Reviewed by Danielle

Title : Gage & Collin

Series: Storming Love: One Storm, Twelve Men #1

Author : S.J Frost

Publisher: MLR Press

Length:

Blurb:

When Hurricane Lauris strikes, former lovers, Gage and Collin find themselves trapped together with old emotions and passion rising between them.

As a professional rider on the NRHA circuit, Gage Chapman has known success. He’s also known discrimination. Many people didn’t want an openly gay rider competing in the sport, much less winning again and again on his champion Paint stallion, The Shaman. Wanting to get away from it all, Gage had left Utah to set up a breeding farm in North Carolina and there, he found what he’d always hoped for, a man he could love.

Collin Maddox is the town deputy with his sights set on becoming sheriff someday. He knows local attitudes wouldn’t be real pro on voting a gay sheriff into office, so he’s kept his sexuality a secret for years. For all the care he has for Gage, his secret tore them apart, leaving them both with regrets and broken hearts.

Now Hurricane Lauris is coming in fast and strong. Gage has refused to evacuate and leave his horses behind. Knowing Gage is alone, Collin goes to Gage’s farm to help him, only to find himself trapped there. Hurt, anger, and passion erupts between them. As the storm rages around them, both men wonder if this is a new beginning, or the final ending.

Review:

When I heard about this new series I was really intrigued. I liked the premise and the fact that different authors would write about the same storm through various eyes.

The First one about Gage and Collin really got me. I really felt a connection to the characters.

You have Gage openly gay and proud, being hassled and mocked because of his orientation in the professional circuit and you have Collin, deputy sheriff in the town they both live in. You hear some about their background during this story, learn about how they met, felt the connection and how they got together in the first place. This story is about how they both feel there is still so much between them and finding their way back together.

The story doesn’t start of like that though. There is so much bad blood between them or perhaps I should say so much hurt. You can feel the desperation in the words author S.J Frost uses. As a reader at least for me you can sense the love behind it all and  it made me long for them to find their way back together again.

Then we come to the only weak link in this story and that is that it was too short. Why? Well because simply put it goes too fast.

The sexual tension is fantastic, the love and emotions likewise as is the way how they connect over the storm being holed up together. They are forced to look at their actions, reasons and wants and it is all great but after the storm that’s all there is. To me that is a bit of a shame. You know there is quite a lot they need to work out but after the storm it goes quickly and a bit too easy.

That is the only thing I regretted about this story. It could be that I really fell for these two guys and just wanted to read more but in general I think it was just too short.

A special comment should be about Shaman, Gage’s horse. What a fantastic wonderful animal character. You will see for yourself why, while reading this story 🙂

This first story made me extremely curious and even more excited about the ones that follow. I also hope that in a way although the stories don’t seem to be connected that we get a glimpse of Collin and Gage somewhere along the ride.

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