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Follow Jesse and Will through the years as their relationship grows. In Another Way, Jesse Ross seems happy with his college sweetheart and normal life, but on the side, he’s having an affair with Dom Will Anderson. When Will admits to wanting more, Jesse has to admit the truth, to himself and to everyone around him. Three years later, in Of Being Yours, and Will and Jesse appear to have a happy relationship, but an accident exposes the cracks in their foundation. Can they get over the trauma and piece their lives, and love, back together? In To Say I Love You, Jesse and Will have come through life’s ups and downs stronger and happier, but the unexpected death of Jesse’s mom upsets their happy-ever-after yet again. Back in Jesse’s hometown and struggling to reconcile their relationship with Jesse’s family, can they find their way back to the romance they’ve been fighting for all these years?
- GenresM M Romance
643 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 23, 2016
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About the author
Anna Martin
48 books478 followersAnna Martin is from a picturesque seaside village in the south west of England. After spending most of her childhood making up stories, she studied English Literature at university before attempting to turn her hand as a professional writer.
Apart from being physically dependent on her laptop, she is enthusiastic about writing and producing local grassroots theatre (especially at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she can be found every summer), travelling, learning to play the ukulele, and Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk.
Although her most recent work is in the LGBT romance genre, in the past Anna has worked on a variety of different projects including short stories, drabbles, flash fiction, fan fiction, plays for both children and adults, and poetry. She has written novels in the Teen or Young Adult genre, Romance and Fantasy novels.
Anna is, by her own admission, almost unhealthily obsessed with books. The library she has amassed is both large and diverse; "My favourite books," she says, "are 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie Collins, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and 'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood." She also owns multiple copies of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park books and re-reads the Harry Potter novels with almost startling regularity.
Anna claims her entire career is due to the love, support, pre-reading and creative ass-kicking provided by her closest friend Jennifer. Jennifer refuses to accept any responsibility for anything Anna has written.
Apart from being physically dependent on her laptop, she is enthusiastic about writing and producing local grassroots theatre (especially at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she can be found every summer), travelling, learning to play the ukulele, and Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk.
Although her most recent work is in the LGBT romance genre, in the past Anna has worked on a variety of different projects including short stories, drabbles, flash fiction, fan fiction, plays for both children and adults, and poetry. She has written novels in the Teen or Young Adult genre, Romance and Fantasy novels.
Anna is, by her own admission, almost unhealthily obsessed with books. The library she has amassed is both large and diverse; "My favourite books," she says, "are 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie Collins, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and 'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood." She also owns multiple copies of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park books and re-reads the Harry Potter novels with almost startling regularity.
Anna claims her entire career is due to the love, support, pre-reading and creative ass-kicking provided by her closest friend Jennifer. Jennifer refuses to accept any responsibility for anything Anna has written.
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August 23, 2017
4.25 stars from me, a whopper of an anthology and I have to be honest and say that the only reason it came up on my radar is that this series is the particular favourite of one of my fave characters...Alex from the Collars & Cuffs Vol. 1 series by K.C. Wells. I really enjoyed reading about Will and Jesse too, although I do think it dragged a little in the middle and there may have been some skipping then. I really liked that all the marriage proposals finally came to fruition.....😀
September 23, 2016
A Trio of Lovely Stories
The Another Way bundle is the complete story of Will and Jesse from start to finish. It was lovely to be able to follow them through their trials and tribulations. While I have rated the bundle at 3.5 stars, I have also individually rated each book in the below review.
The first book is Another Way, where Jesse is sneaking around on his girlfriend in order to fulfill his need to submit, but Dom Will wants more than secret Jesse. He’s fallen for his sub and wants a happily ever after with him. Unfortunately, there are a multitude of obstacles for both of them to overcome before that could ever be an option. Most don’t like the cheating aspect, but it is an important part of Jesse’s self-discovery, so I didn’t mind it so much. This book contains BDSM of the lighter variety, and while the scenes are definitely erotic, they are also tempered by scenes where the two are making love without power exchanges (which are just as erotic). Both men are damaged, and there is significant character growth as they stumble through the vagaries of life. I enjoyed the very real struggle that Jesse faced in deciding to embrace the other side of his bisexuality. I rate this book at 4.5 stars.
