Reviewed by True
TITLE: Splinters of the Heart
AUTHOR: Alyssa Rabil
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 349 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 16, 2021
BLURB:
Love finds a way.
Aaron Beaumont is a mess. Life has never been easy, so why did he think bondage would help? While he solved the problem of making some quick money, it came at a price he wasn’t willing to pay. To his great relief, he’s rescued by Silas Anderson. Silas, a doctor, takes him home and treats his physical injuries, but his gentle touch and reassurance can’t touch Aaron’s internal turmoil.
When Aaron tries to return home the next morning, the worst has come to pass. He suddenly finds himself with nowhere to go. Once again, his world collides with Silas’.
With the future uncertain, a friendship blossoms into something neither Aaron nor Silas has experienced before, and they know it’s something they may never experience again.
However, happiness is just out of reach, and before they have a happily ever after, they must face a demon from the past.
Reader advisory: This book contains scenes of verbal and physical abuse, consensual pain, parental abuse, drug use, homophobic language, mentions of anxiety, suicide and drug dealing..
REVIEW:
I wish I could say I liked this story more than I did. The construction of sentences was good, the flow of the lines also, only the story wasn’t entertaining, it felt a bit boring.
Aaron is twenty-one, Silas twenty-seven but they acted like seventeen-year-old boys. They act like virgins even though they met at a porn scene where they would be filmed.
Aaron needed money for his younger brother’s education and it pays well. On the film set, he got abused and Silas saved him, shooting around with a gun!! They are gone with the money. .
A friendship and romance are blooming, only their lives are in danger.
They had more trauma in their lives than others in three lifetimes.
But even with all that, the story felt a bit flat. I didn’t feel it, I didn’t feel the plot. After I finished the story I looked back and had trouble putting it into words.
The boys felt a bit innocent and confusing, constantly blushing, it didn’t match in my head. .
There goes a lot of attention to their anxiety and traumatized events, there are nightmares and panic attacks, all those parts were good done, and convincingly put together.
Looking at the big picture you’ll find two guys brought together by a porn set. Two broken souls, traumatized and in need of help, in danger by some losers.
It plays all quite on the wrong side of the law, violence, abuse, drugs use and dealing, murder, illicit actions, and all covered and disappeared like dust u def the carpet. It was a bit too much.
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