Promesse fatte è il secondo volume della serie Promises, con due protagonisti diversi, Shane e Mikhail, ma fanno la loro comparsa anche Carrick e Deacon con la loro famiglia e i loro casini.

Il romanzo mi è piaciuto: Amy Lane è una maestra del drama, nel senso che ne mette a tonnellate nei suoi libri, ma riesce a dosarlo bene in modo che non risulti mai troppo. Costruisce dei personaggi che hanno avuto e hanno vite difficili e li fa interagire tra di loro, lasciando che i sentimenti che provano siano uno sprone per fare meglio, ma non la cura di tutti i mali.

Mikhail ha un passato di tossicodipendenza e un presente di sforzi per mantenere una promessa fatta a sua madre, malata terminale; Shane, invece, è in cerca di una famiglia e della qualifica di eroe, che spesso lo mette nei guai. Vederli costruire piano, piano una relazione – Mikhail così pieno di spine e Shane così pieno di premure – rende Promesse fatte una bella lettura. ( )

Edit 08/31/16

I've read this book for the FIFTH time now (that I've counted) and it still made me bawl and ache and laugh. Mikhail and Shane are my favorite couple ever.

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Edit 08/30/16



Look at how beautiful Mikhail and Shane are! Now THAT is what I want for this cover too!

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I can't begin to explain how much I love this book. I feel bad about not writing a review, but that's usually how it is with my favorite books. I just can't find the right words. ( )

Recently I have gone through books that just did not have heart, books filled with empty words. But this book (series really), brought hope back that there is some one out there who can write well, give me humor, give me a HEA ending. But not promise that I will be the same after I finish the book.


I know that I am better for having read this wonderful story. Please, won't you do the same?
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With this book I did something that usually is a no-no for me, I read book number 2 in a series without reading book number 1. Truth be told I have a good reason: when I realized it was a book 2 I had already fallen in love for Shane and didn’t want to wait for read his story.

First of all let me say, that yes, you can read book 2 standalone, but indead the supporting characters are so good that is clear they have a story of their own; that is the reason why I realized there was a book 1, it was impossible that men like Deacon and Crick were only a nice addition to a background picture. But I’m able to fall in love at first sight, and even if I’m sure Deacon and Crick have a wonderful love story, and I will try to read it as soon as possible, big but shy Shane had my heart from moment one.

Shane wants to be an hero; that was his dream when he was a child, a lonely child not enough wealthy to be classy, not enough athletic to be cool, only a lonely child whose father’s job as businessman was not enough heroic and the cops he saw around were like real hero. Problem is that at that age Shane didn’t know that L.A. cops can be also very homophobic, and when the suspicion that he is gay arrives to the ears of his chief, Shane is suddently in a very dangerous situation without a back. Even if big and shy, Shane is not stupid, and he is clever enough to call Internal Affairs before going out in what is most likely a suicide attempt. He survives and he has now enough money to live without problem, but the dream to be an hero is still there and he tries again as cop in a small town. Things at work are not better but he makes friends with the odd enlarged family of Deacon and Crick.

While out visiting his sister Shane meets Mikhail, a Russian immigrat leaving with his mother and teaching classic ballet. To Shane’s eyes Mikhail is perfection, from his little tight body to his skill on a stage; but Mikhail has a past that is far from being perfect: former heroine addicted and street hustler to pay for the drugs, Mikhail is still alive only thank to his strong mother, a mother that is now dying from cancer. Mikhail is right there to loosing everything again, and he is not sure he will be able to cope, when Shane enters his life. But Shane is really way to perfect for damaged good like Mikhail and he is reluctant, and cinic, to let him enter his life.

It’s a wonderful love story, Shane will unveal as a strong and stubborn man, true with some self-esteem issue, mostly arriving from his childhood and unloving and uncaring parents, but all in all a sure mainstay for the people he loves. Mikhail wants to be cinic, but he has all the temperament of Russian people, stubborn and proud, but capable of immense love and passion if you manage to go behind their hard shell.

This is a novel that mix smushy moment and heart, in the right moment to make you smile or shed a tear, even if it will not arrive to let you completely in tears, the funny moments will be always right there, to lift the mood.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1615814612/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

4.5 ( )