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Being part of an Olympic skating pair should be excitement enough for one life, but for Erika that's only the beginning. Her skating partner, Tom Alan, is her ex-husband, who fell in love with former British ice dancer Milo, and all three of them live together and raise her daughter, whose father is Erika's ex-boyfriend, Bill, a rabid hockey fan who is old friends with Milo.
As if that's not enough, Erika still loves Bill, loves Tom Alan, and might just love Milo, too. Add a couple of troubled teenagers to the pile, and suddenly training for the Olympics is the easy part. But Erika's never been a fan of conventional, and one way or another the four of them will find a way to make their strange tangle of love, sex, and family work.
As if that's not enough, Erika still loves Bill, loves Tom Alan, and might just love Milo, too. Add a couple of troubled teenagers to the pile, and suddenly training for the Olympics is the easy part. But Erika's never been a fan of conventional, and one way or another the four of them will find a way to make their strange tangle of love, sex, and family work.
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56 books10 followersDavid Connor lives in a small town in New York with his dog, Max and a cat named Mrs. Fat Pants. His grade school English teacher, after reading one of David's stories, suggested David write for As the World Turns someday. Books, magazine articles (including the soap mags), the stage, and even radio, he has done just about everything except write for daytime TV. He is still hopeful –as long as there are still some left.
David's vivid imagination refuses to shut down even when he sleeps. His dream life is far more interesting than his real life, and is often the genesis of plot lines for his stories. If you'd like to contact him, look him up on Facebook. He will update his status after his nap.
David's vivid imagination refuses to shut down even when he sleeps. His dream life is far more interesting than his real life, and is often the genesis of plot lines for his stories. If you'd like to contact him, look him up on Facebook. He will update his status after his nap.
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May 15, 2018
Transitions by David Connor
Title - Transitions
Author - David Connor
Published - Aug '17
Publisher - Less Than Three Press
Genre - #LGBTQIA
Pages - 334
Price on Amazon - Paperback - £13.67 Kindle - £5.29
ISBN - 1684311047
Erika is part of an Olympic skating pair. Her partner is her ex-husband who fell in love with a British ice dancer called Milo. Now the three of them live together and they raise Erika's daughter who's to complicate even more father is Erika's ex-boyfriend Bill who is Milo's old friend.
This is one complicated love square. This is a complicated book with polyamorous characters, with all walks of sexual orientations involved, with each character trying to find their way and their own identity.
A great read, an interesting plot, easy to read, if at times slightly complicated trying to remember who's who and who's with who. (Wow that was a lot of who's)
A brilliant way to show off a different family dynamic and a different family unit compared to the 'normal' mum, dad and 2.5 kids that society says is the ideal family unit. A refreshing view on different ways families work.
Thank You to NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Rating - Four out of Five Stars
Would I Read Again? - Yes
Would I Recommend? - Yes
Would I read other books by the same author? - Yes
Reviews for this book can be found on:
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Title - Transitions
Author - David Connor
Published - Aug '17
Publisher - Less Than Three Press
Genre - #LGBTQIA
Pages - 334
Price on Amazon - Paperback - £13.67 Kindle - £5.29
ISBN - 1684311047
Erika is part of an Olympic skating pair. Her partner is her ex-husband who fell in love with a British ice dancer called Milo. Now the three of them live together and they raise Erika's daughter who's to complicate even more father is Erika's ex-boyfriend Bill who is Milo's old friend.
This is one complicated love square. This is a complicated book with polyamorous characters, with all walks of sexual orientations involved, with each character trying to find their way and their own identity.
A great read, an interesting plot, easy to read, if at times slightly complicated trying to remember who's who and who's with who. (Wow that was a lot of who's)
A brilliant way to show off a different family dynamic and a different family unit compared to the 'normal' mum, dad and 2.5 kids that society says is the ideal family unit. A refreshing view on different ways families work.
Thank You to NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Rating - Four out of Five Stars
Would I Read Again? - Yes
Would I Recommend? - Yes
Would I read other books by the same author? - Yes
Reviews for this book can be found on:
Amazon (UK) under Lu's Reviews
Goodreads,
Net Galley (If a NetGalley Book)
My Blogs at http://www.readingbeyondobsession.co.uk/
www.lusreviewsblog.wordpress.com
Links to this review can be found at:
Twitter: @lusreviews
Facebook: @lusreviews
Instagram: lusreviews
August 23, 2017
Well, I can't say I've ever read a book about polyamorous figure skaters trying to mentor teenagers and figure out their own sexual identities before, but. This was definitely a good first.
