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From The Inside Out (2012)

by Talya Andor(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Less Than Three Press LLC

review 1: You know how there are movies that have a premise and characters that really pull you in, but sometimes there are issues with consistency that would hurt the movie it you didn't take a step back and just look at from an overall perspective? (Like Sharknado - Why does the water level change scene to scene?) This book has a little of that. I love the characters and I want them to overcome obstacles and get together and be happy. When I read a single chapter, I can get totally immersed in the characters, what they are feeling and their thought processes. If you are someone who is going to get hung up on continuity errors and would let that interfere with enjoying the character's interactions, then you might not enjoy this story as much as I did. Like, is it supposed to be fal... morel? What point in time is it- closer to dial-up modem era or smartphone era? I will think it is one, then a character gets a notification on his phone. But if you can just accept that fact that he got contacted and overlook whatever means it was by, then you can just enjoy the backbone of the story that is there. And that backbone is really great, you'll be thinking about the characters and envisioning there lives past the point of the story's end.
review 2: Having seen reviews complaining about the way this book lagged, I read it thinking that it was going to drag on. Any minute now. Surely it was going to get boring and I would start to skim. Then I realized I was 85 percent of my way through the book, and I only wanted to read more! Yes, the story is a slow build, but that's part of what makes it so lovely. It's not a wham, bam, thank you ma'am (or sir) romance where boy meets boy, they face a danger and fall into bed together. I read and love those books, too, but sometimes I want to immerse myself in something deeper, something very real and something that will pull at my heartstrings but leave me smiling in the end. That's what this story did for me. Talya Andor is incredible at creating characters I care about. She breathes life into them with interesting personalities, quirks, strengths and weaknesses that make them well-rounded people--people I really care about, like Soren and Lucas. This is definitely a character-driven story that takes its time to build a realistic relationship between two young men who are experiencing love and, in one case, sex for the first time. I think Ms. Andor did a fabulous job at bringing out all the infatuation and time-consuming lust that comes with a rush of first love, along with all the self-doubt, fear and insecurity issues that occur between two 20-year-olds trying to make a relationship work for the first time. She hit it exactly right, at least as my memory serves, and I kept reading, wanting to see how Soren and Lucas would continue to grow and mature as individuals and as lovers. There was no national treasure to find, no serial murderer to track down--just a lovely romance that grew naturally between two young men faced with the burden of everyday challenges. If you're looking for a well-written, slow-build m/m love story between two young men you'll fall a little in love with yourself, read this. less

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