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Collision Course
by K A Mitchell
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Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Paramedic Aaron Chase doesn't have anything against love, but he knows it means a lot of responsibility, like when he had to step in to raise his siblings. With the last one off to college, Aaron's anticipating enjoying life on his own terms. He certainly isn't expecting Joey Miller to accidentally drop into his life. Sexy, funny and annoyingly optimistic, Joey's tendency to get into trouble keeps sending him Aaron's way; Joey knows all about love. He's fallen in it ten times. All that experience has to count for something, right? With Aaron it's different. Joey's fallen for good.
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| A Sexy Read |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Mitchell, K.A. "Collision Course", Samhain Publishing, 2009.
A Sexy Read
Amos Lassen
Aaron and Joey are on a voyage of discovery in "Collision Course. They are both facing problems in their pasts. Aaron knows that love means responsibility and he certainly was not expecting to fall in love with Joey Miller. Joey never had a problem with falling in love; he just could not stay in love. This time he is not about to let Aaron get away.
Aaron was not looking for a relationship and he really does not want to be involved who works as a social worker in child services because of the way his life had gone. However, Joey is so open and so sweet that Aaron cannot help himself.
There is a lot of sex in this book and this could have been very distracting. I had to keep concentrating on the relationship between Aaron and Joey so I would not get swept away by all of the sexual activity. This is a long book at more than 24o pages but it does not bore. There is some very funny dialog and good emotional problems that go right along with the explicit sex.
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| Intresting story with a bit too much sex |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Collision Course takes you on a journey of discovery between Aaron and Joey. They both have their own problems about their past.
The story itself is interesting but comes a bit too short due to a lot of sex (the sex-part takes roughly about 1/4 to 1/3 of the book). For my part a bit too much sex - not that it isn't well written or varied, but it actually holds back the good story itself.
If you like lots of male/male sex mixed with an good story, you will like this book. I still enjoyed it (due to the story), but would have more with less sex and more story.
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| More sex than I expected, but overall a good read |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 7/10
PROS:
- I was hooked literally on page 1. Something exciting and dramatic happens at the VERY beginning of the book, and that scene serves to illuminate many of Joey's character traits in a sweet, amusing way.
- Joey is quirky and cute, and Aaron has just enough of an OCD complex to make him interesting but not too annoying. They also behave in matter-of-fact, believable ways: I had to chuckle when Aaron drops Joey off after their first night together and Joey says quite cheerfully (I'm paraphrasing here), "You know, you're great in bed, but a total jerk."
- The sex is hot and plentiful, and in spite of the pervasiveness of sex scenes, I didn't find them terribly monotonous. (see cons below also)
- Just like with this novel's predecessor, Diving in Deep, the relationship in this book develops gradually from attraction to affection to love in a way that I thought was realistic and pretty normal.
CONS:
- On a few occasions I had trouble keeping up with the dialogue because the characters converse as though one or both of them are on speed.
- I didn't have a problem with the AMOUNT of sex in the book, because after all, the relationship is based on nothing BUT sex at the start. It did irk me just a little that the characters sleep with each other so soon after meeting (as it always does), but the main criticism I have of the sex is that Joey...doesn't quite have a FIXATION on what it must feel like to go raw, but he's really curious. So it seemed to me like one of those things that would happen toward the end of the book once the characters have confessed their love for each other...but it doesn't happen.
- There's a big dramatic finish at the end that I felt was unnecessary. For one thing, the main story arc--two guys who are pretty determined not to fall for each other DO fall for each other--is already pretty much wrapped up. And for another, that final climactic scene doesn't last as long as I thought it should; when it ended I turned the page and thought, "Wow. The ordeal is over? Just like that?"
Overall comments: I enjoy books that are mostly about the relationship and don't focus a lot on plot, which is the case here. If you don't like a really healthy dose of sex, though, you should probably stay away from this one, because there are easily ten separate sex scenes in this 260-page book.
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| Collision Course by K.A. Mitchell |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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If you decide to read this book, plan it when you have time, since it's more than 240 pages long and probably you will not want to let it down till the end.
Joey is a spin off character from Diving in Deep: he was Noah's ex boyfriend and in that book he was in a new relationship with Mark, a leatherman with the body of a bear and the character of a teddy bear... despite the apparently happiness of that couple, when Collision Course begins, Joey has just moved in a new city and moved on his relationship with Mark. Mark is now ex boyfriend number ten... someone could think that Joey is not such a steady boyfriend. And instead he is a social worker, a man who really likes kids, someone who always cares for the other, he probably wants so much a family... is it true? or maybe Joey is fearing commitment like he is accusing his new boyfriend to do? Despite his independent attitude, for me Joey has still some personal issues to resolve before he is ready to build something steady with a partner.
Yes since Joey is always ready to jump from an ex boyfriend to a new one, and he did so also this time; the lucky chosen is Aaron, a paramedic he meets when he is involved in a car accident, the first of a series of accidents that convince Aaron that it's better if Joey remains with him till he is not again in full health. But Aaron has a pretty bad past experience with social workers and he doesn't like when Joey tries to psychoanalyze him: if Joey wants to stay with him and share his bed, good, but when it's day everyone toward their different path and not mingle with personal matters (like if sex wasn't personal...). Joey is very good to convince himself that he can accept Aaron's rules and still doing is undercover psychological diagnosis, but when he is too involved it's not easy to be an impartial judge.
As I said the story is very long and so it's not easy to summarize all the nice things that made me like it. For example, I liked that Joey, despite his curiosity, didn't use his work influence to dig on Aaron's past before the man feels the desire to talk to him. Another thing I like is that the past is the past and Joey doesn't have a magic wand to undo all the previous mistakes and turn Aaron's family in a perfect fiction happy family. And I like that the book doesn't end when Aaron and Joey discover that they love each other, since love is not the cure for all the problems, and they still have to deal with the fact that they are two independent adult, with different behavior, that need to work out a way to live together.
There is also a lot of sex, actually Joey and Aaron begin their sexual marathon day first and go on, even when they are mad at each other, even when it seems that only when they are having sex they aren't arguing. Sex between them is always easy and good, and so it's for the reader, or at least for me that I didn't skip neither one of their encounters...
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| ROAMING FOR A HOME |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Collision Course Sequel to Diving in Deep
Joey Miller is driving down the highway when a car collision happens in front of him. Trained as a first responder, Joey immediately goes into rescue mode. When Paramedic Aaron Chase arrives on the scene, the fist thing he notices is Joey and after taking care of the accident victims, Aaron gets his chance to meet Joey and show him a different kind of paramedic attention.
Joey is an upbeat "people person" who recently moved to Jacksonville and started a job doing social work for the state of Florida after another failed relationship. When Joey is injured later, the caregiver in Aaron would not allow Joey to suffer alone. Aaron is a very private man who tried to preserve a distance by not allowing Joey to meet or intermingle with his brothers and sisters, whom he had raised after his drug addicted mother left them.
This is a main focus below the waist story, filled with hilarious dialog, emotional turmoil and peppered with lots of explicit love scenes.
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