The second book, Of Being Yours, picks up three years later. Jesse and Will have settled happily into their relationship and have definitive lines between BDSM and their relationship. Jesse’s POV provides clear delineation between his Master and Will as his boyfriend. This book starts off with a whiz bang, but fairly quickly devolves into muddy waters. A stunning submission scene occurs in chapter one that I thought was going to demonstrate the direction of the book. Unfortunately, there was instead a heavy focus on a secondary set of characters that really detracted from Jesse and Will’s story. Character growth is therefore stunted for most of the book, but does pick up toward the end. I liked that the two men bump into Jesse’s ex and the encounter that occurs. It offered closure on her character in a lovely way. I also very much appreciated that the ending was done with care and didn’t rush to an “everything’s perfect” conclusion. While I wasn’t overly thrilled with all aspects of this book, I still enjoyed it enough to rate it at 3.5 stars.
The final book in the bundle is To Say I Love You. Now six years into their relationship, Jesse and Will have created a happy world for themselves in Seattle. When Jesse’s mother dies suddenly, everything they know is thrown into turmoil. Returning to Georgia to help his father and sister, Jesse is at a loss on what he can do. Will surprises Jesse with a house very close to his childhood home that gives Jesse and his dad the opportunity to further bond and take their minds off their grief. Unfortunately, Will’s ability to work in Georgia means he’s physically in Atlanta most of the week, so the two don’t get much time together. I thought that would create enormous scenes of intimacy and growth, but it didn’t pan out that way. While this book contains a great deal of drama, it’s written in such a way that it isn’t particularly captivating. The plot had the potential to be astounding, so I was disappointed in the execution. I was happy to watch the two dealing with outside issues that forced them to reevaluate their own relationship, I just wish it would have been a bit more dramatic. This book felt so different to the first two that I sometimes wondered if it was actually penned by Anna Martin. It’s an okay book, the characters are much more mature (expected after six years together). Their chemistry remains palpable, the BDSM was incredibly hot and steamy, and by the end, I was thrilled that the two were starting the next chapter of their lives. I rate this book at 3 stars.
ARC was provided in exchange for an honest review by Divine Magazine.
**Same worded review will appear on Goodreads, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.**
The Another Way bundle is the complete story of Will and Jesse from start to finish. It was lovely to be able to follow them through their trials and tribulations. While I have rated the bundle at 3.5 stars, I have also individually rated each book in the below review.
The first book is Another Way, where Jesse is sneaking around on his girlfriend in order to fulfill his need to submit, but Dom Will wants more than secret Jesse. He’s fallen for his sub and wants a happily ever after with him. Unfortunately, there are a multitude of obstacles for both of them to overcome before that could ever be an option. Most don’t like the cheating aspect, but it is an important part of Jesse’s self-discovery, so I didn’t mind it so much. This book contains BDSM of the lighter variety, and while the scenes are definitely erotic, they are also tempered by scenes where the two are making love without power exchanges (which are just as erotic). Both men are damaged, and there is significant character growth as they stumble through the vagaries of life. I enjoyed the very real struggle that Jesse faced in deciding to embrace the other side of his bisexuality. I rate this book at 4.5 stars.
The second book, Of Being Yours, picks up three years later. Jesse and Will have settled happily into their relationship and have definitive lines between BDSM and their relationship. Jesse’s POV provides clear delineation between his Master and Will as his boyfriend. This book starts off with a whiz bang, but fairly quickly devolves into muddy waters. A stunning submission scene occurs in chapter one that I thought was going to demonstrate the direction of the book. Unfortunately, there was instead a heavy focus on a secondary set of characters that really detracted from Jesse and Will’s story. Character growth is therefore stunted for most of the book, but does pick up toward the end. I liked that the two men bump into Jesse’s ex and the encounter that occurs. It offered closure on her character in a lovely way. I also very much appreciated that the ending was done with care and didn’t rush to an “everything’s perfect” conclusion. While I wasn’t overly thrilled with all aspects of this book, I still enjoyed it enough to rate it at 3.5 stars.
