Designs of Desire
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Desires Entwined: Book One
Artist James Bryant has forearm crutches in every color from rainbow for fun to sleek black for business. He even has a pair with more paint splatters than metal. After his family’s rejection and abuse from a man he thought loved him, James only just gets through the day by painting. He lives in constant fear that he’s not worthy of anything, let alone love.
As CEO of his company, Carrington Enterprises, Seth Burns is a take-charge kind of guy, and he is instantly smitten by the artist helping with his newest project. When he witnesses James suffer a panic attack, a protective instinct he never knew he had kicks in. He truly believes nothing is unobtainable—including James—if he’s willing to put in the time and effort.
James is shy and confused by Seth’s interest in him as a person. With Seth’s support, can he work through his fears to finally find the true love he deserves, or will someone finally land the crushing blow he won’t survive?
Customer Reviews
Sweet
A sweet story, though a little too saccharin sweet for my liking apart from some sour moments when enemies of James make themselves known.
Another issue I have is with the seemingly old fashioned and stilted way the characters converse with each other. In this day and age, so many words are contracted: I’ll for I will, I’m for I am, we’re for we are, etc, yet not many contractions are used in the conversations, making the reading choppy and unrythmical and making it difficult for me to lose myself in the story.
And lastly, ‘drug’? As in, “Rhys drug Joey away”. Is that even a word used in that context? Shouldn’t that read, “Rhys dragged Joey away”? Hmm. Maybe the former is accepted in American English. Strange, different, unusual.