Reviewed by Danielle

TITLE: Chasing the Sun
SERIES: Province Town #2
AUTHOR: Jacob Z. Flores
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 118 pages
Blurb: As a physician and prominent citizen of Victoria, Texas, Dr. Gil Kelly took a hard fall when his vengeful wife revealed his infidelity with other men. Closing ranks around her, the town’s elite ostracized him, and his relationship with his children was nearly destroyed.

After spending his life focused on living for others, he has no idea how to live for himself. He wants to find love but now settles for anonymous sex that only further clouds his world with shame and guilt. Gil believes finding true love is an unobtainable dream, what his father used to call “chasing the sun.”

Then he runs into Tom Martinez, his son’s childhood best friend, who returned to town a grown man and offers everything Gil needs. But Gil hesitates to fall into Tom’s arms, because after his high-profile divorce, the potential scandal of loving a younger man could separate him from his children permanently

Review:

What an incredible story. I totally got pulled into this right from the start and couldn’t stop reading.

The story starts out with an intensity that draws you in very deep into the characters and the story

behind them. For me it felt like it wasn’t until after chapter 5 that I had a minute to breathe and I realized I had totally forgotten what was happening around me.

In this second book of the Provincetown series we meet Gill and Tom. Gill is a former doctor who was shamed when he got caught up with a guy while he was married to a woman. He is also the father of two full grown children, Samantha, who’s married and mother of a daughter herself, and Zach the estranged son.

Gill lives in seclusion since he was outed as being gay and was shunned by the community and the town he lives in. He only gets his rocks off by meeting up with strangers he got in contact with through the internet.

His relationship with his children has only gotten worse over the years and he only lives in his own world.

Then he meets up with Tommy, the childhood and still best friend of his son Zach and for once he doesn’t feel the need to brush him off as he had done before when he had run into him. Tommy came back to town permanently to run his parents restaurant and is interested in Gill, but Gill‘s head is only on board with meeting up with a virtual twink he met online and he can’t stop thinking of a way to get to meet up with him to get his rocks off.

But surprisingly Tom touches something in Gill that spikes more than his sexual interest. He passes on the opportunity to meet up with the virtual guy to spend time with Tom and finds himself very interested and attracted to the younger man.

When they finally meet in all the right ways there is a undeniable base there. For both this is how it should be and as a reader you find that you indeed can look beyond all other things because of it..

In the second part of the book, at least that is how it feels to me, we see Gill making amends and trying to patch up things with his daughter after first attempting to get back in contact with his son.

Facing the community and the town he lives in while having Tom at his side opens up doors he assumed were closed and gives him insight on a whole new level with him finding that he still has friends and unexpected family. This story makes you feel like you accomplished something when you’re finish reading it.

You do want more. You want to know more about Zach and Gill and how things went from the meeting up point and that is the only critique I can find for this story.

Author Jacob Flores wrote an unexpected story, as I definitely didn’t expect this story to be about this after reading the first book,  but he connected all the dots in the end.

Danielle rates it – but more like 4.75 stars

Buy links: Dreamspinner Press :: Amazon :: All Romance eBooks

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