Three and a half stars. Too much hurt/comfort for my comfort ;) plus towards the end the book gets a touch out of control (once again - for my personal taste) with one of the characters growing to gargantuan proportions... literally. Otherwise nice and pleasant read. Of course you can connect all the dots before the book ends, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Finished the book in one day :) ( )

Puts a whole new spin on [b:Gulliver's Travels|7733|Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344534942s/7733.jpg|2394716]! For me, the muscle-growth thing didn't work... at least when it got to the point of impeding certain pursuits.

Still, I liked the characters (for the most part) and the story did keep me interested. ( )

Jesse is a 26 years old businessman with a wonderful life: money, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, friends. One friend in particular: a young guy of 15 years old, the boy next door. Keith sees in Jess an idol, and he desperetely wants this man; but Jesse sees in Keith only a kid. Beside Jesse, even if gay, likes a different type of man: bid, sturdy men, and Keith is a skinny boy and probably he will not grow much more.

Then Jesse has to leave for a business trip, a year long journey in Europe, but he promises to write to Keith. But the year end with a terrible car accident and other two years pass before Jess returns back home. And when he sees Keith he can't believe at his eyes: Keith is more than 6 feet tall and during the days with him grows more. And he also can't accept a no by Jesse: now Jesse is wounded in spirit but also in phisyc and doesn't want no one near him. But Keith doesn't listen to reason and open himself a way in the life and in the bed of Jesse.

This is terrible wrong. Keith is 18 years old, he has to go to college in few days, and he can't possibly want a man scarred like him. Jesse continues to repeat to himself this words, but he also has to admit that the presence of Keith in his life makes him happy, for the first time in so many year he is warm and sure.

But Keith continues to grow. Like a giant. Is it Jesse the reason of this all? Is it love or is it obsession?

Jesse is a wonderful character: clever, sympathetic, gentle. He doesn't blame the other for his fate, he tries to close himself to people, but never wants to hurt them. And he thinks before doing something and tried to find the right solution for everyone.

Keith is young and reckless. He wants: he wants his father's attention, he wants his brother's respect, he want Jesse's love. And everything he wants he have. No matter what it cost. He is pretty scary sometimes. But he really loves Jesse. And Jesse knows how to contain this giant.

Rowan McBride has an extremely original mind. This is a pretty long novel, who use a pretty similar starting point of other her romance, True e One Good Hand, the 'changing lover', but in a more 'realistic' way: in this novel there aren't aliens, but only two men who love each other beyond the nature law.

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