Anuski

This book grabbed me completely by surprise, because there is no real Stockholm Syndrome in it. It really wasn't what I was expecting and I found it original and completely refreshing. It's not perfect, but I enjoyed it a lot.

The history involves two completely opposite characters that stick/repel together like magnets. Lindsay and Valentine have nothing in common, and have a big age gap, they begin their relationship in surreal circumstances but each one provides what the other needs.

Valentine

Lindsay   

The book is centered in their disfunctional dependent relationship, the sex is explosive and kinky, giving only glimpses of the secondary characters and what happens around them, only in the end all blows up and the action takes place.

"I ain't scared. Not really. I mean...to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die" "Oh, fuck off" "I do not want the last song I ever hear to be fucking Morrisey" " "Yeah, it's the Smiths, actually"

The banter between them is brilliant, Valentine made me grin almost during the whole book, he is a little crazy annoying brat who gets attached to Lindsay, desperately trying to leave his abusing father and alcoholic mother, but he got under my skin, even with some horrible things he makes.

"Would you let me..use things on you?" " Things?" " Like. I don't know. Toys." "I'm guessing you ain't talking about Lego"

"Let me in you bastard, I'm freezing, my balls're the size if fucking Tic-Tacs"

"Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael..they got any Donatello here? Cos then we seen all the Turtles and we can go home"


P.S. Loved the cover too

Great coming of age YA book, even if it let me very sad. It relates the importance of how the real friendship can change your life, and how some things that people take for granted, a lot of times, are not true. Like one of the things I took for granted here.

The book is written in first POV, and is like you really are in a fifteen years old boy mind, the only downside is that I would like that the book had been longer, that the author had deepened in some parts of the history that I found little rushed.

This second one begins just where the first one ends, I love when the continuation of a book skipes the continuous reminder that some authors do when reading a sequel, this one just seems that you are reading the same book.

The relationship that evolves between Sam and Mac is just awesome, love their banter.

"You're my biggest pain in the ass, I swear to God" Sam mumbled "Oh darlin', I haven´t even begun to make your ass hurt" Mac rasped, "but something tells me you're goin' to love it when I do".

"It was his idea to get in the Jacuzzi together and let the hot bibbling water soothe away all lingering thoughts about the case, and Mac's idea to finish uo by giving each other a full body massage"


It's surprising how finally all characters get interconnected like puzzle pieces, and even if it seems unrealistic It didn't bother much to me.

The crime evolves in a slow pace, and seems to get connected in crimes that are take place in Houston, trying to get help from the police in charge of the case there, this added more characters to a history already full of them, but they are so great that It didn't bother to me either.

I should say that this series is 50% MM romance-50% thriller, the spaces between them are so large sometimes, that is easy forget about the crime case and viceversa, there are large parts where Sam and Mac are not present in the book, because, like in the first one there are a lot of POVs, that focus into their personal history.

I love too that having a third book not released yet, this one didn't let me with a cliffhanger, the case isn't resolved yet, but have progressed to a point where all seem more clear, and the relationship between Sam and Mac has made a great progression. It doesn't mean that I won't be waiting the third book impatiently.

4+ Stars

I loved this book, I've really enjoyed it a lot.


In this instalment Sam and Mac are in the second group, they don't want to love each other, they  only want to liberate their desire, his sexual atraction is electrifying.

The topic is centered in the no committed relationship between Sam (FBI agent) and Mac (bar manager and former firefighter), both gorgeous alpha males living far apart and who the destiny makes collide. They are only interested to take care of his high sexual attraction but not wanting to commit in nothing more. The history involves a serial killer case who is massacring gay guys in the state, which Sam is trying to resolve. Six degrees of Lust has a dynamic reading differently of I am accustomed. It has a lot of secondary characters that have his own POV most of them, and his own personal history. At the beginning it seemed a little distracting, but eventually I loved the secondary characters too. There are some things that seem a little unrealistic, everybody is gorgeous and gay friendly, or gay or bi, excepting some homophobic family issues, and the history is like an ensemble where everybody and everything has a connection.

The thing that  most disliked me while reading, was the constant repetition that Mac makes about Sam, referring him like "his guy" a countless number of times.

Well, I loved Mac and Sam , even if I wanted to punch Sam face several times , the guy doesn’t stop to make the opposite thing that arranges with Mac, and this drives Mac, and me, crazy.

"I don't bottom for  anyone. Ever" Sam was convinced he was a natural top and always upfront about it. Until Mac


This first part doesn’t have a proper ending, it is more like a "to be continued" that a cliffhanger, anyway, thanks God the second one is already released ;) I'm very intrigued in how this is going to end.
 I've just found that is going to be a third one, and I don't know when is going to be released ;(, so I suppose the second one won't give me a complete resolution.