Plot
Erika is in love with two men: Tom Alan (her gay ex-husband) and Billy (her supposedly straight ex-boyfriend, and father of her daughter). But Tom Alan has a boyfriend named Milo now. But he and Milo are still living with Erika, which makes it hard for her to forget her feelings for him. As for Billy, he's friends with Milo and the father of Erika's daughter, and still very much around. So Erika can't exactly forget about him either. Oh, and Billy might be into Milo too. But he's also kind of jealous of how Erika acts like she is still Tom Alan's significant other.
Meanwhile, all four of them are trying to mentor two young hockey skaters named Kensuke and Jesse. Both of whom require more mentoring in figuring out their sexual orientation and their relationships than they do with skating.
Things I Liked
-All the relationship negotiation. I like when people talk through their feelings for each other, and the foursome here definitely do a lot of that.
-Tom Alan's nickname for Erika, "Flower". For some reason I liked that because it wasn't as cutesy as it sounded--what it meant to them was that in figure skating the man is the stem and the woman is the flower of a plant. It made it feel graceful whenever he called her that.
-The fact that some characters were actually confused about their sexuality instead of being absolutely certain, because sexuality is a confusing thing.
-Author's voice is easy to read, and the pacing kept me going.
Things I Didn't Like
-There wasn't as much figure skating as I was hoping--it was more of a side element.
-The fact that pretty much every scene was people talking to each other about roughly the same things over and over again. Sometimes it felt like the book was going around in circles.
-There was only one major female character, which you know going in, but can be kind of suffocating when there are five major male characters running around.
Overall
Good book, would recommend if you like relationship negotiation and polyamory. Even the parts that I didn't like were very subjective--the writing style I thought was good, and the characters were well developed.
I received an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Plot
Erika is in love with two men: Tom Alan (her gay ex-husband) and Billy (her supposedly straight ex-boyfriend, and father of her daughter). But Tom Alan has a boyfriend named Milo now. But he and Milo are still living with Erika, which makes it hard for her to forget her feelings for him. As for Billy, he's friends with Milo and the father of Erika's daughter, and still very much around. So Erika can't exactly forget about him either. Oh, and Billy might be into Milo too. But he's also kind of jealous of how Erika acts like she is still Tom Alan's significant other.
Meanwhile, all four of them are trying to mentor two young hockey skaters named Kensuke and Jesse. Both of whom require more mentoring in figuring out their sexual orientation and their relationships than they do with skating.
Things I Liked
-All the relationship negotiation. I like when people talk through their feelings for each other, and the foursome here definitely do a lot of that.
-Tom Alan's nickname for Erika, "Flower". For some reason I liked that because it wasn't as cutesy as it sounded--what it meant to them was that in figure skating the man is the stem and the woman is the flower of a plant. It made it feel graceful whenever he called her that.
-The fact that some characters were actually confused about their sexuality instead of being absolutely certain, because sexuality is a confusing thing.
-Author's voice is easy to read, and the pacing kept me going.
Things I Didn't Like
-There wasn't as much figure skating as I was hoping--it was more of a side element.
-The fact that pretty much every scene was people talking to each other about roughly the same things over and over again. Sometimes it felt like the book was going around in circles.
-There was only one major female character, which you know going in, but can be kind of suffocating when there are five major male characters running around.
Overall
Good book, would recommend if you like relationship negotiation and polyamory. Even the parts that I didn't like were very subjective--the writing style I thought was good, and the characters were well developed.
I received an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
November 9, 2017
3.75 stars. Just from reading the blurb, I figured I'd be in over my head in no time. And I wasn't wrong. There are straights, gays, and bisexuals here, a glorious rainbow of orientations and polyamory. And yet they all somehow seem to gel. Fascinating. The writing flows well, the pace could be tighter, the dialogue is realistic if not altogether necessary all the time, and the characters feel real with their emotional and sexual baggage, tying them all together. There are also some important, current, heavy issues dealt here, like sexual and gender confusion, bisexuality, teen suicide, prejudice and discrimination, etc. Despite that, though, sometimes it felt like people had already been through the same discussion, so it got a little repetitive. The polyamorous relationship wasn't turned into a spectacle or lurid erotica. These were real people trying to manage their feelings for each other. All in all, an interesting twist on the old romance theme.
September 8, 2017
A complicated story involving a different definition of family and love.
December 28, 2017
Great poly romance. I really enjoyed the character Erika.
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