Nothing Special edition by AE Via Jay Aheer Tina Adamski Literature Fiction eBooks
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Detective Cashel 'Cash' Godfrey is big, tattooed and angry so people typically keep their distance. He's fresh out of the police academy, however, no one is looking to partner with the six foot four beast with a huge chip on his shoulder and an inability to trust. When Cash scans the orientation room he wasn't expecting to find sexy hazel eyes locked onto him. Eyes of the handsome Detective Leonidis 'Leo' Day.
Leo is charming, witty, hilariously sarcastic and the only one that can make Cash smile. He’s proud, out and one bad-ass detective.
Together Cash and Leo become the most revered and successful narcotics detectives Atlanta’s ever seen. Able to communicate and understand each other, without even having to voice it, they quickly climb up the promotional ranks.
When Cash saves Leo's life in a raid that turns deadly, Leo begins to see something in the big man that no one else does…something special. But Leo fears he'll never break through the impenetrable wall that protects Cash's heart.
Nothing Special takes the reader through various emotions throughout the richly fulfilling plot that’s full of erotic gay romance, heartache, passion, trials and tribulations, police action scenes, and an intriguing twist that comes to an amazing ending that’s impossible to see coming.
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Nothing Special edition by AE Via Jay Aheer Tina Adamski Literature Fiction eBooks
I was liking this book a lot. God (Cashel Godfrey) is huge and scary and a cop. He is partnered with Leo Day who is out of the closet and proud of it. God and Day have been partnered for four years, which is a long time in the police world when things change. Day has known God has kept something from him even though they are so close they don't need to talk to communicate. It turns out God is from a home where abuse by his cop stepfather and his cop friends resulted in him losing everything. I liked the story and the pace until the editing issues started to come up - and the mistakes grow more numerous the further into the book you go.What makes me unsure whether this book is a 2 star vs a 3 star is the implausibility of the couples actions. When the two become lovers God is adamant that Day is his and his alone, and they both agree enthusiastically. Why then do they suddenly, out of nowhere, jump into a foursome? And I have to say that with God's background and the gang rape that was described he would not go down this route with four men in a bed without there being some emotional consequences. It makes no sense. It grates on me because the book had been building a strong stable relationship up until that point.
The author really needs to get the editing under control - there are so many mistakes that take you away from the story that it interferes with your enjoyment. And the foursome thing is poorly thought out and put in just for effect rather than a natural progression in the story - it was just too forced. I don't think I will be looking for more from this author because I feel there is squandered potential here - it could have been a really good book if there was more care taken and less playing to the salacious end. The author had developed two characters that were likable and the story had humour. It's a shame really.
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Nothing Special edition by AE Via Jay Aheer Tina Adamski Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
After having read several reviews, I agree that pan42 hit closest to my own thinking. As a reader who is easily distracted by poor proofreading/editing, I found myself becoming more irritated the farther along I went in the story. I have a habit, good or bad, of highlighting the errors I come across as I read. There really is no excuse for the number in this book appearing on the market at in this shape. I just went back and looked and did some initial counting and there were well over 250 "distractions" that I caught (who knows how many more there are?).
Like another reviewer, I found myself thinking we were near the end and then noticed there was quite a bit remaining. I had liked the development of God's and Day's life together but then Ronowski and Johnson, both of whom were obnoxious pests initially, suddenly and unrealistically became bosom buddies (literally) with our "heroes" and the foursome just turned me off completely. That relationship was both gratuitous and detracted from the story line to a major degree.
To repeat quality, competent proofreading could have helped this work immeasurably.
I did really enjoy this book. Ms. Via has a great way with characters and dialog. The two main characters, Day and God, keep up the same sarcastic badinage they shared as partners in the Atlanta Police Department, with the exception of a huge number of "I love you"s tossed into the mix.
The first half of the book was wonderful. God's back story, and his estrangement from the family he still continues to support, provide the tension required to hold your interest. And the scene in which a drug "kingpin" was holding a loaded gun to Day's head was a marvel. Just the look in God's eyes when he threatened him with what he would do if he harmed a hair of Day's head was enough to drive terror into the heart of the criminal.
I liked that there was minimal angst in their basic relationship. After almost five years together as partners on the job, they could already read each others' thoughts - and the fact that "I love him" was a thought they both shared, seemed to be more than enough to make the transition from partner to lover happen relatively painlessly.
However, I gave the book 3 stars, but only because doesn't allow me to give it 3.5. My reservations about this book are pretty much the same as many of the other reviewers here
1) Ms. Via is a good enough writer that she doesn't need self-indulgent tricks. If she does, then the story and characters should be strengthened, instead. Naming one of the characters "God" (short for Godfrey, I believe?) was too over-the-top and annoying to serve the story well. Like others, I was often distracted reading lines similar to "God spread Day's legs...". See what I mean? It doesn't propel the story or character development. In fact, it distracts from it.
