Beat Of His Heart by Victoria Vallo

Beat Of His Heart by Victoria Vallo
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short story (72 pages)
Other: M/M
Rating: 3 stars
Reviewed by Fern

When Killian’s band gets its big break, he can’t contain his excitement. He assumes everyone is going to be thrilled, including the drummer, his boyfriend Malcolm. Killian can’t wait to get out of their small town so they won’t have to hide their relationship anymore. But Malcolm is skeptical and feels college is a safer bet than touring with the band, and he wants Killian to stick to their original plan and go to school with him. So they part ways, both feeling hurt and abandoned.

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Killian and Malcolm used to play together in a band and had needed to hide their love for each other in their small town. But when their band is offered a recording contract Malcolm just can’t reconcile blowing off college – and his scholarship. Angry and hurt, Killian pushes Malcolm away and the two break up on bad terms. Ten years later Malcolm’s band needs a new member and Killian is offered the opportunity. Can the two men come back together?

I was a little disappointed that the prologue to this story felt a bit disjointed to me. Despite their youth – both men were eighteen – it didn’t ring very true to me that Killian was immature enough to not be able to express himself, and his love for Malcolm in particular, or convey his real feelings. I could understand a teenager a few years younger lashing out angrily and being too confused to express themselves, but since Killian – and Malcolm – were both quite mature in most other respects this felt more like a plot device aimed at driving a wedge between the two men, rather than something that felt real and logical.

After this, however, the book really picked up and I enjoyed it a lot more. Despite the changes in the grown-up Killian I was actually impressed and glad that he could admit to his own part in the break up. I could understand if some readers aren’t immediately taken with the bitter, far more angry Killian than the head-in-the-clouds teenager he’s first presented at, but the character felt far more realistic, mature and understandable to me. And Killian admitting to himself almost immediately upon re-meeting Malcolm about his share of the blame for their breaking up appealed a lot to me.

I enjoyed the stalker sub-plot. While some readers might find it a bit intense I thought it added a good amount of conflict and drama while still being realistic. I also really appreciated how it made Killian see clearly how badly he’d treated people – and also how it opened Killian’s eyes to what Malcolm and Killian’s other band members/friends had been trying to convey to him for years.

Emotional and intense in areas, I found this to be an interesting and strongly erotic romance. There were quite a few issues that I felt were mostly well-handled and I feel this was a good read.