The final book in the bundle is To Say I Love You. Now six years into their relationship, Jesse and Will have created a happy world for themselves in Seattle. When Jesse’s mother dies suddenly, everything they know is thrown into turmoil. Returning to Georgia to help his father and sister, Jesse is at a loss on what he can do. Will surprises Jesse with a house very close to his childhood home that gives Jesse and his dad the opportunity to further bond and take their minds off their grief. Unfortunately, Will’s ability to work in Georgia means he’s physically in Atlanta most of the week, so the two don’t get much time together. I thought that would create enormous scenes of intimacy and growth, but it didn’t pan out that way. While this book contains a great deal of drama, it’s written in such a way that it isn’t particularly captivating. The plot had the potential to be astounding, so I was disappointed in the execution. I was happy to watch the two dealing with outside issues that forced them to reevaluate their own relationship, I just wish it would have been a bit more dramatic. This book felt so different to the first two that I sometimes wondered if it was actually penned by Anna Martin. It’s an okay book, the characters are much more mature (expected after six years together). Their chemistry remains palpable, the BDSM was incredibly hot and steamy, and by the end, I was thrilled that the two were starting the next chapter of their lives. I rate this book at 3 stars.
ARC was provided in exchange for an honest review by Divine Magazine.
**Same worded review will appear on Goodreads, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.**
September 20, 2016
This is first book I have read by Anna Martin and I have to say I think it was the perfect book to start with. I can say after reading this series bundle set that Anna Martin is an extremely talented author.
Jesse and Will totally captured my heart 100 percent. These two are really just amazing and their relationship together is more so.
The first book is primarily based around Jesse and Will coming together and all the roadblocks that had to face with starting a relationship and being in a Dom/sub relationship also. It also did not help that Jesse was in a relationship with a woman when they both started to feel more for each other outside of the Dom/sub relationship that they started in. It really took a toll on both men while Jesse came to terms with ending that relationship to be with Will. Will was there to help Jesse how he could , which made me like Will that much more because other then telling Jesse how he felt about him, Will never pressured Jesse and let him know he would support Jesse no matter what he decided.
The second book picks up a couple of years into their relationship. To both men they felt that everything was good between them but being comfortable in your relationship can be deceiving and both men found this out after they were in a car accident and was both hurt. Will started questioning himself about continuing their Dom/sub relationship because he felt out of contol after the wreck. The wreck itself left a few physical injuries but the emotional scars are the ones that just about destroyed not only their Dom/sub relationship, but their personal one also. Both men had to come together to figure out where their relationship was going wrong and if they could get it back.
The third book much like the second is set further in the future. They have been together now for seven years and they both know that things are always going to change but it is in how we deal with change that will determine how the relationship will progress. Will is doing everything he can in this book to help Jesse come to terms with losing his mother. Losing Jesse's mom through him in a tailspin and Will realizes that Hesse needs the time with his remaining family to get back on equal footing. Will surprises Jesse by getting them a house close to Jesse's family so they can stay as long as needed. Things seem to be going good but as always life has a way of throwing curveballs at them. These come in the form of temptation. The question is, how will they both go about handling it.
I really love that Anna Martin made this book a truly believable read. Reading this book was as if reading a true story about two men's lives and that is one of the things I loved most about it. I also loved that Jesse and Will had to face real life problems not only together but separately also. It made their characters more relatable and I loved that. This was truly an amazing read and I would definitely recommend that it be read by others if they have not already read it.
Was given this galley copy for free for an open and honest review
Jesse and Will totally captured my heart 100 percent. These two are really just amazing and their relationship together is more so.
The first book is primarily based around Jesse and Will coming together and all the roadblocks that had to face with starting a relationship and being in a Dom/sub relationship also. It also did not help that Jesse was in a relationship with a woman when they both started to feel more for each other outside of the Dom/sub relationship that they started in. It really took a toll on both men while Jesse came to terms with ending that relationship to be with Will. Will was there to help Jesse how he could , which made me like Will that much more because other then telling Jesse how he felt about him, Will never pressured Jesse and let him know he would support Jesse no matter what he decided.
The second book picks up a couple of years into their relationship. To both men they felt that everything was good between them but being comfortable in your relationship can be deceiving and both men found this out after they were in a car accident and was both hurt. Will started questioning himself about continuing their Dom/sub relationship because he felt out of contol after the wreck. The wreck itself left a few physical injuries but the emotional scars are the ones that just about destroyed not only their Dom/sub relationship, but their personal one also. Both men had to come together to figure out where their relationship was going wrong and if they could get it back.
