suddenly dominates Coby, fresh out of the hospital and still hurting, seems out of nowhere and simply, wrong. It feels wrong. Coby even says he thinks Gregor needs to dominate so he’ll give in. Honestly it just all added up to a book I wasn’t enjoying and didn’t want to slog through to the end. I’m only a third of the way in and the thought of reading more depresses me sadly. I’m passing.
review 2: REVIEWED FOR PRISM BOOK ALLIANCEI loved this!! I found it a little confusing sometimes but what a great story!! I could almost hear the music and see the colours.Coby and Bruce Kennedy are twins and they have this weird twin thing going on. By the end of the book I was feeling pleased I wasn’t a twin and having to live with other people’s emotions in my head! Almost everything about these two boys is tied up together including the person out to get them.As we start the story we learn that the brothers have a stalker problem and have called in extra security the head of which is Gregor, a dominant and sexy man, with twin issues of his own. The two boys are part of a country singing band and are currently on tour. No matter how tight Gregor and his men make the security surrounding them nothing seems to prevent cards, letters and gifts getting through to them. When their trailer is ransacked everyone is put on high alert and it seems this is just the start of the escalation in activities and very soon they are left fearing for their lives.Coby and Gregor are both attracted to each other but starting anything proves difficult when they are client and employer and someone seems determined to harm Coby. When they do get a minute and examine their feelings Coby is startled to learn something new about himself but is very open to the way Gregor makes him feel. I loved this side of their relationship. With the way Coby relied on his brother it felt a very natural way for things to go for them and they both needed it for different reasons.I have to admit I kind of guessed who the stalker was quite early on but it didn’t take anything away from the story. I needed to know the whys and it was far more complicated than just knowing the name. There are a lot of twists and turns that will keep you turning the pages and make you unable to put the book down. There is a little bit of everything in this book and Jaime Samms has produced another winner! The epilogue was just perfect! less

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