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Broken Blue Lines
Love. Hate. Criminal Justice.
An FBI Crime Drama / LGBT+ Love Story
Nick Aster is a felon. He's also one of the FBI's most valuable consultants, and Agent John Langley's best friend and partner. When Nick is arrested and brutally assaulted, he must bring down some of the most powerful and corrupt men in the NYPD in order to survive the fallout.... and Agent Langley must defend the man he's come to love from the system they both serve.
They say the bond between law enforcement partners can be as strong as the one between couples. Agent Langley is straight and married to the love of his life. But when nursing Nick back to physical and emotional health brings the partners closer than ever, John and Nick realize they don't just love each other; they're in love.
Can an apple-pie wholesome FBI agent with a traditional marriage, a dog, and a perfect career adapt to the concept of another man joining the family? And can one man change the entire NYPD and erase a stain that has destroyed thousands of innocent lives?
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Genre: FBI crime drama
Subgenre: Gay/poly LGBTQ+ romance (love story)
Sexual content: Minimal, clean
Happy ending: Yes
Cheating?: No cheating.
Language: Contains R-rated language.
Violence: PG-13 level.
An FBI Crime Drama / LGBT+ Love Story
Nick Aster is a felon. He's also one of the FBI's most valuable consultants, and Agent John Langley's best friend and partner. When Nick is arrested and brutally assaulted, he must bring down some of the most powerful and corrupt men in the NYPD in order to survive the fallout.... and Agent Langley must defend the man he's come to love from the system they both serve.
They say the bond between law enforcement partners can be as strong as the one between couples. Agent Langley is straight and married to the love of his life. But when nursing Nick back to physical and emotional health brings the partners closer than ever, John and Nick realize they don't just love each other; they're in love.
Can an apple-pie wholesome FBI agent with a traditional marriage, a dog, and a perfect career adapt to the concept of another man joining the family? And can one man change the entire NYPD and erase a stain that has destroyed thousands of innocent lives?
~~~~~~~~
Genre: FBI crime drama
Subgenre: Gay/poly LGBTQ+ romance (love story)
Sexual content: Minimal, clean
Happy ending: Yes
Cheating?: No cheating.
Language: Contains R-rated language.
Violence: PG-13 level.
- GenresLGBTM M Romance
671 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 24, 2017
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June 12, 2018I read the first few pages to get a feel for the book since I picked it up for free on Amazon the other day and I've never read anything by this author...
Does anyone know if this was P2P White Collar fanfic? I definitely get the Neal vibe from Nick and his friend Theo sounds just like Mozzie, calling the FBI agent "Fed" (instead of "Suit" like Mozzie did) but sounding very much untrustworthy of authority. Plus, John's description in the blurb fits Peter as well.
Does anyone know if this was P2P White Collar fanfic? I definitely get the Neal vibe from Nick and his friend Theo sounds just like Mozzie, calling the FBI agent "Fed" (instead of "Suit" like Mozzie did) but sounding very much untrustworthy of authority. Plus, John's description in the blurb fits Peter as well.
August 3, 2017
On the plus side, I award the author full honors for her fortitude: to plan a story on this scale was a daring ambition, to have brought it to completion with very few typos is a heroic achievement. All the more so since the writing, though neither specially florid nor descriptive, is nothing to scoff at; the prose shows strong grammatical values and flows easily, the dialogues do not lack wit, and each character behaves distinctively with a voice of their own, even the secondary cast (full kudos for the, utterly adorable, Theo). As the novel was never meant to be a procedural drama, the sheer lack of realism which informs Nick and John's journey together in all things related to FBI and criminal justice did not bother me too much. Nor was my pleasure diminished by the great amounts of filling in the story; most readers no doubt will feel that the enormous length ought to have been trimmed by a half, yet, like what obtains for Virgil's Aeneid (si parva licet componere magnis), to have done so would have detracted from the chatoyance and complexity the author was striving to achieve. One very significant drawback has to do with Nick's being a magnet for trouble: he keeps on being showered with extremes of love (his backstory with the Sicilian mafia clan) and hate (the crooked NYPD and Department of Prisons), from which he emerges with a nearly god-like resilience. This reeks of cliché to the high heavens. As such, I found his bubbly personality to clash with what any 31 y.o., international-level felon who has spent six years in jail should be. Actually, the entire story strives too hard to strike a very over the top note; I kept thinking that things would improve and become more realistic, yet it never really happened. On the whole, one will either be charmed by the quirky universe created by the author and its 'best friends turned lovers' trope, thereby directing an indulgent eye to its defects, or balk at the sheer length and Harlequin-like trappings of this saccharine love-story; whence my relatively generous score of two stars and a half rounded off to three.
