Love Means...No Shame

by Andrew Grey

Series: Farm (#1)

Published by: Dreamspinner Press

September 14th, 2009

Genre: GLBTQ Romance

Format: eBook
Source: Purchased

Rating: 2 Stars

     Geoff is in the city, living the gay life to the hilt, when his father's death convinces him to return to the family farm. Discovering a young Amish man asleep in his barn, Geoff learns that Eli is spending a year away from the community before accepting baptism into the church. Despite their mutual attraction, Geoff is determined not to become involved with him, but Eli has discovered that Geoff shares his feelings and begins to court him, neatly capturing first Geoff's attention and then his heart.

     Their budding relationship is threatened by closed-minded, gossipy relatives and the society at large, a whole new world to Eli, and he must decide whether to return to the community, his family, and the world and future he knows or to stay with Geoff and have faith in the power of love.

     I started this book loving the story but as it went on I started to lose enthusiasm. I liked that it was told on 3rd person POV and that it got us started with a little background story in Goeff. I loved the fact that it wasn't insta love (nothing wrong with that but most books have it) and that it took many months for the characters to act on their attraction.

     I started to lose hope in this book when it took too long for them to act on their attraction. They had meaningful kisses, explosive kisses even, that were orgasmic as the author described them and then...nothing. No heavy petting, no rubbing, nothing. It took until after 60% of the book for something to actually happen and then it was just once or twice and then the book was done.

     Also, there was the fact that the author kept writing that Eli "vibrated". It always made me think of BOB. Seriously just say he shivered or something. He's not a cat!

     I liked the story and I found some interesting things in it but please I need more sexy times and less blah blah time thank you very much.