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(3.58) | None | "You're the strongest person I know.¿Wade Maguire and Russ Paulson are in love. After a year of passion and happiness, they¿re buying a home and moving in together. Everything is rosy for them¿until a jealous and insane ex from Wade¿s past puts all of that to the test. "I need to figure out if there¿s a way to move past this. For both of us.¿After being kidnapped and tortured by his deranged former lover, Wade loses his ability to engage with his own sexuality or with Russ. With the help of a psychologist, EMDR therapy, and a sex plan, they work together to overcome the damage inflicted. In the process, they discover wells of love they¿ve never known before. ¿You never deserved what happened to you. No matter what you¿ve told yourself. You only deserved love.¿As passion is reborn and their sex life reignited, Wade realizes a need to re-experience certain events in Russ¿s loving arms. For Wade, the difference between pain and pleasure is love, and the difference between rape and rough sex is consent.Dark, and yet ultimately hopeful, this story of true love and rape recovery contains many emotional and graphic scenes of two men making love, as well as some intense scenes of torture. Proceed with care.The Difference Between is a 78,000 word steamy, graphic, intensely emotional novel with a strong happy ending. No cheating and no cliffhangers, just two men who fight for their love. STAND-ALONE… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions "You're the strongest person I know.¿Wade Maguire and Russ Paulson are in love. After a year of passion and happiness, they¿re buying a home and moving in together. Everything is rosy for them¿until a jealous and insane ex from Wade¿s past puts all of that to the test. "I need to figure out if there¿s a way to move past this. For both of us.¿After being kidnapped and tortured by his deranged former lover, Wade loses his ability to engage with his own sexuality or with Russ. With the help of a psychologist, EMDR therapy, and a sex plan, they work together to overcome the damage inflicted. In the process, they discover wells of love they¿ve never known before. ¿You never deserved what happened to you. No matter what you¿ve told yourself. You only deserved love.¿As passion is reborn and their sex life reignited, Wade realizes a need to re-experience certain events in Russ¿s loving arms. For Wade, the difference between pain and pleasure is love, and the difference between rape and rough sex is consent.Dark, and yet ultimately hopeful, this story of true love and rape recovery contains many emotional and graphic scenes of two men making love, as well as some intense scenes of torture. Proceed with care.The Difference Between is a 78,000 word steamy, graphic, intensely emotional novel with a strong happy ending. No cheating and no cliffhangers, just two men who fight for their love. STAND-ALONE ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Wade Maguire and Russ Paulson are in love. After a year of passion and happiness, they're buying a home and moving in together. Everything is rosy for them-until a jealous and insane ex from Wade's past puts all of that to the test. After being kidnapped and tortured by his deranged former lover, Wade loses his ability to engage with his own sexuality or with Russ. With the help of a psychologist, EMDR therapy, and a sex plan, they work together to overcome the damage inflicted. In the process, they discover wells of love they've never known before. As passion is reborn and their sex life reignited, Wade realizes a need to re-experience certain events in Russ's loving arms. For Wade, the difference between pain and pleasure is love, and the difference between rape and rough sex is consent. Dark, and yet ultimately hopeful, this book contains many emotional and graphic sex scenes, as well as some scenes of torture. This book deals with rape and rape recovery. Proceed with care. Stand-alone with a happy ending. 78,000 words.  | |
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Wade decided to reconcile his friendship with his ex, but he didn't expect what came next..
Writing from the villain's POV is a hard thing to pull off. To me this scenario was ridiculous, which was partly intentional. But there’s a fine line between ridiculousness and portraying a crazy person with manic tendencies. And it didn't work for me here.
What shocked me a bit is that there's 2 kids in this story, 9 and 12 year olds, and they've been told what happened to Wade, though not in detail. They even told them the police
Otherwise, I liked Russ, he's a devoted boyfriend, very much in love. And I liked them together. I also understood the mentality behind this whole story, but after a while it got out of hand to me. I've no doubt the author did her research, regarding rape and torture victims, but the sex plan they put together with the Doc was too similar to what happened to Wade and I didn't like that. But like I said, I understand, and believe that a plan like that could work to heal the mind of the victim, but it was hella weird. Kudos to Russ for going along with it.
All in all, this whole book revolved around sex, one way or another. And I would've liked to know more about Wade's friendship with Owen, see the good times, and get a grasp of their dynamic, how was it back then. And also to see the joyful life Russ and Wade had before the kidnapping. (