Thanks For Everything by Shawn Bailey Published by Phaze Books Publication Date: July 16, 2015
Pages: 212
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Tired, hungry and cold, eighteen-year-old orphan Kai Turner must resort to digging in the trash cans for food and sleeping on the streets just to survive. Kicked out of the home of his foster parents when his state support check ran out, Kai now has to fend for himself with just a backpack filled with his only belongs.
How was he going to get a job with just a high school diploma, no marketable skills, and no roof over his head? It would be easier just to walk out in a path of a car and just end it all.
Giancarlo Rossi took one look at the unconscious youth lying on the sidewalk where he’d fell and wondered how someone so young could have ended up homeless. He’d been watching him begging for money most of the day and huddling in corners the rest of the time to escape the frosty November weather in just a threadbare jacket.
Something in his heart broke. What parent in their right mind could just throw away a child?
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I had DNF this book. I tried very hard to get into it, and it was just impossible. The characters were wooden and unlikable. The writing was felt almost like it was translated from another language, and it was stilted and difficult to read. Also, and this may just be a personal thing, once it’s obvoius that the MC’s are going to be a couple, even though they’ve not acknowledged it, I simply cannot accept one of them bringing home a “host boy” and having very LOUD sex with them as the other is forced to listen from his room. Yes…they may not be “together” yet, but in my opinion, that’s cheating. I had to stop when the character who brought that other man home was jealous that the other went on a date. He got extremely drunk and became belligerent and cruel…saying things that were just horrible. As if that’s not enough, the other man begs him to make love to him AFTER that.
I’ve never written a review where I’ve given a 1. I always try to finish what I started, but with this one, I just couldn’t.
