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Unstoppable Force
Ethan Trent and Cale Brooks came from similar troubled pasts, but their current lives couldn't be more Ethan runs a multi-million dollar technology firm; Cale sleeps with men for money. Neither of them believe in happy-ever-after - until fate throws them together, and Ethan starts thinking about a future that Cale can't let himself imagine.
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First published November 1, 2008
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Lisa Marie Davis
23 books70 followersBorn and raised in Florida, Lisa spends her time writing and babysitting her nearly three-year-old nephew, Zach. A night owl, most of her writing gets done well after one in the morning when the rest of the world is happily sleeping.
Visit her blog at http://lisamariedavis.livejournal.com/.
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July 27, 2023
DNF @ 19%
The average rating for this tells you everything you need to know and I have no idea why/how I missed that. This was terrible on every level. The story starts with both MCs taking turns to info-dump their entire histories and that's followed by a rushed sequence of events that has escort-Cale being hired by CEO-Ethan for two weeks. Then things got worse with the author trying to make 36 year old Ethan sound sophisticated and aloof but he actually sounded like a robot. Here's an example:
"That's right. Say my name. I want to hear it."
That's not how humans talk. On the flip side, Cale was depicted as the most innocent virgin to ever exist and he's completely overcome by every single thing Ethan does. Never mind that Cale is 25 years old and has been escort for a while. But somehow, the way Ethan-The-Robot looks at him, talks to him and does things like breathe turns Ethan on like he's been doused in an aphrodisiac. The whole thing was absurd.
Sealing the deal was that the robot talk wasn't sexy at all so I wasn't interested in hanging around for the sexy times. Add in the author's choice to write the story in 3rd POV but have Cale's thoughts be written in 1st POV and I couldn't continue.
There are a few MM romances I've come across that don't deserve the shockingly low average ratings they've been given but this book absolutely deserves that low number.
The average rating for this tells you everything you need to know and I have no idea why/how I missed that. This was terrible on every level. The story starts with both MCs taking turns to info-dump their entire histories and that's followed by a rushed sequence of events that has escort-Cale being hired by CEO-Ethan for two weeks. Then things got worse with the author trying to make 36 year old Ethan sound sophisticated and aloof but he actually sounded like a robot. Here's an example:
"That's right. Say my name. I want to hear it."
That's not how humans talk. On the flip side, Cale was depicted as the most innocent virgin to ever exist and he's completely overcome by every single thing Ethan does. Never mind that Cale is 25 years old and has been escort for a while. But somehow, the way Ethan-The-Robot looks at him, talks to him and does things like breathe turns Ethan on like he's been doused in an aphrodisiac. The whole thing was absurd.
Sealing the deal was that the robot talk wasn't sexy at all so I wasn't interested in hanging around for the sexy times. Add in the author's choice to write the story in 3rd POV but have Cale's thoughts be written in 1st POV and I couldn't continue.
There are a few MM romances I've come across that don't deserve the shockingly low average ratings they've been given but this book absolutely deserves that low number.
March 2, 2009
This was just a 2.5 star OK+ for me. While sweet and saccharine, I found it a little too short to make this fairytale realistic. Ethan pays for two weeks of sex with male whore, Cale, and both fall in love with each other within 24-48 hours? I don't mind that (this IS fantasy, after all!) but the story's length did not allow for the two characters' similarity of background to be built up and as such, when the story begins, Ethan is already a successful businessman and Cale is a prostitute.
This is another book where I would have traded half the sex scenes for more plot and characterization. Everything was just too easily resolved or waved away.
This is another book where I would have traded half the sex scenes for more plot and characterization. Everything was just too easily resolved or waved away.
October 22, 2013
This was a re-read after a two year interlude.
I absolutely love a rags to riches story and Unstoppable Force definitely falls into that category. MC Cale Brooks is a high priced escort who has been purchased by wealthy self-made business man MC Ethan Trent for two weeks of unbridled sex. Cale is a man on the run from a nasty ex-pimp and Ethan prefers the company of whores because he hates the thought of developing feelings for the men he is sleeping with. Of course these two men feel a connection to one another and fall in love and the story finds them fighting off the bad guys and (each other at times) to find their glorious HEA. And they lived happily ever after, the end! Perfect!
Yes, it was too short to really get to know these boys and their stories were a bit convoluted, but suspend disbelief and go with the fairy tale and enjoy the ride. I recommend this book for any and all M/M romance fans. Short and sweet and very satisfying.
I absolutely love a rags to riches story and Unstoppable Force definitely falls into that category. MC Cale Brooks is a high priced escort who has been purchased by wealthy self-made business man MC Ethan Trent for two weeks of unbridled sex. Cale is a man on the run from a nasty ex-pimp and Ethan prefers the company of whores because he hates the thought of developing feelings for the men he is sleeping with. Of course these two men feel a connection to one another and fall in love and the story finds them fighting off the bad guys and (each other at times) to find their glorious HEA. And they lived happily ever after, the end! Perfect!
