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Book Review: Dance With Me – Heidi Cullinan

via Goodreads

via Goodreads

I thouroughly enjoyed reading this novel. After reading my first book by the author called “Nowhere Ranch” I was convinced that this would be as good as said book.

Ed Maurer’s life would be fine if he could just get Laurie Parker off his back. He’s bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semi-pro football career, and he volunteers now at a local community center. It’s just that every time he turns around, that damn professional dancer is in his way, hating Ed right back. But when a bargain Ed strikes at the center lands him as an assistant in Laurie’s ballroom dancing class, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. Both Ed and Laurie have heartbreak in their pasts, but somehow dancing together eases their individual pain. For Ed, dancing with Laurie becomes a way to reconnect with his body after losing football. For Laurie, partnering with Ed has erased some of his fear of performing and brought back joy to a sport he wasn’t sure he could ever truly love again.

As Laurie and Ed lose themselves in dance, their lives continue to spin around them: Ed’s injury makes it clear he’s nowhere near recovery, Laurie feels the pressure by friends and family to perform once more, and the community center that has become such an important part of both their worlds threatens to close. Alone, they haven’t had the strength or spirit to face what life has hurled at them. But as the turns of their personal paths lead them into the arms of love, Ed and Laurie begin to think that if they dance this dance together, they might be able to succeed. via Goodreads

What I really loved about Heidi’s writing style is that she’s never boring. She’s got this ability to write a full chapter with mere narration and no dialogues at all and it’ll be interesting. And being a THE Britney Spears stan myself – this already earn some good points for me. I was so giddy whenever Ed go in the zone with Britney!!!! Too EPIC right? LOL

This is another book I didn’t mind losing some sleeping hours over because it’s really that good. That book has great pacing, great characters and amazing premise! Another “gold” from Miss Heidi Cullinan!

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Book Review: Nowhere Ranch – Heidi Cullinan

Blurb: Love will grow through the cracks you leave open.

Ranch hand Roe Davis absolutely never mixes business with pleasure—until he runs into his boss, Travis Loving, at the only gay bar within two hundred miles.

Getting involved with the ranch owner is a bad idea, but Roe’s and Travis’s bedroom kinks line up against one another like a pair of custom-cut rails. As long as they’re both clear this is sex on the side, no relationship, no interfering with the job, they could make it work.

Shut out by his family years ago, Roe survived by steadfastly refusing to settle into so much as a post office box. As his affair with Travis grows into more than just sex, Roe’s past catches up with him, threatening the thin ray of happiness he’s found, reminding him it’s well past time he went on his way.

But even a loner gets lonely, and at this point, there’s nowhere left to run. The shame and sorrow of what he’s lost will stay with Roe wherever he goes—until he’s ready to let love lead him home.

Here, Roe told us from the onset how he finally found his “home,” but not before informing us how his family discovered his homosexuality. It was pretty painful like I couldn’t even fathom what it could do to someone like him or anyone, especially after your family threatened to kick you out if you remained to be “true” to yourself. That’s just so wrong in so many ways. You can’t choose what you are. Maybe you can decide how you live, but you are what you are—trying to be someone doesn’t do it at the end of the day. Going back to Roe, as he narrates how he got to Nowhere Ranch – we found out that he’s been working from farmland to farmland and does not like staying at one place. Less attachment, less pain for him. Then he met Travis Loving, the owner of Nowhere Ranch, who’s got a secret of his own which excites Roe, and soon, the two have forged a relationship that somehow worked both for them.

I almost planned on not finishing this book because I’m not big on M/M stories involving BDSM, but in actuality, the whole BDSM fiasco plays little importance to the book’s merits. Without reservation, Roe Davis’s story was honest and poignant that it echoed so much truth, so much passion, and a lot of mixed emotions. It’s simply unforgettable.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kindle Edition, 254 pages
Published March 1st 2015 by Heidi Cullinan (first published Fe
bruary 15th 2011)