Scotty Cade

I have read several books by this author and always enjoyed them immensely. Like all of his books, the characters were likable…even poor Bruce. One thing I thought was that Beau was way too hard on Cruz. He didn’t even know the man…he had nothing to do with Beau and his former partner breaking up…and yet he was rude to him at every turn to start with. While the romance build was good and the character development was very good, I just, for some reason, didn’t get the same warm show more feelings for this book as all Scotty Cade’s other books. Maybe it had something to do with that I don’t especially care for the art world. I’m happy that Tollison and Beau are going to give themselves a chance. I really enjoyed their interactions both personal and professional...and will happily read the second book in the series. show less

Beau and Tollison with Bruce and Sebastian, sort out a few more last grievances with their ex boyfriends together. I loved Beau and Tollison's funny banter throughout the book. I’ve read many of this author’s books so can say with conviction that Scotty Cade has a clear and precise writing style that makes it easy to become engrossed in the story. It seems that once you start reading his books you can't put them down. I just wish that there would be more than only 3 books in any of his show more series. You just get to love the characters and then they’re off hiding in the pages…but there are always new ones to take their place. I think he should have one huge reunion with every character from every book he has written to date. Now that would surly be worth reading. I have never been disappointed in any of his books. show less

Wings of Love was for sure a good romance, but it had also the feeling of being true, not so pink glasses perspective as many other romances I read. First of all the two main characters, Brad and Mac, are not so young, not so old even, but let say they are not new at the love game: Brad has recently lost to cancer his partner of 15 years and Mac is a recent widower. Mac has already had the time to adapt to the loss of his wife while instead Brad’s wound is still fresh; when Brad goes back show more to Alaska, in the place he and his partner loved so much, Mac is a familiar face, and a strong shoulder he can rely to when sadness catch him. Brad impulsively decides to buy an isolated cabin and since the cabin is the same Mac and his wife wanted to buy as well, they decide to move in together. From being roommate to being lovers the step is short, maybe too short for Mac that has no time to digest the news he is gay. Mac claims with Brad he has never had any homosexual desire before meeting Brad, and we need to believe him; what I think is that basically Mac is a monogamous lover, and when he fell for his wife, he had no other thought for anyone else, and now that he is falling in love for Brad, he is the same. Mac is bisexual, for him the gender of his lover is not important, what is important is the feeling.

Brad’s issue instead is not really that he is falling for an apparently straight man, but more that he is still mourning his lost partner. Again, to be true with him, I had a similar experience with a dear one lost to cancer, and who lives with a terminal patient has plenty of time to prepare to the final moment, and when it happens, you are already in the process of learning to live without your dear one. So no, I don’t think Brad’s feelings for Mac are too immediate or maybe temporary, what I think is that, once they start the relationship, they will need time to find their balance, as indeed is in the plot of the story.

The romance between the men is good but not too sugary; there is the right dose of sex, and the sex was always direct and basic, not really roses and champagne, but more the good and healthy expression of two adult men. It was also very physical, but not the acrobatic variety, more again, two men who had no issue to admit what felt good and what they could enjoy of their body (see Mac’s discovery of man on man sex).

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This was a book that evoked a slew of emotions. Everything from frustration with the existing mind set to warm fuzzy feelings for the two guys that were as different as night and day…but knew they were absolutely perfect for one another no matter what the school, their families, or society thought or the rules that were placed to keep them apart. I didn’t understand the treatment that all of the lower classman received without provocation or warning from a selected group approved by the show more academy. I suppose they had an explanation but they certainly weren’t forthcoming. I was very impressed that the author didn’t just write a love story about a military academy as well known as it’s sister school, West Point. He traveled to Charleston and was allowed to observe and form this story around his observations. Never once did I find anything that indicated that story reflected his feelings about the policies in place or the attitude of the school. He just wrote a warm, beautiful story about two men that were willing to take their chances. The public opinions and the government policies concerning gays in the military have changed but those changes evidently didn't apply to the academies. I loved Gus and Sam and the ending was perfect. I did wonder where Mr. Cade was going to take this story but he didn’t disappoint in the least. show less