Dance for Me
Remmy Duchene & Allison Cassatta
Contemporary Gay Romance
Novel (228 pages)
MLR Press (March 19th 2014)
Solid 4 star read!
Lo... When they dance into your heart and falling can't be helped ...ve
Alexander Benton is used to getting what
he wants. With his wealthy parents MIA most times, he is left to rule Julliard
and half of Manhattan with impunity. He hides his misery behind meaningless sex
and condemning behavior.
Augusto Catalan grew up poor. To make a
living, he dances at a local gay performance club and survives on the poverty
line. His crappy New York apartment and simple life make him happy---except for
the death of his lover, his brother being in a war zone and his life-long dream
of getting into Julliard slipping away with each passing day.
When Alex meets Augusto, he knows there
is no way this ghetto boy is getting into /his/prestigious school. Then he sees
Augusto dance.
Alexander Benton is rude, ostentatious, entitled, domineering and handsome. He
has spent his life with a silver spoon up his ass the product of money and an
upper class life style. The only thing Alex has missed out on is love. True,
unyielding, undying and unconditional love. His parents are never around and
the one person that he trusted and gave his heart to, tore it apart. In an
effort to remain indifferent, he's only done the occasional hookup or his
latest friends with benefits, that is more benefits than friends.
Augusto Catalan is polar opposite of
Alex. He has worked hard to get where he is and came from practically nothing.
The Spanish American dancer wears his pride on his sleeve and has had the love
of his parents and adopted brother, along with his boss and long term partners
father for as long as he can remember. After the death of his lover to cancer,
Gus never wanted to open his heart or his life to another man. He can't take a
chance of being hurt that deeply ever again. That is until he meets Alex.
Alex and Gus butt heads from the start.
They really, truly can't stand one another. The mutual disdain is
insurmountable, and the sexual tension couldn't be cut with a pair of garden
sheers! Gus knows he should walk away from the brash dancer, but he can't help
himself, and one stolen kiss later, the two can't seem to stop thinking about
each other. Sparks fly and passion ignites when they stop running, and stand
still long enough to get their arms wrapped around each other. But can a person
really change who they are? Will Alex be able to give up the control he so
desperately clings too in order to capture and hold on to Gus's heart? And if
he can, will Gus open himself up to love and be loved again?
Cassatta and Duchene have delivered a
well written and highly emotional love story set in a world surrounded by
dance. Alex is an accomplished ballet dancer and Gus is a striving fresh new
dancer, just enrolled at Julliard. They really come together and compliment
each other, learning from each others weakness's and gaining from each other's
strength. My only teensy issue was the slight resemblance of insta love at one
point in the story, and a little misplaced angst here and there. But overall
this was a fun, fast read that got my blood pumping and left me with a smile on
my face.
If you like a passionate love story
between a couple of sexy guys that have to learn how to bend and move to please
each other (pun intended!) with a Happy ending (!!) then this is the story for
you.
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