5/31/2023 0 Comments In Step by Jay Hogan![]() ![]() ![]() There'll be no plot spoilers here but, like with all Jay's stories, there is a solid and strong sense of place, a cast of both blood and found family to bring depth and strength to the narrative and it's this which is a such a draw for me with Jay's writing. He's also unexpectedly found himself having to parent his 16-year-old nephew Jack and it's his struggles that throw the two men in to each other's orbit. He's sharp, spikey, but also achingly vulnerable and lonely, though he would never let himself think about it.īeckett, by contrast, is a lumberjack of a man, an English Professor of Poetry who doesn't hide his romantic soul half as well as he thinks he does. ![]() Rhys is just the type of man I adore to read about finding a happy ever after, he's someone who suffered great trauma (read the trigger warnings, the effects of it are a critical part of the plot which unfolds many years later) and has learned to control and compartmentalise his life. Well, that was a ride and a half and I loved every bit of the tumultuous journey.įlare is set in Auckland's high fashion world and its two central characters couldn't be more different if they tried, an opposites' attract romance which worked on every level for me. ![]()
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