A Keen Edge H Leigh Aubrey 9781466364615 Books
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To the outside world, thirty-seven-year-old Scott Daven has the perfect life. He's handsome, rich, a successful businessman and politician with a wife and three sons who adore him. When his father hires a young architect to be his assistant, Scott fights his attraction to the young man. Losing this struggle would mean the destruction of his life and his political career. Neil Phalen's marriage crashed and burned when a hustler tried to blackmail him. After the divorce, he moved to a new town to start life over as a gay man. The next-to-last thing he expected was to fall in love with his married boss. The last thing was that his boss would fall in love with him. Determined to protect Scott and his family, Neil offers to remain in the background and in the closet, but that becomes impossible when Neil's ex-wife reveals his secret to Scott's wife and father. As the conflicts escalate around them, the men have to decide which price is too high -- the cost of personal honesty or the cost of a destroyed lie.
A Keen Edge H Leigh Aubrey 9781466364615 Books
I can tell you that I enjoyed this book immensely! This book was full of real emotions, thought and characters that you could relate to and become involved in. So much so, that I asked a friend - who recently went through the exact same scenario and storyline as the book - to read certain passages. He said that it exactly expressed what he felt at the time! He's now reading the book himself!Also, since I prefer books with "older" and "mature" characters, I especially appreciated that the main character was an "older" 37 years old who was mature and had life experience behind him. I identified with the main character quite a bit as I myself am in that age group.
Thank you, Mr.Aubrey, for writing books with older characters. Whilst I can appreciate a teen or twenty something coming out story or first love story, I can more relate, more appreciate, more identify with characters in my own age range and stage of life. This book was enjoyable and definitely worth a second read
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A Keen Edge H Leigh Aubrey 9781466364615 Books Reviews
I love this book. The characters are very realistic and the story is touching. I have been reading a lot of homo-erotic stories and some are very sexually graphic and others fall to short for me. Keen Edge is perfect combination. So far I have read it twice. And it wouldn't surprise me if I read it again. I wish I could find another book by H. Leigh Aubrey.
I've been waiting for this to be on , and it was well worth the wait, such story as this are hard to find, so wellll written. I first read his novel Never say Never, talk about another FANTASTIC READ, could not stop reading. I hope many of you take the time to read them both now, you certainly will NOT be disappointed. Thank you Mr. Aubrey, can't wait till you new one comes out (no pun intended)
A Keen Edge was a surprisingly romantic love story. I don't know, but usually, debut novels by male authors, even if classified romance, tend to be too angst and "realistic", and since usually real life has very few romance in it, so do the novels. So I have two theories or H. Leigh Aubrey is one of the few g ay men that was so lucky to find a real romance in his life, and so the novel is a true romance since the biographical connotations are not ruining it, or the author is one of the last example of romantic at heart able to write a romance without feeling guilty for being tender with his characters.
Now don't get me wrong, it's not all roses for Neil and Scott, but in a way, they are luckier than most same s ex couples, and above all, they have more possibilities (and I'm speaking of financial possibilities) than most of them. It can sound meaning, above all if related to a romance, but the true is that money help a lot try to be a g ay married man who wants to divorce his wife and not losing his kids, and you will see how much money helps.
Basically the story is probably one that many men went through. Neil is 27 years old and recently divorced; from a very conservative family and always trying to do the best to appease them, he married young and tried to be the perfect husband. But he was not able to go through to the farce, and now he is divorced and living thousand of miles away his family who doesn't want to see him. In the new town he befriends his boss's son and colleague, the 37 years old Scott. Scott seems to be what Neil was not able to become, married to the perfect society wife with three teenager sons.