August 5, 2017
OMG! What a great story!
This story will pull you in and it will be impossible to put it down. This is not a sweet sexy love story but a hard hitting story of a felon and an FBI agent. My heart hurt through the tortures that Nick endures but the evolving love that John shows Nick is wonderful. I can't wait until the author publishes another book!
This story will pull you in and it will be impossible to put it down. This is not a sweet sexy love story but a hard hitting story of a felon and an FBI agent. My heart hurt through the tortures that Nick endures but the evolving love that John shows Nick is wonderful. I can't wait until the author publishes another book!
August 18, 2017
Clearly born of fan fic
This very clearly began as White Collar fan fiction. However, it was well developed. Nick Strauss furthest from his inspiration. He is fully developed as a character with similarities to Neal Caffrey, but he is his own person. There are a few times the name changes didn't get completed as Theo suddenly become Mozzie. There are a few places where a name change from an earlier version was missed... but the core story was good enough to overcome it. I wish Beckett had fully committed to the poly relationship. It was all oblique references with one public kiss. I really wanted to see that relationship develop.
Overall, despite being fan fix with some glaring errors that could have been caught with a read through by an editor, it was a thought provoking, enjoyable read.
This very clearly began as White Collar fan fiction. However, it was well developed. Nick Strauss furthest from his inspiration. He is fully developed as a character with similarities to Neal Caffrey, but he is his own person. There are a few times the name changes didn't get completed as Theo suddenly become Mozzie. There are a few places where a name change from an earlier version was missed... but the core story was good enough to overcome it. I wish Beckett had fully committed to the poly relationship. It was all oblique references with one public kiss. I really wanted to see that relationship develop.
Overall, despite being fan fix with some glaring errors that could have been caught with a read through by an editor, it was a thought provoking, enjoyable read.
January 26, 2018
I loved it!
This is a book of contrasts. Nick. John and Mari forge a relationship between what should be natural enemies against a backdrop of unrelenting horror, and pain, and comfort, love and acceptance.. This book engages all your emotions, and allows you to see the psychological scars that we all carry. So excuse me now, I am going back to the beginning, and read Ms. Beckett's book for the fourth time!
This is a book of contrasts. Nick. John and Mari forge a relationship between what should be natural enemies against a backdrop of unrelenting horror, and pain, and comfort, love and acceptance.. This book engages all your emotions, and allows you to see the psychological scars that we all carry. So excuse me now, I am going back to the beginning, and read Ms. Beckett's book for the fourth time!
June 30, 2019
White Collar fanfic?
This is glorified fanfiction. The books characters names actually switch to the television shows names multiple times (Peter, Mozzie and Neal). Nick (Neal Caffrey) is a pretty thief with a penchant for slim cut suits and fancy hats. Also, the FBI agent John (aka Peter) has a wife who calls him Hon. This was a long, monotonous hot mess.
This is glorified fanfiction. The books characters names actually switch to the television shows names multiple times (Peter, Mozzie and Neal). Nick (Neal Caffrey) is a pretty thief with a penchant for slim cut suits and fancy hats. Also, the FBI agent John (aka Peter) has a wife who calls him Hon. This was a long, monotonous hot mess.
June 10, 2018
WOW!
Just plain wow. Crime dramas are not my normal reading but this was absolutely fantastic. As much as I would like to think what happened to Nick could never happen, regretfully I have to acknowledge that it could. Thank you for bringing him through it all.
Just plain wow. Crime dramas are not my normal reading but this was absolutely fantastic. As much as I would like to think what happened to Nick could never happen, regretfully I have to acknowledge that it could. Thank you for bringing him through it all.
January 7, 2018
A Good Story
I enjoyed the book. I loved the Main characters. Nick was a broken man. John tried to help him. Good story.
I enjoyed the book. I loved the Main characters. Nick was a broken man. John tried to help him. Good story.
June 9, 2018
Nick and John had great chemistry, but this story dragged. Did not love it.
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September 4, 2017DNF
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