2) The second half of the book was a letdown. Instead of a police story with a major and risky bust ahead of the characters, it devolves into one of those endlessly trite M/M Romance novels that I have come to dislike so intensely sex, moving in together, sex, God with his newly reconciled brother, and the coming-out stories of other department denizens, plus more sex. Ho hum.
3) So, to enliven the story, which I'm sure she realized was flagging, Ms. Via threw in a gratuitous foursome which a) made no sense with two jealous and possessive main characters and b) seems to end up being an ongoing thing, diluting the relationship between them for all time to come. Not to mention that it plays into the "promiscuous sluts" stereotype that many people use to denigrate gay men. Not good.
4) As others have mentioned, the editing was execrable. This is an ongoing pet peeve of mine - spending good money on books that are, at best, merely rough drafts. If you bought any other product on with as many defects as this one, you'd return it immediately. But, somehow, we give authors a pass, when we really shouldn't. Their failure to edit their work, to deliver the best and most polished book to their readers, is nothing less than insulting. I now deduct between 1/2 and a 1 star from any review where the poor editing made it difficult or unpleasant to read the book - as I did with this one.
And the problems were not just typos.
a) She writes of "hangers" at a shipping port. Hangars are for airplanes, and though she misused the word, she didn't seem to care enough to even spell it right. In any case, I think she actually meant "warehouses".
b) Ms. Via, apparently, does not like commas, and therefore almost never uses them to set off parenthetical expressions.
c) She seems to have a big problem with prepositions, too "Did his morning usual and left out the bathroom...", what, did he leave it out in the rain, or leave it out of the blueprints? Or didn't bother to pee and wash up? From the context, she meant "left the bathroom". Another one "jumped out the way so Day could swat him". Out "of" the way makes some sense. This sentence did not.
d) She also doesn't seem to like plurals "I don't want you guys grilling him and asking him a million question."
e) Ms. Via doesn't do too well with contractions, either, particularly with the second person "Your [sic you're] about to turn seventeen..." or the opposite problem, using "you're" for the possessive.
f) Nor is she convinced that her characters are human, as opposed to inanimate objects, referring to people as "what" or "that", rather than "whom" or "who" "He looked over to his partner that [sic who] was devouring a huge mug of coffee..." and "he gave a quick handshake to the bouncer that [sic ,who] was familiar..."
g) Entire sentences were barely readable "God was cough as much but his body hurt" .
h) And finally, at the very least, an author, whose very art is the words he or she writes, should at least use the correct ones People don't "shutter", cameras do. People "shudder". Or, "Day thought about the course beard. Scratchy bears are "coarse", not "course". One of my favorites was "There [sic "their"] intimacy had been very one-sided."
I'm sure you get my drift. I don't know about other readers, but I was constantly knocked out of the story by jarring misspellings, grammatical errors, missing punctuation and the like. Not my idea of a good time.
I would have liked to give this book more stars, as the characters certainly grabbed my interest and the reading (except for distractions) was pretty fluid and enjoyable - at least for the first half of the book. If Ms. Via can hire a competent editor, stop looking for self-conscious "hooks" and let the story take her where it wants to go (without substituting obvious out-of-character sexual filler), I believe she might become a top-flight author. There is a germ of real talent here.
I was liking this book a lot. God (Cashel Godfrey) is huge and scary and a cop. He is partnered with Leo Day who is out of the closet and proud of it. God and Day have been partnered for four years, which is a long time in the police world when things change. Day has known God has kept something from him even though they are so close they don't need to talk to communicate. It turns out God is from a home where abuse by his cop stepfather and his cop friends resulted in him losing everything. I liked the story and the pace until the editing issues started to come up - and the mistakes grow more numerous the further into the book you go.
What makes me unsure whether this book is a 2 star vs a 3 star is the implausibility of the couples actions. When the two become lovers God is adamant that Day is his and his alone, and they both agree enthusiastically. Why then do they suddenly, out of nowhere, jump into a foursome? And I have to say that with God's background and the gang rape that was described he would not go down this route with four men in a bed without there being some emotional consequences. It makes no sense. It grates on me because the book had been building a strong stable relationship up until that point.
The author really needs to get the editing under control - there are so many mistakes that take you away from the story that it interferes with your enjoyment. And the foursome thing is poorly thought out and put in just for effect rather than a natural progression in the story - it was just too forced. I don't think I will be looking for more from this author because I feel there is squandered potential here - it could have been a really good book if there was more care taken and less playing to the salacious end. The author had developed two characters that were likable and the story had humour. It's a shame really.
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