The Intern

The beautiful voices of Jacob Morgan and Joe Arden explain some of my reward from this book.

This book is about how meeting your person makes you an ever so better person. My words. (The wealthy, privileged Devlin is an “arse” but when he’s shown some tenderness, and of course from a man with Michaelangelo looks! There’s a lot of emphasis on a beautiful face rather than a beautiful body, which is actually a small difference I quite like. Most faces are beautiful, a gift with familiarity.)

It’s an extremely disappointing premise when a great many people in the world don’t have a “person” - what is life for them?!@;?? I don’t agree with the premise, except in so far as tenderness, kindness, appreciation from anyone make us show more a better person.

Both MCs are unusual. Micah is unreal, coming from religious nutter, homophobic parents, though a happy childhood. Devlin’s parents also feature strongly- eccentric, annoying- but he loves them. This is all revealed in fantastic pillow talk. Along with wonderful insights.

The rape, drugs, workplace abuse - it’s done well. Fortunately, our MCs have each other - how they are with each other is redemptive. show less

I really enjoyed this story. The characters were wonderfully done and I appreciate that most of the conflict in the story was external. This romance felt so organic and honest. My only issue is that I was unprepared for the graphic rape scene. I expected something to happen but to be either closely averted or remain off page. However, it was handled very well and I think Akeroyd did a good job of addressing the issue of sexual abuse of men.

This is the first M/M Romance, or any book by any other genera, that I couldn't bring myself to give a rating to. I know that there are probably many folks out there that read it and found this to be their "cuppa tea"...It just wasn't mine. I didn't like any of the characters and found myself early in the story losing patience with them. They appeared to hate their jobs...their life discissions...something in their lives... and took it all out on one another. I am an avid fan of MM romances, so my interest was piqued by the description of this one...plus it was a new book for me, as well as a new author. Going into this book I found myself having a really hard time with almost every aspect of the characters actions and reactions.... show more especially the way they spoke to and treated one another. A little of this is tolerable in a story...but it seemed to never end. It was obvious where the plot was going. I tried to keep reading because I hate to give up on a book. I own, and have read, literally hundreds of M/M Romances...but I have never read one that I couldn't find something to like. I do have to say that I am an exception in my opinion of this book compared to most of the other reviewers I read both before reading it and afterwards. Most folks gave the book fairly high praise. I have never written a book, but I have a friend that has, although she does it for fun and never tries to be published...they're just her "special babies", so I know the work and the heart that an author puts into these creations. I know that everyone doesn't and can't like the same things...there wouldn't be enough to go around...so if you are an M/M romance addict...please don't just take my opinion about it...give this book a try. show less