His Kindred Spirit by Sloan Johnson

His Kindred Spirit by Sloan Johnson
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short Story (131 pages)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Dane has built his life around not relying on anyone but himself. When he travels from New York City to North Carolina at the request of his estranged, incarcerated father, he learns truths he’d rather not know… along with inheriting a share in his grandfather’s inn. But the place comes with complications, including a man he will have to walk away from—but can’t help falling for.

When you are burned out with job and viagra sans prescription obligations at residential home, your resistance and appeal for sex suffers. Since, viagra cost it can indisputably prove unsafe to their life. Even a day of order cialis online stress can cause dropdown in male potency and lessen power of male’s junior. It is usually order viagra seen in young people, most commonly during their puberty stages. Brook has only known romance through notes left in a mailbox at the end of the beach. When he’s tasked with showing his boss’s gorgeous nephew what makes Sunset Beach and Bird Island special, he’s compelled to take Dane to his favorite place.

Dane never wanted the inn, but when it’s threatened, he steps up to defend it… and keep the man he’s coming to love by his side and in his life. But first they’ll have to clean up Dane’s uncle’s mess.

Dane had taken a few hard knocks in life, but nothing shocked him more when his father reconnected with Dane’s uncle. Wanting a fresh start, Dane’s father asks Dane to go and check this near-stranger out and make sure it’s a suitable place for them to set down some roots. Brook had worked at the inn for his entire career and was not thrilled to be babysitting what he expected would be a spoiled little city boy who would waste both their time. Dane and Brook soon both discover neither of them had been right in their assumptions.

I found this to be a really interesting, character-driven M/M romance. Both Dane and Brook’s characters appealed to me almost immediately, and while I wasn’t convinced for some time that they’d make a great long-term couple, I desperately wanted to see them both come together, interact and fall in love. The plot isn’t very complicated and while I found it interesting, I personally feel that the real hero of the story is the relationship that flourishes between Dane and Brook, and the beach-side setting. Readers looking for an intensely hot and heavy story probably won’t feel there’s enough spice in the relationship between the two men, but personally I felt that their slower pace and more steamy (rather than sexy) romance really suited the slow town and beachy setting.

I enjoyed the strong cast of secondary characters – Dane’s best friend, Grady, in particular. I also was quite surprised but really pleased that Dane’s father (who is off-screen and serving out the last bit of his jail term) also was a very strong character influencing the entire story. It’s been quite a while since I can recall reading a book where a character who isn’t even on the stage was both lifelike and strongly influential in a story and that is a major credit to the author’s talent that they made Dane’s father so memorable.

Equal parts sweet and sensual, I thoroughly enjoyed this story and can strongly recommend it. While there’s no lingering single characters, I’d actually really like a follow-up story, maybe showing Dane and Brook a few years down the track after the ending of this story. This is one of those rare stories where the moment I finish it I feel wistful, wishing equally that there was more left to read and also wanting to immediately go back to the start and experience it all over again from page one. A really excellent read and one I feel is well worth every moment lost to it.