Exposure

by Edie Bryant

I'm finally going to start a new life. 

Up until now, I hadn't been living a life that made me truly happy. As soon as I finished High School I jumped into both a marriage and a career I was not fully invested in. I had always had a passion for art but I ignored it and I never had a passion for my husband but I ignored that, too. 

But that all changes now. I'm starting a new class in photography to follow my passions. And after divorcing my husband, I am ready to meet someone who I can truly fall in love with. I want the passionate love I'd always dreamed of. And although she's a bit younger than me, I feel myself falling for another student in my class, Paige. But is she falling for me?

I don't know if I believe in love anymore.

Watching my parents go through a divorce has really done a number on me. My Mom calls me daily telling me about how much she hates my father. It's sad to know the love that they had for each other died long ago... And it makes me wonder if true love can ever survive. I'm afraid of commitment, so I simply don't commit. I date around and I like it that way. 

Until I meet Rylie, an older woman in my photography class. She's beautiful, smart, mature, and I basically love everything about her. But the more I fall for her, the more afraid I become. It's hard to commit when I'm not sure if love can last, even though I really want it to.

This is a standalone lesbian romance novel with HEA ending!

171 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2018

About the author

Edie also writes under the pseudonyms Hayden Hunt (M/M) and Aimee Alesi (M/M).

Reviews

[Doreen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another translesbigay novella of instalove.

Try to picture Rylie and Paige completely exposed in this reimagined m/m to f/f novella. They meet in a photography class and create more than candid pics. After her father voices his commitment phobia to Paige, her own fears take hold. She's driven to run away from Rylie's love.

Internal dialogue comes across in incomplete sentences. The author doesn't bother to alter character pronouns from he to she. Clit subs for dick in the only sex scene. Do lesbians really leap from their first kiss to shoving a hand down someone's pants to fondle her clit? Just asking! What lesbian would be so co-depend on her hysterical father who was abusive in his marriage, embittered by divorce and manipulative as a parent? Paige's mother possesses the lone voice of reason in this crazy making mess, but she enters the storyline as an afterthought. I guess any lesbian can be daddy's little girl, but surely mom matters too? It could be that this story speaks to other readers, but it left me feeling overexposed.

[Cindy Stein · Rating 2 out of 5]

Now divorced from her male high school sweetheart and out as a lesbian, Riley enrolls in a film photography class at a local community college hoping to switch careers. There, she meets Paige, a young student who at first annoys her and then, as they get to know one another, intrigues her. The two begin a relationship but Paige has commitment issues that stem from her father's own insecurities about his own failed marriage.

The tensions here are pretty easily resolved and basically this is a lesbian romance that kind of skims the surface in terms of the writing. There's very little depth. Neither character seems to have friends or much of a life.

There's also the issue of the fact that the author transformed this book from an original novel about two gay men, so there are a few instances of pronouns not switched. Some reviewers also had problems with the sex scene not having been rewritten sufficiently. It wasn't a great sex scene, but I'm not sure the gender-switch issue was the cause.

[Heather Henkel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun story

I enjoyed reading the story. Everybody comes into relationships with baggage and you have to find your way through it to make the relationship work . I also liked the fact that Paige finally worked her way thru her issues.

[monika]

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