Book Title: Warm Rush, Book I: Chasing Winter
Author: Rowan McBride
Publisher: Amber Quill
Publisher URL: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/
Author: Rowan McBride
Publisher: Amber Quill
Publisher URL: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/
ISBN: 978-1-60272-296-5
Genre: Gay / Contemporary / Fantasy / Paranormal
Nymph Rating: 4.5 Nymphs
Literary Nymph Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Jesse Winters is a twenty-six-year-old successful businessman, living the good life. He may have all the money he wants or needs, but he’s still a pleasant down-to-earth man who has time to play basketball with Keith, the fifteen-year-old guy next door. It’s a relationship he treasures, so he makes certain to keep his personal life and his gay lifestyle safely hidden. When his marketing department recommends he expand his stores to Europe, it saddens him to leave his home and young friend but he goes. Months after leaving, he suffers a near fatal, physically destructive auto accident on the Autobahn, which leaves him a shell of his former self. Jesse was originally supposed to be gone one year, but with his hospitalization and rehabilitation, it’s nearly three before he sees his home again. The most surprising thing of all is the changes he finds in his young friend Keith.
Keith has been enamored of his older neighbor, Jesse, since the day he moved in next door and he loves spending time with him, talking, perfecting his basketball skills and shooting baskets. When he learns Jesse is leaving for a year-long business trip he’s devastated, and months later when Jesse stops emailing, he’s crushed. That doesn’t change how he feels. Keith is in love with Jess and determined that when his love returns, he will be all that Jesse wants or needs. Three years later when Jesse does return, Keith is a physically changed eighteen-year-old who towers over everyone in his family. He loves Jesse, he wants Jesse and he’s not willing to let the debilitating results of an accident stand in his way of what he wants…and that’s Jesse, body and soul.
Warm Rush: Book 1, Chasing Winter is a re-release of Rowan McBride’s unique and unusual gay paranormal and it’s filled with so many twists and turns, I never knew what to expect next. The vast majority of the story takes place after Jesse returns home from Europe, despondent and in pain, which only made me appreciate the first portion more, where Jesse is healthy and happy. During the three years apart, both men undergo dramatic changes, both physically and emotionally. Jesse’s were the result of his injury, while Keith’s were the result of what Jesse’s needed to feel safe and secure, or to fit into his personal kinks (of which I’d never heard before). Even with Jesse’s physical limitations and pain, the desire and passion between him and Keith is blistering hot, but more importantly, also filled with caring and tenderness as Keith tries to give Jesses what he needs. These two guys seem so different you wouldn’t ever think they’d make a couple, when in fact they each fill a need the other has to be happy and complete.
Ms. McBride did a wonderful job describing the pain Jesse experienced every minute of the day; his lack of interest in eating, interacting with people and his fear of rejection. The scenes of various well-wishing neighbors who keep suggesting various dermatologists and plastic surgeons when he arrives home are particularly heart-wrenching. Yet through it all, Jesse is nothing but kind and polite. Keith, I admit I understood the least. But it didn’t take away from the devotion and love he had for Jesse, and the scene where they told his parents they were involved was priceless, as was their shock that he’d loved Jesse since his early teens.
The paranormals aspects of this story are icing on the cake, only adding another layer to an already well-packed gay tale of romance, caring, redemption, and getting what you want out of life in the end. This well-written tale is definitely worth the read.
Genre: Gay / Contemporary / Fantasy / Paranormal
Nymph Rating: 4.5 Nymphs
Literary Nymph Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Jesse Winters is a twenty-six-year-old successful businessman, living the good life. He may have all the money he wants or needs, but he’s still a pleasant down-to-earth man who has time to play basketball with Keith, the fifteen-year-old guy next door. It’s a relationship he treasures, so he makes certain to keep his personal life and his gay lifestyle safely hidden. When his marketing department recommends he expand his stores to Europe, it saddens him to leave his home and young friend but he goes. Months after leaving, he suffers a near fatal, physically destructive auto accident on the Autobahn, which leaves him a shell of his former self. Jesse was originally supposed to be gone one year, but with his hospitalization and rehabilitation, it’s nearly three before he sees his home again. The most surprising thing of all is the changes he finds in his young friend Keith.
Keith has been enamored of his older neighbor, Jesse, since the day he moved in next door and he loves spending time with him, talking, perfecting his basketball skills and shooting baskets. When he learns Jesse is leaving for a year-long business trip he’s devastated, and months later when Jesse stops emailing, he’s crushed. That doesn’t change how he feels. Keith is in love with Jess and determined that when his love returns, he will be all that Jesse wants or needs. Three years later when Jesse does return, Keith is a physically changed eighteen-year-old who towers over everyone in his family. He loves Jesse, he wants Jesse and he’s not willing to let the debilitating results of an accident stand in his way of what he wants…and that’s Jesse, body and soul.
Warm Rush: Book 1, Chasing Winter is a re-release of Rowan McBride’s unique and unusual gay paranormal and it’s filled with so many twists and turns, I never knew what to expect next. The vast majority of the story takes place after Jesse returns home from Europe, despondent and in pain, which only made me appreciate the first portion more, where Jesse is healthy and happy. During the three years apart, both men undergo dramatic changes, both physically and emotionally. Jesse’s were the result of his injury, while Keith’s were the result of what Jesse’s needed to feel safe and secure, or to fit into his personal kinks (of which I’d never heard before). Even with Jesse’s physical limitations and pain, the desire and passion between him and Keith is blistering hot, but more importantly, also filled with caring and tenderness as Keith tries to give Jesses what he needs. These two guys seem so different you wouldn’t ever think they’d make a couple, when in fact they each fill a need the other has to be happy and complete.
Ms. McBride did a wonderful job describing the pain Jesse experienced every minute of the day; his lack of interest in eating, interacting with people and his fear of rejection. The scenes of various well-wishing neighbors who keep suggesting various dermatologists and plastic surgeons when he arrives home are particularly heart-wrenching. Yet through it all, Jesse is nothing but kind and polite. Keith, I admit I understood the least. But it didn’t take away from the devotion and love he had for Jesse, and the scene where they told his parents they were involved was priceless, as was their shock that he’d loved Jesse since his early teens.
The paranormals aspects of this story are icing on the cake, only adding another layer to an already well-packed gay tale of romance, caring, redemption, and getting what you want out of life in the end. This well-written tale is definitely worth the read.
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