The third book much like the second is set further in the future. They have been together now for seven years and they both know that things are always going to change but it is in how we deal with change that will determine how the relationship will progress. Will is doing everything he can in this book to help Jesse come to terms with losing his mother. Losing Jesse's mom through him in a tailspin and Will realizes that Hesse needs the time with his remaining family to get back on equal footing. Will surprises Jesse by getting them a house close to Jesse's family so they can stay as long as needed. Things seem to be going good but as always life has a way of throwing curveballs at them. These come in the form of temptation. The question is, how will they both go about handling it.
I really love that Anna Martin made this book a truly believable read. Reading this book was as if reading a true story about two men's lives and that is one of the things I loved most about it. I also loved that Jesse and Will had to face real life problems not only together but separately also. It made their characters more relatable and I loved that. This was truly an amazing read and I would definitely recommend that it be read by others if they have not already read it.
Was given this galley copy for free for an open and honest review
April 8, 2017
Another Way.... (Another Way #1-3) by Anna Martin
4.5 stars
M/M BDSM
Triggers: open relationship, BDSM relationship Dom/sub, car crash
I was given this book for an honest review by Wicked Reads.
I was given the second book in this series at a previous time and there is a review for just that book. However, this will be an updated review of that book, but along with the other two that were in this bundle.
In book one, we are just starting in the glimpse of the relationship between Will and Jesse. They have had a relationship for a while, but when things begin to develop in to something more, both Will and Jesse need to take some time to understand what they want from their developing relationship and whether or not they are wiling to take the risk that comes with opening their hearts. Their relationship is just beginning and we get to see how they begin and a few instances where they both turn to their mentor, who is in an open relationship herself. Will is trying to figure out why he has begun to have an interest in Jesse and Laura, Jesse's old Domme Laura tries to help them navigate their new situation.
In book two, there is better heat, especially now that I understand more about how they get together. The relationship issues seem more cohesive and the dynamic of their relationship seems more organic. When the accident occurs, it still seems a little more dramatic - it will still hard to witness their complete breakdown. When all was said and done, I felt that Will had been incredibly selfish and immature. Despite his being "the Dom", in this particular aspect, this was less about their BDSM relationship and more about themselves.
In book three, the dynamic between Jesse and Will begins to evolve. The explore a similar dynamic that Laura and her husband share. However, with communication issues, old self-consciousness and self-esteem issues creeping in and old doubts, things start down the path in a wrong way. Despite those hiccups, Will and Jesse seem to find some kind of happy medium. In the end, they get their happily ever ending, but it seems that the ending is slightly abrupt.
Overall, this was a good series.
4.5 stars
M/M BDSM
Triggers: open relationship, BDSM relationship Dom/sub, car crash
I was given this book for an honest review by Wicked Reads.
I was given the second book in this series at a previous time and there is a review for just that book. However, this will be an updated review of that book, but along with the other two that were in this bundle.
In book one, we are just starting in the glimpse of the relationship between Will and Jesse. They have had a relationship for a while, but when things begin to develop in to something more, both Will and Jesse need to take some time to understand what they want from their developing relationship and whether or not they are wiling to take the risk that comes with opening their hearts. Their relationship is just beginning and we get to see how they begin and a few instances where they both turn to their mentor, who is in an open relationship herself. Will is trying to figure out why he has begun to have an interest in Jesse and Laura, Jesse's old Domme Laura tries to help them navigate their new situation.
In book two, there is better heat, especially now that I understand more about how they get together. The relationship issues seem more cohesive and the dynamic of their relationship seems more organic. When the accident occurs, it still seems a little more dramatic - it will still hard to witness their complete breakdown. When all was said and done, I felt that Will had been incredibly selfish and immature. Despite his being "the Dom", in this particular aspect, this was less about their BDSM relationship and more about themselves.
In book three, the dynamic between Jesse and Will begins to evolve. The explore a similar dynamic that Laura and her husband share. However, with communication issues, old self-consciousness and self-esteem issues creeping in and old doubts, things start down the path in a wrong way. Despite those hiccups, Will and Jesse seem to find some kind of happy medium. In the end, they get their happily ever ending, but it seems that the ending is slightly abrupt.
Overall, this was a good series.
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