Straight Up (Audible Audio Edition) James Lear Todd Stevens Start Midnight Books
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Who is trying to kill the members of an elite special ops team that worked off the radar in Iraq in the '90s? It's up to Dan Stagg to track down the survivors - the men with whom he stormed an undefended surveillance station, killing everyone inside. And now, many years later, the team is being targeted in what seems like a series of unrelated attacks. Dan teams up with his old comrade Al Benson, once a rising star of the USMC, now a respectable married civilian with a few secrets to hide. As they dig deeper into the secrets of the past, Dan discovers that Benson's looking for more than just answers. An explosive affair threatens everyone's future, and connects Dan to a past he thought he'd left behind.
Straight Up (Audible Audio Edition) James Lear Todd Stevens Start Midnight Books
First and foremost the author, James Lear and his publisher need to make it clear to the reader that this is actually BOOK TWO in this series, "The Hardest Thing" is BOOK ONE not as both books are depicted on Amazon. There are way too many references from "The Hardest Thing" throughout this book and unless you have read "The Hardest Thing" first much of this book will be very confusing especially the protagonist, Dann Staggs' relationship with his boyfriend Jody. Now for the book itself...if you want to read a book about an extremely immature (he whines like a baby just about every other page) 39 year old ageing [gay] ex-Major in the U.S. Marine Corps who at THIRTY NINE still thinks only with what is below his belt, if you get my drift rather than with what's above his belt (his brain or his heart) than this book is for you. The Dann Stagg we meet in the first book is a very different one from this one! The subplot about his relationship with Jody just proves what a joke Dann Stagg really has become. He justifies his relentless cheating on Jody by convincing himself that Jody is doing the same to him (he's not) and though constantly declares his "love" for Jody he never bothers to find out what is going on in Jody's life to make him change so much both physically and emotionally. When Dan Stagg finally at the end of the book finds out the truth about Jody instead of being the alpha male he claims to be and take charge and in turn take care of his "omega" he claims to "love" Dann Stagg runs away like the COWARD he truly is. What is with authors like Mr. Lear who create characters like Dan Stagg who are so reckless with their MANY sexual encounters bu feel the need to suddenly take the moral high road and give the reader another tedious "safe sex" lecture (it is fiction after all) during each and every sex scene?!? Mr. Lear does this throughout this book...This book got so ridiculous that Dan Stagg made an obviously unwanted sexual move on the man who was his only hope in finding his [creepy] ex-marine buddy, Al Benson who was being held hostage...if and when Mr. Lear writes a third book in this series (the first book was pretty good) unless it is free I will pass on wasting my time reading it.Product details
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Straight Up (Audible Audio Edition) James Lear Todd Stevens Start Midnight Books Reviews
My review is bad because the story is more erotica then romance. I wish there was some way to indicate more clearly.
I hate skipping chapters and find little left
I'm having trouble figuring out what this book was about . I'm hoping that it is the set up for future novelist which will have more cohesion to them . Too many loose ends on this book without much in the way of solutions either before during or after . My jury still out on this one.
This book is so dismal, the writing was ok, but such a miserable character. I feel like those are wasted hours I can never get back. May be realistic, but if I want real, ugly men the is enough of that in real life. I read for pleasure, not sad, unhappy endings. Kept hoping to the end there was something to redeem this man's character...too sad!
Plot here is only a thin veil for sex-without-intimacy scenes... character development runs the whole gamut from A to B, well actually A to A. Harsh, anonymous sex there is, plot and character arc there is not.
Dan Stagg grows on you. Although I still prefer his Mitch Mitchell series, my second reading of this thriller brought me greater appreciation of Lear’s storytelling. I was disappointed with the mercurially changing psychology of several of his characters. Former Marine commander, Al Benson, changes direction like a weathervane. Stagg’s current lover Jody withholds serious health information from him, even though they’ve been together for a couple of years. And Stagg’s decision to leave Jody, after having such a deep commitment, reveals an ugly side of the main character. The story primarily falters because the pivotal character, Captain Harry Armitage, never appears in the book, except in a flashback. I must admit I enjoyed the writing and the thriller plot involving Marines, in America’s search for weapons of mass destruction. There are some good scenes, some very hot scenes, and gym employee Lee is a warm and fuzzy character. The three-way with him, Benson and Stagg is far and away the best scene in the book.
Dan Stagg is one of the most complex, unique, and totally messed-up characters I have come across in ages. He's a solid ex-military openly gay man with a sweet and much younger lover from the first book in this series. But he quickly falls into every single sexual and plot-driven circumstance thrown in his way, mostly with great remorse but little will-power.
I found this to be a mid-life crisis journey for a man whom I had much better feelings for after finishing the first book. Yet, as it ended, I wondered whether or not the next one would bring us back to the man we admired and loved in The Hardest Thing, or bring us further negative development of a character who has too many flaws already.
But I will buy the next one because I have hope.
This is another of James Lear's series and further brings out and develops the main character. This is an erotic mystery with a good amount of sex. However it is presented in a way that further develops the plot and character. I have discussed with others that this book is well written and is does not slip into pornography at all--but it is well written erotica. I have enjoyed all of James Lear's books and look forward to his next book.
First and foremost the author, James Lear and his publisher need to make it clear to the reader that this is actually BOOK TWO in this series, "The Hardest Thing" is BOOK ONE not as both books are depicted on . There are way too many references from "The Hardest Thing" throughout this book and unless you have read "The Hardest Thing" first much of this book will be very confusing especially the protagonist, Dann Staggs' relationship with his boyfriend Jody. Now for the book itself...if you want to read a book about an extremely immature (he whines like a baby just about every other page) 39 year old ageing [gay] ex-Major in the U.S. Marine Corps who at THIRTY NINE still thinks only with what is below his belt, if you get my drift rather than with what's above his belt (his brain or his heart) than this book is for you. The Dann Stagg we meet in the first book is a very different one from this one! The subplot about his relationship with Jody just proves what a joke Dann Stagg really has become. He justifies his relentless cheating on Jody by convincing himself that Jody is doing the same to him (he's not) and though constantly declares his "love" for Jody he never bothers to find out what is going on in Jody's life to make him change so much both physically and emotionally. When Dan Stagg finally at the end of the book finds out the truth about Jody instead of being the alpha male he claims to be and take charge and in turn take care of his "omega" he claims to "love" Dann Stagg runs away like the COWARD he truly is. What is with authors like Mr. Lear who create characters like Dan Stagg who are so reckless with their MANY sexual encounters bu feel the need to suddenly take the moral high road and give the reader another tedious "safe sex" lecture (it is fiction after all) during each and every sex scene?!? Mr. Lear does this throughout this book...This book got so ridiculous that Dan Stagg made an obviously unwanted sexual move on the man who was his only hope in finding his [creepy] ex-marine buddy, Al Benson who was being held hostage...if and when Mr. Lear writes a third book in this series (the first book was pretty good) unless it is free I will pass on wasting my time reading it.
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