Patchwork Heaven edition by Jaime Samms Literature Fiction eBooks
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Singer Coby Kennedy and his drummer twin, Bruce, have a band called Patchwork Heaven. They have been rising steadily up the country music charts, but unfortunately, that rise has attracted unwanted attention. Faced with anonymous letters, sinister gifts, and the wanton destruction of their personal space, they hire The Detail, a specialized security firm. Coby never anticipated Gregor, The Detail's owner and his personal guard, would be quite so intriguing.
As the stalker gets closer and more violent and questions pile up, Gregor fears his past might get in the way of him finding who is threatening his client when he becomes suspect number one. Even though Coby is convinced Gregor is not behind the threat, Gregor is not sure he's the right man to keep Coby safe, either from the stalker, or from his own interest in the singer.
Patchwork Heaven edition by Jaime Samms Literature Fiction eBooks
I wish I liked this book, really. The characters in the synopsis drew me right in - I love books about gay musicians. But "Patchwork Heaven" really, really didn't work for me. I'm surprised I finished it.The premise is fascinating, though hardly original. Gay Country Music star (Coby) has a stalker who seems to be escalating, and a bodyguard (Gregor) with whom he falls in love. I've read so many nearly identical plots (rock-star or country-star) involving a celebrity's affair with a bodyguard (Whitney Houston, anyone?) that you'd think I'd had my fill - not so. Some of them were just so good. The combination of music, threat, romance and thriller - I can can't ever seem to get enough of it.
But this interminable book may have cured me of my unfortunate addiction. I mean interminable, literally. Not only is the book very long, but it's sometimes so slow, it's unendurable. It goes on and on, one boring red herring after another. Essentially, for the first two thirds of the book, there are no suspects except the bodyguard, himself, but only in the mind of the caricature of a grumpy policemen who never finds a lead and doesn't have a clue. Just one more less-than-credible element in this book. The other questionable issue is the bodyguard and his team - who let one thing after another happen to members of the band (including a shooting) while they sit around over-thinking everything, to no avail. And every time something happens, a whole chorus of "it wasn't your fault, you couldn't have foreseen this..." is interspersed with the bodyguard's well-earned guilt. This may be the most incompetent protection service ever, with the possible exception of the Secret Service whose incredible bumbling has recently come to light. They should have fired The Detail (Gregor's firm), the first time Gregor got clocked with a two-by-four by the stalker, while escaping the band's trailer after robbing and vandalizing it. What, the bodyguard doesn't even have a gun? What use is he? Apparently, none. He doesn't even capture the stalker in the process of attempted murder - it takes a 140-pound twink to do that.
That might all be forgiven, if the love story were anything special or moving. It isn't. The author, falling prey to the "Fifty Shades Of Gay" meme, has to throw in this absolutely bizarre domination/submission thing. Gregor is, of course, the top, but you know how much he loves Coby by how tender and affectionate he is between bouts of treating him like he's a dog in obedience training. What in hell was Ms. Samms thinking? I can't help but feel that this is just another one of those gay romances created when the author started with a list of trite (but successful?) gay romance themes and picked one from column A and two from Column B like a menu in a Chinese takeout. Sure fire hit, covers all the bases, right? Hardly.
Apparently, one of the items in her bucket list was the psychic connection between twins, because she makes this the backbone of the book - not just once, but twice. The brothers in the band (Coby and Bruce) communicate in fractured sentences only understood by their twin, and purely psychically the rest of the time. In fact, Ms. Samms blames Bruce's past drug addiction on his attempt to escape his brother being in his head, full time. If that weren't bad enough, Gregor is also a twin, who watched his sister die in a car accident. Twin twins? Talk about being just a little over-the-top?
She gives the boys an almost ridiculous HEA, as they prepare for their oh-so-sweet wedding. What happened to the blindfolds and restraints? The whole thing comes off more than a little schizophrenic.
The real shame is that Ms. Samms might actually be a promising writer. She certainly has a way with words and her descriptions are both vibrant and subtle. I hate to discourage any writer, particularly one with the obvious, but misapplied, talent shown in this book. If she gets her head together, and wrapped around a consistent, well-designed, well-paced, original plot, I might actually look forward to whatever comes next.
More like "Patchwork Heaven"? Not so much.
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Patchwork Heaven edition by Jaime Samms Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It took me a little bit to get into this but once I got into it I really enjoyed the ride I took on this twist interns of this wonderful little Mystery. Joe
This was a challenging read that I almost didn't read. I loved the premise. Loved the blurb. But it took me a long time to get into the book and like/understand the characters, and even then I felt like I was missing a backstory that wasn't explained. I wished there would have been more explanation at the beginning about the brothers, the band and why the bodyguard. That said, I found myself getting sucked into the story, and not wanting to put it down.
This was a really good book. The characters were well thought out and developed. I enjoyed it so much I was sorry to see it end. Do yourself a favor and go read it!
****REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS****
Music Star, check, Body Guard, check, Stalker, check. With all of these components I thought this book would be right up my alley, so much so I disregarded the fact that there was no reviews and purchased it anyway. I finished this book a couple of days ago, and have put off writing a review until I could get my head around, just why this book did not work for me.
