Jay Bell
ebook | Pages: 292 pages Rating: 4.08 | 8743 Users | 1102 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Something Like Summer ISBN13 9781458015327 |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/36026 |
| Series: | Something Like #1 |
| Characters: | Tim Wyman, Benjamin Bentley, Jace Holden, Allison Cross |
| Setting: | Texas(United States) Houston, Texas,1996(United States) Chicago, Illinois,1999(United States) …more Illinois,1999(United States) …less |
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Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change.The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of two words; Tim Wyman. By all appearances, Tim had the perfect body and ideal life, but when a not-so-accidental collision brings them together, Ben discovers that the truth is rarely so simple. If winning Tim’s heart was an impossible quest, keeping it would prove even harder as family, society, and emotion threaten to tear them apart.
Something Like Summer is a love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.
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| Title | : | Something Like Summer (Something Like #1) |
| Author | : | Jay Bell |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 292 pages |
| Published | : | January 5th 2011 by Smashwords (first published January 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Romance. M M Romance. LGBT. Young Adult. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 8743 Users | 1102 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books Something Like Summer (Something Like #1)
This easily could have been a 4/5 book. However, three things absolutely ruined it for me: 1) the sudden death of Jace, which seemed entirely too coincidental; it should have been foreshadowed at least a little bit; 2) Tim's douchebaggery increased exponentially as he got older; it was kind of understandable during the first part of the book (easily the best part), but convincing your ex that his current significant other cheated on him, just to get into his pants afterwards is NOT OKAY; and 3)
5.0 StarsWow. Just ... wow. I. Am. Beat. In Something Like Summer, Ben tells us of his first love (Tim), his second love (Jace), and his life in between. It was riveting. I enjoyed the characters and the overall storyline. I loved Ben's indomitable spirit and optimism. Tim was sexy as all get out but ... well, you know. (If you don't, read this book!) And, lastly, Jace ... *sigh* I love, Love, LOVE Jace. Period. This book wrung me out. I laughed, I cried, I threw my Kindle, I cried some more. In
***Audio edition re-read***Just as good as the first time. Ben and his two great loves. Neither is better than the other and neither is stronger than the other. Just different. Different, but equally perfect and fitting for Ben.__________________________________________This is a review for both Something Like Summer and Something Like Winter since I don't see a way to talk about one without the other. Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place
This is the first M/M YA book that Ive read and I cannot be grateful enough that I did read it because it has helped me come to terms with my sexuality. Being born in a country where both the state and the church have forged ideals of what should be the norm, being gay included, has forced people like me to hide deep in the closet. But after reading this early this year, the entire Something Like Series in fact, and hundreds of M/M books after that, I can at least say that I am now honest with
I read this in 2012, and the review below is for the ebook I read.In 2016 I listened to the audio and then decided to re rate it to 5 stars. I think because this book made me yell at the characters for their choices. When I'm so emotional invested that I'm yelling at the characters, for me that's should be 5 stars.I think the difference is in audio. I LISTEN closer to the story when I'm listening than reading. When I read-only I read slow, and sometimes I skip things. I'm not a very good reader,
This is a book about a first love that lingers. Ben's evolution as a gay man begins with a teenage crush on Tim, and like imprinting, Tim becomes fixed in Ben's core as the embodiment of the man he loves. Throughout their early days of hiding, of unequal partnering, rejection, and through all the years to follow, Tim remains somehow an essential part of Ben.In the years they are apart, Ben meets a guy who is better for him in every way. Open, loving, out and responsible, Jace is a wonderful
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