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The Avondale Stories #8
Curiosity Satisfied
Mitch Edwards has it made: at twenty-nine, he’s just been named partner at one of the largest law firms in the city and he’s just bought his first house. But he has the feeling something is missing, and he’s pretty sure he knows what it is. So when the woman he’s been dating goes out of town for three weeks, he seizes the opportunity and summons the courage to visit a gay bar.
He takes Rion Murphy home, and they hit it off so well that after a few weeks of exploration on Mitch’s part, they decide to make the arrangement more permanent. But then Mitch’s past catches up with him, and it’s up to Rion to help him cope.
He takes Rion Murphy home, and they hit it off so well that after a few weeks of exploration on Mitch’s part, they decide to make the arrangement more permanent. But then Mitch’s past catches up with him, and it’s up to Rion to help him cope.
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195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2015
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August 1, 2013
I gave up 2/3rds through because I couldn't stand the telegraphic-like delivery; it's a little like reading a court transcript at times. And then, at other times, it's like reading an overly-enthusiastic Cosmo-style how-to article on gay sex. Given that the characters have sex several times a day, they must get a friction burn somewhere. And, no one, and I mean no one, would dare wake me up with a dick in my ass in the morning. I'm sorry, has anyone heard of douching, or do these guys like tootsie rolls?
--Spoiler Alert-- And let's not get started on the blatant misogyny that permeates every page of this book. This guy screws around with a woman, leads her on a string, turns gay when she's away, and then gets all huffy and puffy at her bitchy reaction. This story would have worked so much better if his jilted lover had sliced his dick off instead of just stabbing him. I had no sympathy with any of these characters except for the alleged antagonist. Poor woman. And then we find out he had a child with another woman in the past! In real life I can't stand men who use women and then turn around to proclaim, "I'm gay!", so why should I like that in the books I read.
The author makes the gay lifestyle sound like an elitist club that excludes women and working-class people. Heaven help us if being gay is all about hanging around naked with wealthy male lawyers all day.
--Spoiler Alert-- And let's not get started on the blatant misogyny that permeates every page of this book. This guy screws around with a woman, leads her on a string, turns gay when she's away, and then gets all huffy and puffy at her bitchy reaction. This story would have worked so much better if his jilted lover had sliced his dick off instead of just stabbing him. I had no sympathy with any of these characters except for the alleged antagonist. Poor woman. And then we find out he had a child with another woman in the past! In real life I can't stand men who use women and then turn around to proclaim, "I'm gay!", so why should I like that in the books I read.
The author makes the gay lifestyle sound like an elitist club that excludes women and working-class people. Heaven help us if being gay is all about hanging around naked with wealthy male lawyers all day.
September 13, 2016
This is Etienne's first novella and tenth book and, as usual, he does not disappoint.
Mitch Edwards has it made: he's just made partner in the third largest law firm in town; he's just purchased his first home, a fixer-upper in Riverside; and he has a regular routine playing racquetball three times a week with three lawyer friends. But wait, what's wrong with this picture?
Mitch has long sensed that something was missing in his life, something related to his suspicions about his sexual identity. So, while the women he's been dating off and on for a few months is out of town, Mitch visits a gay bar for the first time. More than one bar, in fact. He meets Rion Murphy, a successful Realtor, and quickly discovers what he's been missing.
However, fate throws him a curve. A couple of curves in fact.
The woman he's been dating doesn't want to move on, and this results in near-fatal violence.
Later, his past catches up with him - in spades. To go into further detail would constitute a spoiler, so we'll leave it there.
Mitch Edwards has it made: he's just made partner in the third largest law firm in town; he's just purchased his first home, a fixer-upper in Riverside; and he has a regular routine playing racquetball three times a week with three lawyer friends. But wait, what's wrong with this picture?
Mitch has long sensed that something was missing in his life, something related to his suspicions about his sexual identity. So, while the women he's been dating off and on for a few months is out of town, Mitch visits a gay bar for the first time. More than one bar, in fact. He meets Rion Murphy, a successful Realtor, and quickly discovers what he's been missing.
However, fate throws him a curve. A couple of curves in fact.
The woman he's been dating doesn't want to move on, and this results in near-fatal violence.
Later, his past catches up with him - in spades. To go into further detail would constitute a spoiler, so we'll leave it there.
November 12, 2013
The events of the book seemed to happen too quickly and too easily. Also, I had the same niggles with this book that I had with the other book that I've read by this author. In both books I've read by the author, the characters seem to be a bit snobbish. Comments are made about not being the kind of gay men who would walk in parades and about how it's rare to find "lower class" gay men in permanent, loving relationships. It comes across as elitist, and from reviews I've seen of some of the author's other work, that seems to be a theme.
March 6, 2012
CURIOSITY SATISFIED is a wonderful book, full of marvelous characters that you care about and want to end up happy (well, most of them, anyway), and well-connected plots that take you where the overall story needs to go without making the book sappy. I loved this book and can hardly wait to read the rest of Etienne’s backlist.
Please see my complete review at http://mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.... (March 6, 2012)
Please see my complete review at http://mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.... (March 6, 2012)
March 14, 2012
Read more like a screenplay than a fiction novel. Flat, and barely nothing but dialogue.
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