I have opinions about writing styles. But, for a good story, I shove those opinions sideways into a wall so I can read despite them. Out Of The Blues has been waiting in my wish list since I read the amazon sample months ago. I started it yesterday, paused at the epilogue at 3 AM, and read that after six hours of sleep. I found it hard to slow down but necessary despite the author's apparent aversion to commas. The structure is alternating POV, all first person. It's an immediate, in-your-face choice, a little confusing but only momentarily. And, where too often sex scenes in romance are point by point positions and sounds, in this novel they are INTENSE. Every action is under the emotional and physical response overload of two men hella-attracted but fighting it.

I'm glad I read other romances and learned what I prefer and why before reading this one. Lack of commas and run-on sentences and a little confusion here and there are all worth an increasingly complex plot with messy characters in love and denial. ( )

The setting of the story is a small Georgia town that had a lot of bad memories for Mason. He swore he would NEVER go back, but that's where his twin sister had decided to get married, so here he was, for better or for worse and right off the bat ...he found the worse staring him in the face in the form of Kirby, a retired Marine...out of the closet, out of the universe, gay as an Easter parade man that he was sharing the last vacant room in town with. I won't go into the unbelievable plot twists that take place almost immediately upon the two guys meeting and sizing one another up. Lets' just leave it at "unbelievable"...unless I misread it and Mason and Kirby are actually not human but two dogs in heat. Overall, in a little over 350 pages you have possible incest, crazy love triangles, suicide, child molestation, rape, disregarded homophobia, and possibly the worst negligent parents on Earth. I had to keep reading to see what crazy, off the wall thing, was going to take place next. The last 25% is nothing but one big angst fest with numerous participants. You now have this wacky story in a nutshell. I'm still trying to figure out if it was supposed to be a comedy. I'm glad I didn't buy this book, but it got 3 stars for the most twisted, unbelievable plot I think I have ever read. ( )