And All Shall Fade to Black edition by Layla Dorine Literature Fiction eBooks
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Moving into his new apartment, Jax never expected to have to break up a fight between his new neighbors, resulting in a physical altercation and a visit from the cops. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that it would lead to him meeting Danny, the cute theater manager and playwright that lived next door. Unfortunately, his first impression of Danny and the way he’d cowered away in the fight with his ex, wasn’t exactly a favorable one. Jax already has his own issues to deal with, between his past problems with his mother and the chain of men who’ve floated in and out of her life, his new job as a piercer in his sister’s tattoo shop and his struggles with an eating disorder; the last thing he plans to add to it is a relationship. Yet Danny isn’t so easy to ignore and when they find themselves bonding after Danny shows him around town, and more when Jax offers to help with sets for his latest play, it becomes harder and harder for him to ignore the connection forming between them. As Jax’s insecurities and food issues grow more and more out of control, he find himself turning to Danny for help, rather than his longtime friends Callum and Max who lives just downstairs. Danny’s mix of patience, stubbornness and tough love make it harder and harder for Jax to keep his distance, and somewhere in the course of their daily lives, they find themselves moving from being friends, to being more.
And All Shall Fade to Black edition by Layla Dorine Literature Fiction eBooks
This a good romance story of two men the falling in love with each other. Little sex but a lot of loving going on. I really enjoyed this storyProduct details
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And All Shall Fade to Black edition by Layla Dorine Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ FOUR-STAR ✩ REVIEW ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
> > Judging a Book by it's Cover < <
Dark, shadowy cover. Author name stands out nicely, but title gets muddied up in the backpiece of the guy on the cover. Poor cover composition, in my opinion. It would not entice me to pick it up. The synopsis sounded a bit more interesting.
> > Looking Deeper < <
POV ~> Third person.
Less than ten percent into the book, I felt the need to verify the copy I received was a final copy and not an ARC. It contained enough errors to make me question Ms. Dorine's editing team, beta readers, and/or proofreaders. This was a problem throughout the book.
Fiercely independent, to a fault, Jax was hyper-critical of anyone that could not stand up for themselves and fight for what they wanted due to childhood experiences. But as "nice" as he was to Danny, he was such a hypocrite. He bullied and denied himself many basic wants and needs that would lead him to a happier and healthier life, all while belittling and/or lashing out at friends and family. Yet, somehow, he was deemed to be a perfect fit for meek, mild, vanilla Danny. Danny was first introduced as little more than Sean's punching bag, then somehow graduated to being a doormat for Jax. Later, when a relationship is finally formed, he suddenly becomes a bossy, dominant top? The relationship dynamics were interesting, entertaining, frustrating, but not wholly believable.
That said, when Jax was NOT being a class-A jerk and Danny wasn't acting subservient, they seemed to be an unlikely but good match. Secondary characters were enjoyable. Dialogue was pretty good. The interaction varied, but was mostly believable, even if not always palatable. The story flowed fairly well but there were parts that felt flat and drug out. The conflicts were almost 100% internal and if one or the other would have engaged in better conversations or pulled their heads out of their derrieres, maybe things would have been a little less angsty. There were several plot twists that I had suspected could happen based on earlier things said and/or done but they never did, so overall there really was not much predictability at all. The conclusion felt a little abrupt and unfinished but teased at an implied HEA. Future events that were made into a bigger deal (art festival, tattoo convention, wedding) were left hanging undone and while that's normally not a big deal to me, they seemed like important events to the characters at the time.
Overall, if the book passed through another round of proofreading and edits to catch the more-than dozen errors I'd found, you might find this story enjoyable. The concept was interesting... a body piercer and a playwright.
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Rating [R] ~ Score 3.825 ~ Stars 4
Possible triggers Domestic Abuse, Eating disorder
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4.5 STARS
Layla Dorine is an author that I’ve only recently discovered but she is fast becoming a favourite. She writes characters that I feel I should dislike, but instead I fall in love with them. And she writes stories that, in my opinion, have great depths and are well planned. Now maybe I’m wrong. Maybe she just makes up the story as she goes along and there’s no planning going on at all, but if that’s the case then she’s even more talented than I first thought because she always manages to pull the threads of her tale together seamlessly to give us a completely satisfying story.
In this particular book, Jax is the character that I felt I should have hated with a fiery passion. He’s a judgmental douche-canoe, right? Yes, he saves a cowering Danny from a raging boyfriend, but he condemns him for not fighting back for the remainder of the book. I’ve read other reviews, and a lot of readers seem to find Jax’s attitude to be unforgivable. I however, felt nothing but pity for Jax. From my point of view, Jax’s childhood conditioned him to react to domestic violence by blaming both the perpetrator and the victim. Because of what he witnessed and suffered as a child, he sees victims of domestic violence as weak and pathetic. I’d go so far as to say that Jax was suffering from PTSD due to his home life as a child. The author did an absolutely brilliant job of keeping me from despising this guy, against my better judgment. I also loved the way she really made Jax work to change his conditioning. Just because he fell for Danny, it didn’t make everything magically better. He still had to work through why he felt that way, and at times he still struggled with not looking down on Danny because of the way they first met. This author excels at creating these messed up characters. For all of those readers sick to death of perfect male specimens – this author writes the men for you.
As to Jax’s eating disorder, I really, really liked the way the author handled that. I guess Jax is what you’d call a functioning anorexic. Again, this all stems from his sucky childhood and you get the impression that he’ll never truly be over his problem. He manages it to some extent, and seeks help whenever he escalates to “purging”, but there’s no miraculous recovery by the end of the story.
With the occupations of piercer and playwright to add another element of interest to the story, …And All Shall Fade to Black was always going to prove a favourite for me. I fully intend to check out more books by Layla Dorine and urge any readers who haven’t read her books before to give one a go.
Review originally posted at Love Bytes LGBTQ Reviews
This a good romance story of two men the falling in love with each other. Little sex but a lot of loving going on. I really enjoyed this story
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