Drawn Together edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks
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Re-release of bestelling 2009 novel - What happens when Rory travels halfway across the country to meet the girl of his dreams? Certainly not what he expected...
Rory's just be a simple southern boy from St. Antoine's Parish, Louisiana, but he knows what he wants -- the girl of his dreams, reclusive and mysterious artist Ran Yamane. He's loved her since junior high school, and now he has the chance to meet her. He chucks everything and travels 1,500 miles to Anime Expo in Long Beach just so he can tell her. He's determined that nothing and nobody are going to stand in his way.
Turns out, Ran Yamane isn't a girl, but he gets that a lot. People come to him with teddy bears and chocolates and disappointment by the truckload. He's trusted fans in the past and paid the price. So when he meets Rory he is understandably wary, but resigned. He isn't prepared for his magnetic attraction to the young man, Rory's apparent willingness to overlook his gender, and the chaos that ensues when his number one fan (and psycho stalker) shows up to get revenge.
Drawn Together edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks
Artists speak to some people the way writers speak to me; I loved reading about Rory's adoration for Ran Yamane's work as an artist because I could understand how something another person created could transcend your consciousness to a place you never imagined you could go. There are some talents which burn bright enough to light up all the stars in the sky for even the dimmest of eyes. I truly believe Yamane was that talent for Rory.I expected to find this a very meet-cute type story since the premise is basically Rory thinks he's going to be all heroic Southern gentleman and sexy Cajun charm for a shy Japanese maiden only to find out Yamane is no maiden in need of saving. I was surprised by how Yamane had a sudden about-face when he realized Rory was determined to give him the flowers he'd brought for his fantasy maiden. I wasn't quite sure where the story was going from there in terms of their connection to each other. I think that's what made this such an enjoyable read for me.
There was a new surprise around every corner.
Amelia was a fabulous villain. I loved how she brought out the best in Rory and, in a way, allowed him to embrace who he had been all along since it was her threats which drove him to trying desperately to save Yamane from her. Ethan brought me insane joy with his casual dude-talk with Rene the Sheriff. I thought the entire stalker arc was handled very well on the whole.
I also liked they didn't immediately rush back into one another's arms for an easy Happy-Ever-After. They were both reluctant to be in a relationship. They both had their own hang-ups and insecurities about being together. I liked that the author gave both men a chance to make a real informed decision before trying to make a go of a relationship together. I thought the Epilogue was icing on the cake, to be honest, and now all I want to know are two things:
1. What's Rory's real first name?
2. Why hasn't everyone I know read this already?
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Drawn Together edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I'm embarrassed. This is probably the fifth review I've written in the last ten days of a Z. A. Maxfield book. I'm turning into an embarrassing, gushing fanboy. I promise, this is the last Maxfield review I'll write until... some other Maxfield book compells me to share my joy in her work, I guess.
Each book I read by this brilliant author just reassures me that there is a future for gay fiction.
It's not that the sex in the books turns me on, or the characters, or the happily-ever-afters. It's the writing. I'm a serious reader (and at times in the past, writer), I revere the written word and hold in awe those few who have the genius to wrap those words around my soul. In the gay fiction genres, there are just a handful of authors whose work delights and moves me like that Abigail Roux, Andrew Grey, Josh Lanyon, Adrienne Wilder, Jordan Hawk, and now, at the top of that list, Z. A. Maxfield.
Some think that Dickens was the greatest writer of opening lines, with "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times". But this book may have an even better one
"It was a grim fact of life, Rory discovered as he wiped mustard off his hands with a napkin, that the further you disappeared into rural America, the less strange it seemed when you talked to your food. He'd just finished having a conversation with a gas-station corn dog."
At least this one made me laugh out loud.
Z. A. Maxfield, and particularly this remarkable book, "Drawn Together", are so original, so wonderful, so passionate that I hated to have it end. And this one is a thriller, believe it or not! Think "gay James Lee Burke". There were many moments when I laughed out loud, others when a tear fell, surprising even myself.
It is the story of a tall, and very straight, good-old-boy (although one with a year of graduate school in languages) who goes on a bizarre quest to meet and claim the anime artist whose work has spoken so deeply to his soul for years. Lo-and-behold, at the end of his cross-country journey, he meets the lovely Yamane-Ran, only to discover that the reclusive artist is not a she, but a he. Talk about rocking someone's world! The rest of the book is about his self-discovery, his falling in love with a man (or anyone else, for that matter) for the first time, and the two of them evading an obsessed fan, a woman who escaped the mental institution where she had been committed after kidnapping and torturing Yamane some years before.
"Drawn Together" has a wonderfully original premise, deep and developing characters and vivid local color from L. A. to the Bayou to Las Vegas. No standard gay romance themes for Ms. Maxfield, just two stunningly original characters finding love and saving each other. It just doesn't get any better.
If you haven't read Ms. Maxfield's work, run to your keyboard to download any of her books. You will not be disappointed.
As for me, I love to see talent, even more, genius, and Ms. Maxfield has given me many hours, this last two weeks, of pure, unadulterated reading pleasure. May she write many, many more books.
There was so much wrong with this book that I don't know where to begin! The plot was convolute, the DIALOGUE was inexplicable.. It was difficult to know who was saying what to whom and WHY. The characters and said things that made no sense. Nobody in this book behaved like a real person and that includes the secondary characters and even random characters. Threads in the plot are picked up and abandoned, the pacing was choppy. And the relationship between the characters was absolutely absurd. I get very creeped out when characters start claiming how much they love someone without taking the reader for the ride and before they even know eachother. Frankly it was totally underdeveloped and the characterization was non-existent. Instead of SHOWING the author just TELLS you. Lazy writing and I wish I could get my money back. I finally abandoned an attempt to finish the book halfway through after reading a scene of NONCONSENUAL sex between the two main characters. Im shocked that the reviews on this book are so high, it was the worst thing I've ever read and I wish I could erase it from my mind. If you want to know how NOT to write a book just do everything that's done in this one.
Artists speak to some people the way writers speak to me; I loved reading about Rory's adoration for Ran Yamane's work as an artist because I could understand how something another person created could transcend your consciousness to a place you never imagined you could go. There are some talents which burn bright enough to light up all the stars in the sky for even the dimmest of eyes. I truly believe Yamane was that talent for Rory.
I expected to find this a very meet-cute type story since the premise is basically Rory thinks he's going to be all heroic Southern gentleman and sexy Cajun charm for a shy Japanese maiden only to find out Yamane is no maiden in need of saving. I was surprised by how Yamane had a sudden about-face when he realized Rory was determined to give him the flowers he'd brought for his fantasy maiden. I wasn't quite sure where the story was going from there in terms of their connection to each other. I think that's what made this such an enjoyable read for me.
There was a new surprise around every corner.
Amelia was a fabulous villain. I loved how she brought out the best in Rory and, in a way, allowed him to embrace who he had been all along since it was her threats which drove him to trying desperately to save Yamane from her. Ethan brought me insane joy with his casual dude-talk with Rene the Sheriff. I thought the entire stalker arc was handled very well on the whole.
I also liked they didn't immediately rush back into one another's arms for an easy Happy-Ever-After. They were both reluctant to be in a relationship. They both had their own hang-ups and insecurities about being together. I liked that the author gave both men a chance to make a real informed decision before trying to make a go of a relationship together. I thought the Epilogue was icing on the cake, to be honest, and now all I want to know are two things
1. What's Rory's real first name?
2. Why hasn't everyone I know read this already?
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