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I'm Your Man
by Timothy James Beck
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Publisher: Kensington
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| I hate to think this is the end to my characters I love |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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At first page I could not believe we were going to follow Blaine Dunhill for this full book. During the first book, "It Had To Be You", Blaine was a main character and during book 2, "He's The One", he faded to the background. I was worried because I was not sure I wanted to be a part of Blaine's drama again. I however by the end of the first chapter was in love with all of my family of characters again. I cried with Blaine and even learned a few things about myself. I do not think you can understand how the team of writers that make Timothy James Beck (4 writers) can make these characters attach themselves to your heart until you read the three books in this series. I am sold on this writer and will be happy to take any journey with them. I just hope they bring back the Wisconsin/New York family I love sometime in the future.
I say this is a series that is a true gay soap opera with plenty of romance and inner soul searching. Please pick these books up for the summer and enjoy as much as I do.
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| Great Light Reading |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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OK, I admit to being a bit of a snob. Not that I am in to high art, but I always liked to think of myself as above the new glut of mass market gay paperbacks. This series of books, and you should read all three, proves me wrong. They are well written and highly entertaining. I was compelled to move on from one book to the next, and was disappointed when I hit the end of the series.
Then came the real mindblower. At the back of this entry in the series, it comes out that the author of the book is actually authorS! Four of them who write together via mail. I wish I had known this before hand, as I would have looked for changes in voice - in retrospect, it all feels seamless.
Go for it, and have a good time.
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| Blaine and Daniel broke up?!? |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is the third book. I could not believe it when I was reading that Daniel and Blaine broke up. I think that this book is true to life in many ways. I can really see this happening in the gay world. Even my straight friends could related to it.
For a while I was mad at Blaine for not just telling Daniel how he felt. We go on this roller coaster ride with them. The part of the book that Daniel and Blaine go to the fundraiser that Blaines assistiant doesn't want him to go to made me cry. When the assistaint tells Daniel how much Princess 2DI4 ment to her. I felt like Daniel for a moment.
I hope that the writing team of Timothy James Beck get the chance to write more stories about these friends. I feel like it's about time that there are gay novels for adults to read that are filled with characters that we can relate to.
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| Time to Grow Up |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Hunky, cocky Blaine found the love of his life -- and threw him away by over-reacting to some news his honey should have told him himself. Daniel plays his cards too close to his chest and lost his honey when he withheld important information he should have shared early on. They were both thoroughly guilty for the break-up: one made stupid, inaccurate assumptions when he heard part of the information his honey withheld from him. Both remained deeply in love with the other, but neither had the courage to say "I'm sorry" and bring about the reconciliation. I was so frustrated with the inability of either to start the inevitable conversation and the dependency of the plot line on neither communicating well. Yet, by the end of the book, I'd decided that it was better that they didn't reconcile quickly, because the pain and aloneness forced Blaine to grow up (as Daniel told him to do). One of the joys of the book (in addition to the final scenes) was watching Blaine learn about himself and grow to be a big enough man to deserve Daniel at the end. I look forward to the future books in this universe.
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| Sequel Not As Good |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This book picks up where IT HAD TO BE YOU left off. As a sequel to IT HAD TO BE YOU, the author fleshed out the character Blaine Dunhill and made him the primary focus of the plot line. The saga of the star-crossed lovers, Daniel and Blaine takes an annoying turn in the story. Daniel and Blaine are alienated from each other, appear to have broken up as a couple, and are attempting to juggle their shared friends while proceeding with their own lives. Their effort to succeed on both fronts, friends and self, are confounded by a pregnancy, a wedding, an evil ex-wife, a wicked gossip columnist, and, unfortunately, the rather mercurial and explosive personality Daniel has devleoped. In the first book, Daniel was a very sympathetic figure; however, in this "episode" of the Daniel-Blaine love epic, Daniel becomes a character who is totally unlikeable. Blaine is, as I said earlier, "fleshed out", however his character becomes annoyingly tepid when dealing with Daniel.
I'M YOUR MAN does explore some interesting new areas such as gay parenting, corporate posturing, the soap opera "industry", transgenderism, and contemporary "coming out tactics". These areas were so engaging that I, as a reader, would like to see how they develop within the context of another sequel. It's time for Daniel-and-Blaine to "grow up", move beyond back biting and quibbling, and take on some of the areas eluded to earlier. I do believe if Mr. Beck writes another "episode" or "chapter" to this story, he will most assuredly have a winner.
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