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Adam & I
While backpacking in Australia Tommy meets and falls for Adam, a successful surgeon with a lavish lifestyle. Eager to start a family he may even have found the path of his future. But there is a problem: Adam already has a partner, and he’s lying to both of them.
When Tommy is offered a job in London Adam must deal with his mental health. For their romance to thrive, both men must reevaluate their views on love, life and relationships. As they find themselves a world apart, can there be a happy ending to their journey?
Adam & I is a romance novel that will take you on a trip around the globe as the plot unfolds and secrets come to light. It tells the surprising but true story of three years of the author’s life.
Tagline: A Global Romance of Lies & Deceit
When Tommy is offered a job in London Adam must deal with his mental health. For their romance to thrive, both men must reevaluate their views on love, life and relationships. As they find themselves a world apart, can there be a happy ending to their journey?
Adam & I is a romance novel that will take you on a trip around the globe as the plot unfolds and secrets come to light. It tells the surprising but true story of three years of the author’s life.
Tagline: A Global Romance of Lies & Deceit
438 pages, Paperback
Published June 5, 2022
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January 14, 2022
Pros: this memoir has all the ingredients for a heart tug! I was intrigued on various levels from the nomadic lifestyle Tommy (MC) lives, his dream of settling down (isn't that what we all want?), and the lengths he goes to honor both. The faithfulness he has to these things kept me locked in at all times. The distance, deceit, and devotion this book has makes it unique, as I've never read one quite like it before!
I thoroughly enjoyed the character development the most outside of the plot itself. It appears that everyone has a place, as does every scene, and it's stitched together in such a way that I felt I was processing Tommy's emotions with him as he was. It was another, "just one more chapter... Yeah right!"
Cons: if you've been manipulated, lied to, or cheated on in past relationships, you may be a bit uncomfortable, as all these things are things you'll run into. They didn't bother me, but they did increase my empathy and understanding for those who are involved in such cases.
Conclusion : this is a book I would gladly own and recommend to anyone who is looking to expand their empathy, witness significant growth from a person who's actually experienced it, and who is also enamored with big romantic gestures, such as Adam is known for doing.
I thoroughly enjoyed the character development the most outside of the plot itself. It appears that everyone has a place, as does every scene, and it's stitched together in such a way that I felt I was processing Tommy's emotions with him as he was. It was another, "just one more chapter... Yeah right!"
Cons: if you've been manipulated, lied to, or cheated on in past relationships, you may be a bit uncomfortable, as all these things are things you'll run into. They didn't bother me, but they did increase my empathy and understanding for those who are involved in such cases.
Conclusion : this is a book I would gladly own and recommend to anyone who is looking to expand their empathy, witness significant growth from a person who's actually experienced it, and who is also enamored with big romantic gestures, such as Adam is known for doing.
March 12, 2023
Reality is sometimes crazier than fiction. And this book made me think that it's good when someone decides to share a story like this one even thinking that it's unique because you never know that a number of people across the world might have lived similar experiences, and they moved on or maybe they are trying to heal now.
Almost all elements of the story are something that I have experienced directly or indirectly so all of it felt familiar, the only big exception being that I'm obviously not a gay man.
I also relate with the feeling of "my life is so crazy that it could be a book" and "maybe writing it all down would be therapeutic".
Even if you can't relate, it's a very good story. Don't read it expecting a traditional romance but focusing on the main character's journey.
Maybe, it would be great to have a sequel one day about it.
Almost all elements of the story are something that I have experienced directly or indirectly so all of it felt familiar, the only big exception being that I'm obviously not a gay man.
I also relate with the feeling of "my life is so crazy that it could be a book" and "maybe writing it all down would be therapeutic".
Even if you can't relate, it's a very good story. Don't read it expecting a traditional romance but focusing on the main character's journey.
Maybe, it would be great to have a sequel one day about it.
May 13, 2022
Adam & I brings out the best and worst of a relationship and shows you how perfect imperfectly it can be. It’s about Tommy, a lovely globetrotter, who sadly gets entangled by Adams lies.
What happens when someone constantly give empty promises but always says 'I love you'.
The edge of the real question is, how does it affect you when your partner lives and drowns in their own lies? Can you really blame someone for their mistakes if it´s about mental health? Can you really take the injustices and forgive them, forget them? What could easily be a hatred for Adam seems more like pity. Like Socrates said, 'one should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.'
This is the bitter sweet story about forgiving for your own good but never forget.
What happens when someone constantly give empty promises but always says 'I love you'.
The edge of the real question is, how does it affect you when your partner lives and drowns in their own lies? Can you really blame someone for their mistakes if it´s about mental health? Can you really take the injustices and forgive them, forget them? What could easily be a hatred for Adam seems more like pity. Like Socrates said, 'one should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.'
This is the bitter sweet story about forgiving for your own good but never forget.
August 18, 2024
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April 11, 2022
If you read the blurb about the book it is clear this is going to be an extremely sad story. And it is. The young and naïve Tommy falls for a handsome, well-educated Adam who, unfortunately for Tommy is a duplicitous sociopath... to the extreme. The book is indeed very well written. This based-on-a-true-story-by-this-author book tells the tale in a way that explains how Tommy could be duped for such a long period of time. The story has some beautiful moments with a lot of heartfelt sadness. A lot. That said, it is a very nice read.
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