So most of the reviews I see about this book were written back in 2010-2013, and most of them complained about the ending. The version I have is the 2017 updated with new ending book, and I loved the ending! It was so sweet and brought us where we were really hoping the guys would end up.

As for the story, I thought this was great. It was very different from other stories I've read, so it really intrigued me. Zach and Jake are dating and out one night when they get confronted by Nathan, Jake's other boyfriend. Nathan and Zach are angry and both break up with Jake, but Zach feels really bad for Nathan. They talk that night and eventually hook up. They find that they can't stop thinking about the other and start seeing each other regularly. They have to work through trust issues a few times, but eventually, our guys get to the point where love wins out. It was very sweet. I really liked these guys. ( )

Mostly enjoyable story about two guys who were unknowingly dating the same man - one for 6 months, the other for 4 years. As they work through the betrayal they connect with one another, but the ex (Jake) tries to come between them and jealousy and lack of trust is a continuing problem. Nathan in particular finds it hard to trust Zach and while that formed the conflict in the story, it did get old. While I suppose that was the point (the story is told from Zach's POV), it meant that the end kind of fizzled for me and I'm not sure I bought into Nathan's about face - what? he just decides and it's all better? Some of the sex scenes seemed a bit on the repetitive side but overall, it was an enjoyable enough story. ( )

Nine-tenths of the Law is for sure an erotic gay romance, plenty of hot sex and two men who enjoy doing it, but it has the merit to not being “only” that.

The starting point of the new relationship between Zach and Nathan is pretty risky and almost fated: Nathan finds out that his boyfriend is cheating him with Zach; to be true with Zach, he didn’t know “his” boyfriend was of someone else, and when Nathan tells him so, he doesn’t think twice to dump the man and actually go after Nathan himself.

The first night together, the same night when Nathan tells Zach about Jake, it’s all about sex; and why not, even if a cheater, Jake was pretty good in bed, and Zach doesn’t see any wrong in having indeed his night of sex, even if the once to give it to him is not the same man. I like this side of the story, even Zach finds out that Jake is a liar; he doesn’t let it “contaminate” all the other memories he has of the man. Jake was indeed a good lover, and a good boyfriend, problem is he was not exclusive. And on the other side, if he was so bad, the reader should have questioned how it was possible for him to lure two fine men like Zach and Nathan… if an ex is pretty bad, well, you have to question also the other side of the apple. So no, the author doesn’t try to describe him as a total loser, only a cheater and a liar.

Anyway he is soon forgotten when Zach has his test taste of Nathan: he is way better suited for him than Jake, he even likes his cats, who apparently rule over the house. In the first three meetings they have, Zach and Nathan apparently have problem to take the hands off each other, and the sex is plenty, good and hot. The rage both of them had the first night soon dissipated, but the sex remains hot. Not Zach or Nathan have problem to admit they are plenty of compatible in bed, and that they like sex; the problem is when their relationship can’t be only about sex: date after date they need to do something else beside searching for the nearest flat surface, and then the trust issue appears: how can Nathan trusts Zach, when he was the man who stole him his boyfriend? Let alone that Jake was not the first bad experience Nathan had in love.

There is the possibility to read Nathan also in a different way, like being a bit insecure and maybe giving to Jake a reason to not being faithful; please now don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, I’m not trying to find an excuse to what Jake did, it was wrong, and the author gave us also other reasons to dislike Jake, but maybe he was not the right man for Nathan. Jake was not able to inspire trust in Nathan, and indeed Nathan was right in not trusting him, but I think that he really never begun with.

While with Nathan, Jake had a relationship, even if faulted and fated from the beginning, with Zach I think he had more a fling, a mutual exchange relationship of sort: Zach likes sex, Jake is good at it, equal they have something; I don’t think Zach really cared a lot of Jake, and for this reason he was able to forget it almost immediately. For Zach there is not the problem to mistake Nathan for true love when instead he is a rebounding, since Zach has never to rebound.

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