Yes, it was too short to really get to know these boys and their stories were a bit convoluted, but suspend disbelief and go with the fairy tale and enjoy the ride. I recommend this book for any and all M/M romance fans. Short and sweet and very satisfying.
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May 15, 2009This book has written "Cinderfella" all over the pages... there is also a fairy godmother in the guise of the very special male escort agency owner who matches Cinderfella alias Pretty Man Cale to Multi-Millionaire Prince Charming Ethan.
So, see, I can't be too hard with this story, since it's all about romance, and I can't not like a romance; doesn't matter if the story is unbelievable, if the cynical in me continued to say that a man like Ethan will never and never fall in love with Cale, I want the romance and I get the romance.
Ethan is a very handsome and very wealthy business man; at the beginning of his career he was a runaway guy with a skill for software and a pretty, even if rough, look. With the help of both his virtue, he manages to warm the bed of a middle age and wealthy man who in exchange, taught to Ethan how to be a successful business man. When the man moved on to another young lover, Ethan was enough skilled and independent to make his own success life. Today Ethan isn't searching for commitment, he likes to play the field, and so he usually buys the service of an escort agency when he is in the mood.
Cale is another runaway boy; escaping from an abusive stepfather who unfortunately taught to Cale that he is only worth for sex, Cale ended in the clutches of a little mafia criminal who, at his eyes, was a big treat. Managing to escape also from him, Cale now is under the shelter of fairy godmother Gwen, who sends him to Ethan. It's a match made in... bed? but Ethan pampers Cale like a prince, trying to instill a bit of confidence in the pretty man (and in this case I mean pretty as beautiful, since Cale is really beautiful even if he doesn't realize it).
A little trouble to resolve the issue of Cale's past does nothing to ruin the fairy tale atmosphere and the obviously path toward an happily ever after; if only life would be so simple...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1615812377/?...
So, see, I can't be too hard with this story, since it's all about romance, and I can't not like a romance; doesn't matter if the story is unbelievable, if the cynical in me continued to say that a man like Ethan will never and never fall in love with Cale, I want the romance and I get the romance.
Ethan is a very handsome and very wealthy business man; at the beginning of his career he was a runaway guy with a skill for software and a pretty, even if rough, look. With the help of both his virtue, he manages to warm the bed of a middle age and wealthy man who in exchange, taught to Ethan how to be a successful business man. When the man moved on to another young lover, Ethan was enough skilled and independent to make his own success life. Today Ethan isn't searching for commitment, he likes to play the field, and so he usually buys the service of an escort agency when he is in the mood.
Cale is another runaway boy; escaping from an abusive stepfather who unfortunately taught to Cale that he is only worth for sex, Cale ended in the clutches of a little mafia criminal who, at his eyes, was a big treat. Managing to escape also from him, Cale now is under the shelter of fairy godmother Gwen, who sends him to Ethan. It's a match made in... bed? but Ethan pampers Cale like a prince, trying to instill a bit of confidence in the pretty man (and in this case I mean pretty as beautiful, since Cale is really beautiful even if he doesn't realize it).
A little trouble to resolve the issue of Cale's past does nothing to ruin the fairy tale atmosphere and the obviously path toward an happily ever after; if only life would be so simple...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1615812377/?...
October 5, 2010
Good m/m romance about a successful businessman who doesn't believe in love, so he simply hires high-class prostitutes for a weekend or a few weeks. And then he hires a guy who starts to really get under his skin... and whose past isn't quite ready to let him go. This would've been a much better read if everything hadn't been tidied it up in half a chapter and an epilogue - it definitely felt rushed.
June 2, 2009
Ethan Trent is at the pinnacle of his career and his life - if truth be told. Having met the right person at a difficult phase of his life – he has made something of himself and enjoying every moment of it. Nowhere more so than in his personal life, does he take pride in knowing that he can make a choice of who to spend time with.
Having gone through the usual route to organize a young man for the night – he’s surprised by the reaction he has for one photo in particular and sets the wheels in motion to find out if the person behind the face on the photo is all that he seems to be.
Cale Brooks is doing a job, not for the love of it, but because necessity demands he stay constantly on the go, and doing what he’s always been told he was born for - is the quickest way for him to make money. When he gets a job to spend two weeks with a client, little does he know that this will be the two weeks that will change his life forever.
I have read everything that Lisa Marie Davis has produced this year like a rabid fangirl and I have yet to be disappointed. Ethan and Cale are two protagonists who have known struggle and hardship – but as in life, it’s the people you meet that make the difference.
