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Poor Little Rich Boy (2000)

by Kate Sherwood(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: I received a copy of this book via Goodreads’ Don’t Buy My Love program in exchange for an honest review.Alex Diaz and Nick Colton were childhood best friends turned lovers. Nick’s Father, Blake, was a wealthy—but absent—parent and his mother killed herself when he was young, so he latched onto his housekeeper, Rosa, and her eldest son, Alex. Their time together was alive and active, and TROUBLE. So much so that a college bender nearly puts Alex off his scholarship—unless Nick leaves the university. Both families think that the boys are a combustible combo, and Rosa even convinces Alex to break it off with Nick. Nick is shattered—and runs far and long.Ten year later, Nick is called back to Seattle to (perhaps) donate bone marrow to his half-sister Anna. In hi... mores absence Blake has remarried and had two children, and Alex has complete college, law school and become engaged—to a woman.Nick hasn’t squandered his time away. He may not have any fancy degrees, but he’s become a corporate raider under the tutelage of a venture capitalist, and his sights are set—on Blake’s company. What he didn’t plan for? His feelings for Alex. Sure, he could cut his father down—they had little relationship to lose, after all. But Alex was like air to him in their childhood…how could he deny himself? Or, his feelings for Nick by being with a woman?Okay, so this book is a bit PRETTY WOMAN—with Alex being a corporate attorney caught between the warring Coltons. As it turns out, Alex is a close match as a marrow donor for his young sister, a girl he had never met. And he goes through with the donation, despite his own personal fears regarding surgery and hospitals—from years of watching his mother’s depression and eventual demise. His new step-mother is feisty woman, one who demands Nick find a better perspective on the past ten years; in some ways he does. Meanwhile Alex feels the familiar pangs he experienced with Nick all those years ago. Can he live the way he’s tried all these years—as a hetero man, raising kids with a woman he sees as a “good match,” but not a soul mate? It’s an interesting M/M contemporary romance. Both men have their hurdles—Nick has to let go of his abandonment issues, and Alex has to decide if his future will be in the role cast for him by his family, or in the truth of his own desire. There are a few smexytimes, but they take a backseat in this plot. I started this book at 1am, and finished it by 4:15….which is an indication of how caught I was in the story. Good stuff, well-written, with characters I liked and an emotionally resonant tale.
review 2: I felt for Nick. He was a spoiled youth, yes, but who spoiled him? His father always got him out of jams including using influence and money. He showed no love or understanding of his son who had lost his mother in life shattering way. What kind of role model did Nick have? Yes he was somewhat out of control and Alex was always with him. No one forced Alex. Alex was and remained a follower. Nick was and remained an Alpha. Nick could keep living as long as he had Alex, but Alex turned his back on Nick. Leaving his house of emptiness was the best thing Nick did. He grew up. Yikes, do we do that as we age and mature? As Nick indicated, his family always knew where he was. He sent a Christmas card every year with his return address on it. No one called him. No one asked him to come home. No one invited him to his father's wedding. No one invited him home to meet his baby sister or later his baby brother. It took 10 years for his family to call and ask him to come home and that was because they needed his help. His sister to whom he had never been introduced was dying. They needed to see if Nick was a bone marrow match. Nick came home to help. Alex never attempted to reach out to Nick either. Alex retreated to the man he thought his and Alex's family wanted him to be. He became a Corporate lawyer not a lawyer picking his own cases and doing pro bono work when he wanted. Alex retreated into a shell that said he was straight when the center of the shell was gay. Alex was not happy. He was only existing for others not himself. I liked Nick with his all business ass hole surface and lonely lost soul underneath. He was good for Alex and Alex was good for him. No bad guys in this story, just some jerks and little boys in men's clothing who had to learn to communicate with each other. Nice read. less

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