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Sam's Reviews by Jan Irving
When Sam Masterson, a former marine in a wheelchair, clashes with Tall Hollander, he doesn’t expect the sexy architect to reawaken him as a man.
Sam Masterson owns a building where a lot of misfits make a home. When his working class neighbourhood comes under pressure because of a shiny new development, he heads uptown to speak his mind to the man behind the gentrification. Architect Tall Hollander is not what he expects—slinky and up front about finding Sam hot.
But before he can risk his heart, Sam has to be a hero again. For his nephew, who needs him to step up, and for his residents, who are sorely in need of his skills as a warrior to protect them from the brutal thief known as The Bruiser…
Jan Irving
About the Author
Jan Irving has worked in all kinds of creative fields, from painting silk to making porcelain ceramics, to interior design, but writing was always her passion.
She feels you can’t fully understand characters until you follow their journey through a story world. Many kinds of worlds interest her, fantasy, historical, science fiction and suspense—but all have one thing in common, people finding a way to live together—in the most emotional and erotic fashion possible, of course!
Sam Reviews edition by Jan Irving Literature Fiction eBooks
I agree with the reviewer who said the book was too busy. I loved the basic premise - that an alpha male, a marine, a dom, loses his legs and his way, falls to homelessness and now has to reintegrate himself. That's actually powerful enough. But there was a lot going on in this quite short piece and things started to get lost. Sam is by far the best drawn character, so much so that Tall, his true love, feels a bit like a too perfect cipher. We only see him being perfect and understanding, he's really quite flawless...I liked the basic premise, but the time line was too tight, Sam and Tall become a couple way too quickly, and everything works out way too perfectly. This is the second book I've read by Jan Irving - the other was Luke I liked this one better, it had better character development but it still has a problem with choppy time lines. This book somehow feels less than the sum of its parts... I'm not sure that I will ever reread, but I read it through and that's an automatic 3 star rating for me.
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Sam Reviews edition by Jan Irving Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
3 1/2 stars and so close to a four star read that it hurts. This book is about Sam who is an interesting character. He's stuck in a wheelchair, injured from his time in the marine's, he writes gay romances, knits and is currently running his aunt's yarn shop and is totally strong and masculine. He strikes up a lovely relationship with his dream man and it is all hearts, roses, bound hands and copious body fluids, LOL. The character interaction is fabulous but unfortunately, there is a lot going on here which distracts from the romance and some of it left me a little confused. For that reason, I just can't rate it a four.
I won this book in a giveaway.
There was a fair amount of intensity between the main characters. The owner of the building was a jerk, coming onto the architect, even though he was with Sam. The villain was a surprise and I'm glad that they came up with a plan to rejuvenate the neighborhood.
This was a really satisfying read for me. It was somewhere in the happy medium between the super angsty and the sugary sweet. It had just the right amount of conflict so that it wasn't irritatingly happy, but it also wasn't painful to get through. There were great secondary characters, a little mystery, and some light D/s.
Sam is an ex-marine who was injured in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan. We never quite figure out exactly what his injury is, just that he is permanently in a wheelchair. He doesn't have use of his legs but apparently does have some feeling and use of other parts below the waist. I did kind of feel like that needed to be explained a bit more.
I loved the idea of a disabled MC, especially a war vet. It was so interesting to follow Sam's journey as he struggled to believe that others may still find him attractive. I also liked that he wasn't somehow magically cured in the story, has happens a lot in romance when one of the MC's has a flaw that makes things less than perfect. Sam and Tall work around his disability rather than fix it, so much so that it almost doesn't seem to slow them down much.
The light D/s play seemed to be good for Sam because it allowed him to take back some of the control he lost by being in the wheelchair. While it didn't bother me one bit, I did feel like it should have been mentioned in the blurb, as it may not be some people's cup of tea. It really worked with the story, though.
Tall (Trevor) is the architect of a building that is going up in Sam's Aunt Audra's broken down neighborhood. He meets Sam when Sam comes in to complain about damage done to Audra's building. Tall seems instantly attracted to Sam, while Sam thinks he couldn't be attractive to someone in his chair. Others thought theirs was a case of insta-love but I didn't get that vibe at all. Just insta-lust which is more believable.
