April Wilson (3)

I really loved the characters of Ian and Tyler and was happy to see things starting to work out for them. Tyler was a lot more comfortable with his sexuality and the life he's trying to make with Ian than he was in the first book. This story takes up almost exactly where the last story left off, so the two books diffidently should be read in order. The first book ended with Tyler coming to Ian’s defense and beating Brad to a pulp because he had chocked Ian nearly unconscious in the bathroom of the club they were at. Even though Tyler was off duty, we knew that there had to be some kind of repercussions for his actions here. Even the police can't get away with this type of behavior. I found the way Tyler handled the entire thing to have been not very smartly conceived. Brad had made a lot of threats and harassments to Ian...mostly pressuring him to have sex and threatening him if he refused. In this day and age everyone from a 5-year kid to a 90- year of grandparent has a cell phone...yet not one recording was ever made of Brad's verbal threats to Ian...not one video or photograph was ever taken of Ian's bruises...not one written, threating note was ever saved. I can't believe that at least 50 or more people wouldn't have been taking video and pictures of what was happening in that bathroom and posting them on Facebook. No one even bothered to call the police, so we are to believe that not one report of the assaults and threats ever made the police records.... not even by Tyler who WAS THE POLICE. I completely believe that no one, no matter who they are, is above the law. It was okay that Tyler was punished...but this happened without anyone offering one iota of evidence or testimony to defend him??? No way Jose! Tyler should have at least filed a report...but no. Ian's father is a judge, and his mother is a defense attorney...but neither of them did one single solitary thing to defend their son either. In spite of liking the narrators and the characters of Tyler and Ian, I have been married to a cop for too many years to be able to buy into most of this. I have to give Ian a boatload of credit for refusing Brad's demands even knowing that he is threating to file charges against Tyler. Let's not forget Ian's father. Ian is 25 or so years old...madly in love with Tyler, knowing that when Brad finally carries out his threat that Tyler is likely to serve some jail time and probably lose his job...and so "dear old dad" convinces Tyler that Ian simply "can't be allowed" to testify if there is a trial.... instead, Tyler is supposed to plead guilty. Really??? In spite of loving Ian and Tyler and the really good parts of this story...the unbelievably frustrating parts, and there were many...outweighed them. I'll give the story 3 stars for those parts that I liked, and for Tyler and Ian...but his whole story has to be taken with a grain of salt.… (meer)

I'm a bit on the fence about this one. I didn't particularly like one of the main characters, Police Detective, Tyler Jamison. Why in the world would he believe that he was, (his words), "defective", because women just didn't "do it for him"? When he found that Ian Alexander more than just "did it for him" I would have thought that a 30-something year old man would begin to get some idea, unless he had lived in a vacuum his entire life.... or maybe it was that "closet" that must be getting pretty full by now. He was not only clueless, but he spent a great deal of the story hating himself. I know that he and Ian Alexander were universes' apart in every way imaginable...but surely, he could have at least discussed this with the man that he thinks of as the love of his life and that he obviously wants more than he wants air. All this comes about on top of a really good mystery...the murders of three gay men and Ian is in the killer's sights to be number 4. I thought Ian moved on Tyler a bit too fast. At one point I thought that Tyler was going to have a heart attack...but all he did was run and hide. Wild horses have nothing on that man! Tyler has so many conflicts and undissolved issues that I don't think Dr. Phil would know where to start to help him. Then...WOW! Our Tyler is a fast learner! I can't say that I didn't like the story...I just wish Tyler had got his act together sooner. I have the next book in the series and hopefully Tyler is less conflicted by now. After all, he has by now had some practice. I have to give Ian extra points for being the most patient man I have ever seen.… (meer)