When it's clear from the first meeting that Neil and Scott are drawn to each other, I was thinking, "Ok, this is a good "ordinary" romance, now Scott realizes he is g ay and in love with Neil, and they will find a way to be together". Well, I was "almost" right, but there was a leak in my theory Scott is more similar to Neil of what Neil thinks. Not only Scott is g ay, he is since he first had s ex with a guy when he was 14 years old, and he is in a "steady" friends with benefits relationship with that same guy since then. Really, it was like a bomb fall on me usually I don't like cheating man, but guys, that gave a whole different reading on Scott's character. It made him imperfectly perfect!
Maybe it helps a bit in my liking Scott the fact that Paula, the society wife, is not exactly an easy woman to like. She does all the things you can think to estrange Scott, arriving even to tell him that she doesn't like s ex with him, that he is not good at it. Well if you want to have a man hate you, that is probably the best way. And then the reader knows that it's not true, Scott is having s ex with his best friend, and then with Neil, and both of them think different. It's clear that Paula is not the right woman for Scott, and not only since she is obviously, well, a woman.
Even if Scott is not exactly a knight in shining armour, and neither the epitome of courageous man, he is living in denial for more than 20 years!, well, I really liked him. I liked that he was not all over Neil from moment one, I liked that he tried to not hurt him or his family, but at the same time that he was unable to deny their love, for me it was not a sign of weakness, it was the proof that there was not easy choice.
Maybe the ending is a bit too much as if the author was looking through a pink glass lens, but I stated at the beginning that I think to author is a romantic at heart and so I took it as a sign that I was indeed reading a romance. If you can't have an happily ever after, it's not a romance.
Well-known romance writer H. Leigh Aubrey has penned his first gay romance--and it's a real kicker. From almost the very first pages we get a sense of impending doom, or at least a strong feeling that Scott Daven's instant attraction to newly hired architect Neil Phelan isn't something that Scott readily welcomes. Scott is married with three growing boys and has what people think of as a storybook marriage. Scott is a successful architect working as his father's partner in the architectural firm of Daven & Son.
Nor is Neil too pleased that Scott has had an equally powerful effect on him, and of course, the first part of the story is about how both men fight their attraction for each other, as they work closely in the firm. Like Aubrey's other works, family and its place in society plays an important role, and when Scott and Neil finally acknowledge to each other that they are attracted, the plot begins tightening around them to an intensity this reviewer has rarely seen in a gay romance. What role will Neil's ex-wife play, Scott's wife, Scott's father? What about the family business and the family reputation--if Scott and Neil cannot come to terms with their attraction for each other? When is love more important than family loyalty? All these questions only hint at the intensity of the plot as it develops to a climax.
Aubrey masterfully weaves a story of love, family, betrayal, and explores the modern issues of homosexuality and homophobia. The ride is breathtaking, the resolution is handled well and, in the end, readers will say--"Yes!"
Ronald L. Donaghe,
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I don't know what the other reviewers read! This book was repetitive, predictable, and not believable. The characters were false, and the story extremely contrived. Toward the end, I didn't care for the characters or the outcome.
Books by Sean Kennedy, James Buchanan, and Jane Seville are far better. Skip this one!
This isn't the trivial novel with gay characters that are now written as if they came from a production line mas where 1/3 of the book is nothing more than the description of sex action. You won't find this in "A keen edge".
Instead, "A keen edge" offers believable characters and emotions you relate to.
I can tell you that I enjoyed this book immensely! This book was full of real emotions, thought and characters that you could relate to and become involved in. So much so, that I asked a friend - who recently went through the exact same scenario and storyline as the book - to read certain passages. He said that it exactly expressed what he felt at the time! He's now reading the book himself!
Also, since I prefer books with "older" and "mature" characters, I especially appreciated that the main character was an "older" 37 years old who was mature and had life experience behind him. I identified with the main character quite a bit as I myself am in that age group.
Thank you, Mr.Aubrey, for writing books with older characters. Whilst I can appreciate a teen or twenty something coming out story or first love story, I can more relate, more appreciate, more identify with characters in my own age range and stage of life. This book was enjoyable and definitely worth a second read
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