Reviewed by Danielle

Title : Love means …Patience

Series: Farm #7

Author : Andrew Grey

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Length: 200 pages

Blurb:

Years after his discharge from the Marines under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Cody Culver lives in a PTSD-induced world all his own. On a mission, under misconceptions that Geoff and Eli are the enemy, Cody breaks into their farmhouse but is quickly brought back to his senses by a frying pan to the head. After receiving much needed help in the hospital, Cody has nowhere to go. Luckily, kindhearted Eli knows just where to turn.

When Eli asks former Marine Brick Hunter to help, Brick isn’t sure he wants to get involved. But Brick has worked through his own PTSD, and like it or not, he owes Eli a favor. With Cody struggling to rejoin the real world and Brick agreeing to take him in, they discover they have more in common than either of them thought possible.

Though Cody tries to stay in the here and now, he sometimes flashes to unexplainable traumatic events—events that don’t fit his usual war zone delusions. As the “delusions” grow more frequent, it becomes apparent they might not be delusions at all. Cody may have actually witnessed a murder

Review:

I have waited for a long time for this one, practically begging author Andrew Grey to tell me if he was continuing this series, if there would be more eventually.

So how excited was I when this book was released.

For me this series is a must read for every fan of m/m fiction. It contains everything you want in a book, character bonding, love, angst, drama, family, hotness to name a few.

One of the beautiful things to me is although the stories in each book stand on their own, with their own main characters, as a series fan you love the reconnecting with the characters of the former books. Starting with the main characters from the first book. Geoff and Eli.

These two men make their way into your heart and are there to stay.

Also in this 7th part of the farm series, they play their part. When Cody makes the life changing choice (not knowing it at the time of course) to break in for food in Eli’s & Geoff’s kitchen; or should I say Adelle’s kitchen.

Eli being Eli sees something and offers Cody help and treatment. When that is taken care of he sets him up with fellow marine their neighbour Brick.

Having both experienced a discharge because of DADT and knowing the meaning of PTSD they try to make things work. Brick seems to be having a calming influence on Cody, who struggles to come out of it with the upper hand.

We witness a slow gentle built up in the relationship of Cody and Brick and by relationship I mean the slow building of a friendship even before they become lovers.

The life on the farm settles both man in a comfortable rhythm, doing chores, eating together, talking spending time and sleeping together, innocently started with sleepwalking ending with being settled in a comfortable arrangement between two men.

Slowly we witness the attraction that was there simmering below the surface growing more and more and it is beautiful to see that come to a “climax” and not in a explicit way but in a more than loving coming together.

When the story continues and it seems that Cody, as the blurb mentions, didn’t just experience flashbacks but perhaps really witnessed something, his life is threatened without him even being aware to what point.

Not going to giveaway much on that part because you need to follow the leads in the story and find out for yourself how that comes to an end.

Author Andrew Grey surprises again with this new release in this series making sure it is yet again different, yet comfortably familiar.

I as a reviewer as well as a reader can just express the wish that he never stops writing this series.

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BUY LINKS:

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