Ethan has been lucky to meet someone along his life path and with lots of hard work, he has made it to the top, Cale on the other hand is still at the phase where he cannot have hope because he’s never had anything to hope for. With Ethan’s constant attention and determination, Cale has to make a choice, stick with the old ways or grab onto what is being offered and have the adventure of his life.
Ms. Davis knows how to deliver a story with a plot that has so much possibility I wouldn’t be surprised if we see Ethan and Cale in the future. UNSTOPPABLE FORCE is a wonderful read.
Having gone through the usual route to organize a young man for the night – he’s surprised by the reaction he has for one photo in particular and sets the wheels in motion to find out if the person behind the face on the photo is all that he seems to be.
Cale Brooks is doing a job, not for the love of it, but because necessity demands he stay constantly on the go, and doing what he’s always been told he was born for - is the quickest way for him to make money. When he gets a job to spend two weeks with a client, little does he know that this will be the two weeks that will change his life forever.
I have read everything that Lisa Marie Davis has produced this year like a rabid fangirl and I have yet to be disappointed. Ethan and Cale are two protagonists who have known struggle and hardship – but as in life, it’s the people you meet that make the difference.
Ethan has been lucky to meet someone along his life path and with lots of hard work, he has made it to the top, Cale on the other hand is still at the phase where he cannot have hope because he’s never had anything to hope for. With Ethan’s constant attention and determination, Cale has to make a choice, stick with the old ways or grab onto what is being offered and have the adventure of his life.
Ms. Davis knows how to deliver a story with a plot that has so much possibility I wouldn’t be surprised if we see Ethan and Cale in the future. UNSTOPPABLE FORCE is a wonderful read.
June 13, 2012
Ethan Trent owns a muli-million dollar technology firm and is looking for a little rr and on that front he hires a high class male prostitute for this. After looking at a photograph of handsome and desireable Cale Brooks, he knows that this is the man he would like to spend 2 weeks getting to know. Cale has been running since he was 16 years old, fist from an abusive (both physically and sexually) step-father, and then from an abusive pimp/mafia wanna-be Nick. Both these abusive men in Cale's life have left him with low self-esteem, thinking he's only good for one thing.When Nick and Cale meet, there is an attraction and a connection. Both of these young men have much in common, Ethan also had a physically abusive (not sexually) and ran away from home at 16. Trent was lucky to meet a mentor who not only helped him become the man he is today (and had a consensual relationship with) and when he had the funds he was able to purchase his mentor's company.Ethan discovers that Cale is intelligent, kind, and sensual.Cale discovers that he loves to talk to Ethan about things he has never told anyone, he is beyond attracted by Ethan.Can these two make it, and can Cale get beyond his self-doubts and low self-esteem to give love a try..Also we have the resurfacing of the abusive Nick, will he be a factor in these two mens budding relationship.This novella as some one said is a gay Pretty Woman, I enjoyed it for what it was.
June 2, 2011
I think I've sussed out what it is about Lisa Marie Davis's books that was niggling at me - not necessarily in a negative way, but niggling nevertheless. They are just like the Mills & Boon stories I used to devour as a child. Slightly formulaic - although hot sex between two guys never quite made it into the Mills & Boon I read when I was a teenager!!! - but the HEA is never in doubt and I find myself reading in quite a detached fashion.
I enjoyed Unstoppable Force but admit I can't quite figure out why they fell in love. There didn't seem to be any particular pull between them, nothing ostensibly special that made me think 'ah yes, that's why'.
I have enjoyed each one of her books that I have read but in a light, fluffy sort of 'that was a nice snack' kinda way, and pretty much forgettable straight after.
That's not a bad thing - I don't always want to read angst and hurt/comfort, sometimes I just want a simple love story. It's just I think her books are a little too light and simple - JMHO.
I enjoyed Unstoppable Force but admit I can't quite figure out why they fell in love. There didn't seem to be any particular pull between them, nothing ostensibly special that made me think 'ah yes, that's why'.
I have enjoyed each one of her books that I have read but in a light, fluffy sort of 'that was a nice snack' kinda way, and pretty much forgettable straight after.
That's not a bad thing - I don't always want to read angst and hurt/comfort, sometimes I just want a simple love story. It's just I think her books are a little too light and simple - JMHO.
July 25, 2012
That one was okay to read once but even while reading it for the first time during some parts I had the feeling that I have read them before. I missed some kind of orginality but especially the love scenes felt like stereotypes. I think books that include phrases like "become addicted to that man", "beautiful, responisve man", "the most incredible sexy sound", "burning hunger that matched his own" or "the sound fueling to his desire" are no longer for me. They feel like clichee and get boring.
Additionally I couldn't get over that "instant"-addiction.
Both combined made the book okay to read once but not for a second time.