I didn't really understand why Sam gave Tall a nickname almost immediately, but I hate the name Trevor, so it didn't bother me at all.
Tall is quickly drawn into Sam's world his aunt in the hospital after a brutal beating, his poor nephew left with no one but Sam to care for him, and Sam having been fished out from living on the streets.
Sam's sketchy background between his injury and the period when the story starts is briefly hinted at, but I think it should have been explored in more depth. It felt like it was an important part of his character development but we never got the whole story. There was also absolutely no backstory on Tall. These two things are the main reasons this was not a 5 star for me.
There were a couple of interesting side plots other than the romance. There was the person who had attacked Audra and vandalized her building, along with other small acts of mischief. There was the relationship between Sam and his nephew Joe, which was pretty well done. They didn't instantly become `family' but there wasn't too much angst with them getting to know each other. Also, there was the fact that Sam was a romance writer and we got to read snippets of one of his stories. His book had a Master/slave dynamic that sort of mirrored what he and Tall had going.
Their romance itself was very easy-going. There wasn't a whole lot of conflict between the two of them, but I felt that that was okay, because they had enough to deal with between Joe, Audra, and Sam's disability. The book wasn't stuffed with gratuitous sex scenes, which I think was the right way to handle this particular story, but the ones that were there were nicely done.
The culmination of the mystery of Audra's attacker was wrapped up pretty quickly in the end, but it led up to a very satisfying HEA, wrapped up in nice little Christmas bow. This book would make a great beach read--not too much angst, not too much fluff!
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Good character development, good love scenes, good plot, good sub-plot, good, good, good. This is not nearly as heavily into the BDSM as some books in the genre, and a charming shift in expectations. And, of course, the HEA!
liked the contrasts Sam offered -war hardened Marine , leader of men, wounded warrior, Alpha top, previously homeless alcoholic, community leader and new father, yarn shop owner and knitter , writer of D/s gay erotica.... The author introduced us to some fabulous ,strong and quirky people in this tight knit neighborhood under seige, and how they all work together to create a blended family fighting to protect each other and their homes. Definitely plenty here for a sequel !
Jan Irving is one of the most mature voices in the M/M romance and erotica field. Not all of her novels are home runs, but they are all good. The Boxer and the Janitor are by far her best efforts, with the Gardner being the worst. This book falls between them on the spectrum. In Sam's REviews, the author seems to expend all her characterization energy on the protagonist, and leaves nothing left for the love interest, who is a bit one dimensional. Still, Irving at her worst is still better than most other M/M authors at their best.
Plotting is good, with the suspense confrontation in the climax feeling a bit tacked on. This is a romance hung on a suspense frame.
Jan Irving is a wonderfully talented author. An auto buy for me. Sam is a wounded vet living in a box trying to drink away his disappointment and loss. When his Aunt Audra is cruelly beaten and left for dead by a neighbourhood thug the local beat cop; a childhood friend, dries him out and brings him home. Sam takes over Audra' s business, apartment, and cares for ; and learns to care about his young nephew Joe. He meets Trevor when he goes to his office to complain about vandalism to the store caused by his Firm's construction equipment. A little bit of mystery, some solid character development and main characters you will grow to love. Great dialogue and a wonderful, tender love story. I never tire of reading it.
I agree with the reviewer who said the book was too busy. I loved the basic premise - that an alpha male, a marine, a dom, loses his legs and his way, falls to homelessness and now has to reintegrate himself. That's actually powerful enough. But there was a lot going on in this quite short piece and things started to get lost. Sam is by far the best drawn character, so much so that Tall, his true love, feels a bit like a too perfect cipher. We only see him being perfect and understanding, he's really quite flawless...
I liked the basic premise, but the time line was too tight, Sam and Tall become a couple way too quickly, and everything works out way too perfectly. This is the second book I've read by Jan Irving - the other was Luke I liked this one better, it had better character development but it still has a problem with choppy time lines. This book somehow feels less than the sum of its parts... I'm not sure that I will ever reread, but I read it through and that's an automatic 3 star rating for me.
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