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La Mia Piccolina (2013)

by Piper Vaughn(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1613727801 (ISBN13: 9781613727805)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

One Thing

review 1: Oh my god! So freaking ADORABLE!!! I just plain loved this book and was pulling for these characters and their insanely neurotic lives. Everybody involved in this story were just so wonderfully quirky and not the usual norm. I loved the story and the characters so much I’m even willing to throw away the one little niggle of “Really???” that ran through my head reading this story. I mean really, are you going to leave your newborn baby daughter with a man you know absolutely nothing about just because you’re desperate and he lives in the same building? Pushed the bounds of believability for me a little bit, but Rue and Erik were just so wonderfully lovely together I didn’t care after the first little bit.Rue Murray has always been a little bit of a playboy. ... more He’s enjoyed the “perks” of his job as a bartender at the premier gay club in his backwater home town in Wilmington, Delaware all the while plotting his escape to climes much more conducive to the lifestyle he wants. He’s putting himself through cosmetology school and is determined to move out to California once he graduates and have the life he’s always dreamed. One stupid foray into trying to determine the level of his gayness though turns all his plans upside down and leaves Rue with the one thing he never thought he’d have. Alice though is the daughter he never knew he wanted and he’s determined to be the best father she could ever want. Now if only he can find her some childcare during the day so he can continue to chase his dreams and finish school.Erik Van Nuys has never been good with people. In fact being touched freaks him out on a whole nother level. He’s spent his life organizing his world in just such a way so that he can function without devolving into panic attacks. After being evicted from the only home he’s ever known as an adult on his own, Erik finally feels like his new apartment is the sanctuary he needs it to be. Everything has it’s place and when the world gets to be too much he has his chair and a good Star Wars marathon to de-stress too. His only focus is trying to figure out how to get his writing back on track. His agent hasn’t gotten a lot of nibbles on his latest sci-fi novel but Erik is determined to keep plugging away. Writing is the only thing he’s ever been good at. The knock at his door by his neighbor carrying a baby car seat though ends up turning Erik’s carefully ordered world on its head.Oh man I just love my OCD cases! They all make me want to just cuddle them and give them all the love and adoration they could ever want. Erik is such an extreme case, but I get it. I know just how he feels wanting to often shut out the world. Course in this case the world came and invaded his space. His falling for little baby Alice though was just so cute. It may have been the money and feeling sorry for Rue that enticed him into taking the job initially, but ultimately Alice won his heart. I loved each and everyone of his little quirks. They gave Erik such personality and made him come alive for me.Rue, well Rue was just the most precious thing! I love how devoted to making a life for his daughter he was despite being ridiculously underprepared. He really doesn’t have a support system to turn to except for his best friend Dusty (who was fabulous btw!). Rue’s determined to do the best by Alice that he is capable of pulling together. I never questioned his love and devotion to Alice. It was such an innate part of who he was. I enjoyed seeing his transition from club whore into responsible father. He’s ridiculously over the top and flamboyant in the best way and of course that means he’s an aspiring hairdresser. Everything about Rue just fit the character, from his piercings to his changing hair colors. His personality was just such a force! Loved it!Dusty, well Dusty was just awesome. I loved his fragile heart and yet he has such a capacity for love and willingness to give anything Rue needed to him. His little crush on Erik was super cute for all that you knew it wasn’t going to go anywhere. After his last boyfriend you just knew Dusty needed to have that little crush to understand it was ok to like someone decent and kind.Of course Rue and Erik together were just plain sensational! That first true kiss…I about melted through the floor! I loved watching them find their feet together and how the discovered what being in a relationship truly meant. Their fears didn’t vanish over night, but yet I always felt the love between them. I especially enjoyed the way Erik would react to things, the way his brain worked and needed to process. I’m glad this was much more of a slow burn story. Time was needed for both boys to realize what they wanted from each other and how much they truly had to give. Neither guy really knew who he was and what he could offer to someone else until the need for the other became too much to deny any longer. This ended perfectly, in exactly the way it should of, and I can’t wait to read more of this series. I’m desperately hoping the next story is Dusty’s because if there is any soul that deserves to find their match it’s him. In the mean time I’m going to bask in the warmth of Rue and Erik’s love for each other and knowing that they’re perfect family will continue to stand for a long time to come. :D
review 2: Une romance adorable à ne pas manquer...une petite merveilleCette romance M/M est absolument délicieuse et à ne pas manquer, une vraie comédie romantique et vous ne pourrez que craquer pour le héros Rue Murray qui se retrouve père après une erreur d’une nuit avec l’unique femme qu’il aura essayée. C’est vif, bourré d’humour, une gaité incroyable se dégage de ce récit et les dialogues réservent de petites perles absolument irrésistibles. C’est le genre de romance légère à lire l’après-midi, blottie au coin du feu avec un thé et une tablette de chocolat. Une histoire simple qui vous fait sourire et vous met de bonne humeur et vous fait oublier qu’il fait froid dehors.Rue est gay et célibataire, il travaille comme barman dans un bar afin de payer ses cours d’esthétisme, son rêve étant de partir à Hollywood. Lors d’une soirée très arrosée, il a eu l’idée de génie de vérifier s’il était homosexuel en couchant avec une femme. Il y avait une chance sur mille de pointer juste et bingo c’est tombé sur notre héros, et quand la jeune femme en question vient lui annoncer la « bonne nouvelle » au lieu de la laisser mettre le futur bébé à l’adoption, il décide de le garder ou plutôt de la garder. Et voilà notre héros six mois plus tard qui rentre avec sa fille Alice et qui malgré la multitude de cours pris au planning familial du coin se retrouve complètement perdu devant l’ampleur de la tâche qui l’attend. Devant jongler avec ses horaires, les crèches qui ne lui conviennent pas, ses moyens financiers et les horaires de sa baby-sitter gratuite et accessoirement son meilleur ami, il décide un jour de tenter sa chance auprès de son voisin Erik Van Nuys qu’il a surnommé Monsieur Gatorade, c’est un véritable choc pour tous les deux. D’une part pour Rue qui s’attendait à voir un vénérable papy et pour Erik que la rencontre laisse sans voix.Erik est un véritable ermite, asocial et bourré de manies de vieux garçon, affublé d’un léger bégaiement en cas de stress, ne supportant pas d’être touché, sa rencontre avec Rue est épique, un tsunami pour ce pauvre homme. Auteur au bord du désespoir suite aux refus de ses derniers manuscrits, ayant été obligé de quitter sa maison refuge ne pouvant pas l’acheter, il commence tout doucement à reprendre ses marques quand Rue débarque et lui propose de garder la petite Alice. Notre pauvre écrivain, sujet aux crises de paniques dès qu’un changement survient et réfractaire au bruit le plus infime va accepter, car sa situation financière et en alerte rouge cramoisie. Ainsi commence une relation amicale haute en couleur où les passages drôles causés par les catastrophes engendrées par l’inexpérience des deux hommes succèdent à leur découverte de leur attraction mutuelle.Le style narratif alternatif est parfaitement adapté au récit, à tour de rôle nous sommes dans les pensées de Rue et d’Erik, nous faisant participer directement à la construction de leur histoire. Ces deux hommes étaient destinés à être ensemble tellement ils se complètent à la perfection. C’est une romance chaleureuse où toutes les pièces de puzzle se mettent en place en douceur comme nous aimons. less

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