I usually only then give two or less stars when I really have to struggle through a book or can't get over stupitidy in the characters. This time it is not so but I have decided to give only two because the whole books could have been better, the potential in the story was there but I think the author hurried through it. A bit more time, some more scenes to let them built their feelings and a bit less average sex and it would have been much better.
Additionally I couldn't get over that "instant"-addiction.
Both combined made the book okay to read once but not for a second time.
I usually only then give two or less stars when I really have to struggle through a book or can't get over stupitidy in the characters. This time it is not so but I have decided to give only two because the whole books could have been better, the potential in the story was there but I think the author hurried through it. A bit more time, some more scenes to let them built their feelings and a bit less average sex and it would have been much better.
December 24, 2010
This story reminded me a lot of "Pretty Woman" except with two male characters who came together via an arranged meeting. I love rooting for the underdog and I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm totally okay with being able to suspend some skepticism on the viability of a scene playing out in real life the way it's portrayed in a story. I want to be able to escape real life, get totally absorbed in the story, and have ridiculous hope for the HEA. Well, this book delivered all of those things in spades and I loved it!!
I was hoping fervently that Cade would get out of his current predicament and be free to live his life. I was also hoping that Ethan had finally met the man that could make him see the value in a committed relationship. Well, voila! My wishes came true and I got to experience some pretty hot m/m lovin' to boot. These things add up to a very happy camper!!!
I was hoping fervently that Cade would get out of his current predicament and be free to live his life. I was also hoping that Ethan had finally met the man that could make him see the value in a committed relationship. Well, voila! My wishes came true and I got to experience some pretty hot m/m lovin' to boot. These things add up to a very happy camper!!!
July 17, 2012
This book started out well, sexy, interesting, with much potential. Unfortunately it just got bogged down in a big cliche of hooker meets millionaire with schmaltzy results.
The sex, when it happened, was nice but, ironically, it happened too infrequently for a hooker/client hook-up book. It was a bit too clean for me.
If I never hear the words "I'm a whore, you're a whore" again it will be too soon. Seriously, it was thrown out there with alacrity.
The book was not bad, as I said when they were physical it was nice, the premise was good, as others have said Pretty Woman meets a M/M setting. Also, I'm like most people, I like to see the underdog get their chance, and both of the protgagonists were likeable, particularly Ethan. Oh, nice cover too.
Sweet, easy to read, romantic story, which could have been done better, but still nice enough for a quick read.
The sex, when it happened, was nice but, ironically, it happened too infrequently for a hooker/client hook-up book. It was a bit too clean for me.
If I never hear the words "I'm a whore, you're a whore" again it will be too soon. Seriously, it was thrown out there with alacrity.
The book was not bad, as I said when they were physical it was nice, the premise was good, as others have said Pretty Woman meets a M/M setting. Also, I'm like most people, I like to see the underdog get their chance, and both of the protgagonists were likeable, particularly Ethan. Oh, nice cover too.
Sweet, easy to read, romantic story, which could have been done better, but still nice enough for a quick read.
July 22, 2011
I think that this book is fine but not incredible.
The story begins well but in a moment it seemed a fairy tale.
I prefer the stories more real and less "fairy tales".
The novel is excellently written and the characters caraceterísticas well described.
I love this author and recommend his books are usually very romantic. If you like reading a romantic book, this is one of them.
The story begins well but in a moment it seemed a fairy tale.
I prefer the stories more real and less "fairy tales".
The novel is excellently written and the characters caraceterísticas well described.
I love this author and recommend his books are usually very romantic. If you like reading a romantic book, this is one of them.
November 13, 2014
Ethan is a a multi millionaire, then comes cale an high-class male escort who ethan hires for 2 weeks, but what they will realize at the end of the 2 weeks or less they will fall in love but that's not all. Cales past is catching up with him and all cale want to do is run but will it be different this time.
November 5, 2013
2.5 stars
September 30, 2011
Cute rent boy fairy tale.
Nothing new, good writing, insta-love. That's about it.
Not bad but nothing amazing either.
October 7, 2011
A really nice m-m romance. Well worth the read.
October 14, 2011
Is Dane going to go and punish all the other clients Cale had?
If not why punish Ethan particularly? Ho yeah, because he is the 'hero'.
If not why punish Ethan particularly? Ho yeah, because he is the 'hero'.
November 29, 2012
A patchwork of cliches...
They could have been a hetero couple with the same luck....or a Disney animation duo.
They could have been a hetero couple with the same luck....or a Disney animation duo.
March 4, 2013
2.5 rounded up
September 9, 2014
I really enjoyed this story. I wished it has been longer so we could have gotten to know them even more!
September 17, 2015
good story for what it is, a m/m Pretty Woman. a star off for several typos and one off for it being a short story that felt rushed.
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