Natural Disaster

Great follow up

4.5 ⭐️

Great follow up to bareback. I really enjoyed seeing the guys tackle new issues well and in a mature way that helped not hindered their relationship. This one really saw Tor step up.

The first part of the book was emotional for me and worked well. It was great seeing Tor stand up and take care of his man.

The addition of Jacob to the ranch went well and being he was a teenager I was expecting more pushing from him. It was good to see how they all handled problems that came up. I really liked that when Jake closed off and worried too much, Tor called him on it and helped him fix it.

Books about established couples can get lost in the tedious details of every day life but Owen managed to make this couple just as interesting the second time around. This was a great continuation of Tor and Jake's relationship. They still had issues with not talking enough and trying to smooth things over with sex but the guys were much more mature this time around. Before they could get too far down the wrong path one or the other of them would step back and say hey this isn't right. They aren't men who are used to speaking about their emotions but they love each other enough to deal with talking about things that might be uncomfortable. I loved the fact that everything wasn't hunky dory and that they were chatting up a storm whenever show more the need arose. That wouldn't be true to the characters and really wouldn't be true to a realistic relationship either. This sequel did not disappoint. :) show less

In comparison to the previous novel, Bareback, Natural Disaster is way more “comfort zone” read. Bareback was one of the first M/M romance I read, and maybe I was “naïve”, maybe I particularly don’t like when there is a cheating, but I remember that it was a reading that left me quite upset, not really in a bad way, but more like I was too much involved in the trouble of the main characters and even if in the end boy gets boy, in any case it was a long and troubled journey.

Aside for the simple fact that Natural Disaster is shorter (in length and also in time span) than Bareback, it’s also more sweet and romantic; true, it starts with Jake losing his sister Lissa, and suddenly being responsible for his teenager nephew Jacob, show more but from the relationship point of view, his bond with Tor is strong and above all exclusive. Hands up, one of the thing I didn’t like so much of Bareback was the easiness how Jake and Tor fell in bed with other men, true, it was a shared “falling”, but I think that in a way it influenced the following trouble they had in the relationship. In Natural Disaster there is not this issue, and the only friction is when Jake almost OCD syndrome surfaces, and Tor has to take him back into the safety of his arms and their relationship.

There is of course a lot of sex, but it’s not the lion share of the story: not only Jake and Tor have a lot of “sweet” moments together, like cuddling and kissing, but they have also to face some personal commitment alone from their couple, like when Jake has to take care of Jacob, or when Tor is alone on his business travels.

If you like the “Marlboro man” idea, the country western atmosphere and the small town attitude, in its positive and negative shade, Natural Disaster is for sure a good picking. As often in this case, it felt like homemade pie and it was warm as just out of the oven feeling.

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I loved being able to revisit Tor and Jack. It felt like catching up with old friends. Just the way I like it!

This book is just as good as the first one. Hot, sexy and very well written. It's no wonder that Chris Owen is an auto-buy for me.

Good writing, but not original, exciting or even interesting. The first part was ok with a very sensitive description about coping with the loss of a family member. But that remained the highlight. It felt like a repetition of the first book, although it mostly wasn't. Normally I like stories that feature a mature relationship and are not fixated on the falling in love part for a change, but this one was plain boring.

Ok...I LOVED Bareback and I really enjoyed reading about the continuation of Tor & Jake's relationship. How they moved on from Tor's mistake. How each of them have grown and how their love has progressed.