I'll start with the Body Guard, Gregor. Seriously, I would not hire this company to protect my worse enemy. You have a famous client, and yet their stalker is not only able to get into their trailer, but is able to trash it and when confronted, get of site with only a little bit resistance and nobody being able to describe the attacker. The stalker is also able to get a gun into a concert and get himself close enough to the client's house, whilst the client is inside. What are these people doing? And I'm not even going to start on the abduction. The fact that afterwards, every one of the people involved is telling Gregor it is not his fault is a crock. Whose fault is it then, when you are paid to protect someone from a known stalker?
Coby, the other MC - I really don't know where to start with Coby. As a character, Coby didn't work for me. He is so full of contradictions he made my head spin. One second he is standing up for himself when Gregor tried a bit of humiliation in the bedroom, saying he would not be shamed about liking men, and in the next breath he is suffering shame during a bedroom scene with Gregor. At one point he was thinking that it had been a long time since he had bottomed, which indicates experience, and then he is unable to voice any opinion as to what he wants, blushing and hiding like a medieval virgin. With his problem with people touching him and his inability to voice what he wanted, I seriously wondered how he ever got anyone into bed in the past.
I could not get a grip on his neurosis either. I kept waiting for some explanation as to why he was like he was, but none ever came. The self-doubt, music via colors, and panic attacks just didn't add up. By the end of the book I felt sorry for Bruce and what he went through in the twin bond. To have that always in your head, it's no wonder he took drugs to escape.
Both of the MC's just came across to me as weak, and I really did not care for either of them. In the end it was only my stubbornness that made me finish.
I'm sure others will love this book, won't be the first time I differ from the masses, but for me it just did not work
I wish I liked this book, really. The characters in the synopsis drew me right in - I love books about gay musicians. But "Patchwork Heaven" really, really didn't work for me. I'm surprised I finished it.
The premise is fascinating, though hardly original. Gay Country Music star (Coby) has a stalker who seems to be escalating, and a bodyguard (Gregor) with whom he falls in love. I've read so many nearly identical plots (rock-star or country-star) involving a celebrity's affair with a bodyguard (Whitney Houston, anyone?) that you'd think I'd had my fill - not so. Some of them were just so good. The combination of music, threat, romance and thriller - I can can't ever seem to get enough of it.
But this interminable book may have cured me of my unfortunate addiction. I mean interminable, literally. Not only is the book very long, but it's sometimes so slow, it's unendurable. It goes on and on, one boring red herring after another. Essentially, for the first two thirds of the book, there are no suspects except the bodyguard, himself, but only in the mind of the caricature of a grumpy policemen who never finds a lead and doesn't have a clue. Just one more less-than-credible element in this book. The other questionable issue is the bodyguard and his team - who let one thing after another happen to members of the band (including a shooting) while they sit around over-thinking everything, to no avail. And every time something happens, a whole chorus of "it wasn't your fault, you couldn't have foreseen this..." is interspersed with the bodyguard's well-earned guilt. This may be the most incompetent protection service ever, with the possible exception of the Secret Service whose incredible bumbling has recently come to light. They should have fired The Detail (Gregor's firm), the first time Gregor got clocked with a two-by-four by the stalker, while escaping the band's trailer after robbing and vandalizing it. What, the bodyguard doesn't even have a gun? What use is he? Apparently, none. He doesn't even capture the stalker in the process of attempted murder - it takes a 140-pound twink to do that.
That might all be forgiven, if the love story were anything special or moving. It isn't. The author, falling prey to the "Fifty Shades Of Gay" meme, has to throw in this absolutely bizarre domination/submission thing. Gregor is, of course, the top, but you know how much he loves Coby by how tender and affectionate he is between bouts of treating him like he's a dog in obedience training. What in hell was Ms. Samms thinking? I can't help but feel that this is just another one of those gay romances created when the author started with a list of trite (but successful?) gay romance themes and picked one from column A and two from Column B like a menu in a Chinese takeout. Sure fire hit, covers all the bases, right? Hardly.
Apparently, one of the items in her bucket list was the psychic connection between twins, because she makes this the backbone of the book - not just once, but twice. The brothers in the band (Coby and Bruce) communicate in fractured sentences only understood by their twin, and purely psychically the rest of the time. In fact, Ms. Samms blames Bruce's past drug addiction on his attempt to escape his brother being in his head, full time. If that weren't bad enough, Gregor is also a twin, who watched his sister die in a car accident. Twin twins? Talk about being just a little over-the-top?
She gives the boys an almost ridiculous HEA, as they prepare for their oh-so-sweet wedding. What happened to the blindfolds and restraints? The whole thing comes off more than a little schizophrenic.
The real shame is that Ms. Samms might actually be a promising writer. She certainly has a way with words and her descriptions are both vibrant and subtle. I hate to discourage any writer, particularly one with the obvious, but misapplied, talent shown in this book. If she gets her head together, and wrapped around a consistent, well-designed, well-paced, original plot, I might actually look forward to whatever comes next.
More like "Patchwork Heaven"? Not so much.
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