Doves Love in Los Angeles Book 2 edition by Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Literature Fiction eBooks
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J. Alex Cook never wanted to be famous, he just wanted to get out of Indiana. Now two years after the events of Starling, Hollywood's brightest star is living happily ever after with his boyfriend, television writer Paul Marion Keane. But when Paul’s pilot, Winsome, AZ, gets picked up, the competing demands of their high-profile careers make them question their future together.
As Paul becomes increasingly absent from their relationship, Alex tries to regain control of his private life and establish a career path independent of Fourth's enigmatic, and at times malevolent, showrunner Victor. But the delicate web of relationships that connects Alex, Paul, and their friends — including Alex's excitable ex-lover Liam and his no-nonsense fiancée Carly — threatens to unravel.
With the business of Hollywood making it hard to remember who he is when the whole world isn’t watching, Alex is forced to confront major changes in the fairy tale life he never wanted as he discovers that love in Los Angeles often looks nothing like the movies.
Please be aware, this is a high-heat, high-angst romance and includes characters with a past history of self-harm.
This title was previously published by Torquere Press. This is a newly updated and revised edition. Doves is book two in the Love in Los Angeles series.
Doves Love in Los Angeles Book 2 edition by Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Literature Fiction eBooks
I loved this book. It's gritty and complex and extremely well written. The story arcs for the characters, in context of a longer series, make a lot of sense; a lot of the issues we saw the characters struggle with in Starling didn't magically go away -- these characters need to grow and learn. Relationships are hard, and I love that we got to see them struggle to make it work, with their own issues.The *only* reason this didn't get five stars is because it was a darker story, and there are elements that are still hard for me to process. I cannot really understand Victor, and I'm not sure I want to get into his head space.
I read quickly, so I finished this in one day. That said, I do need to go back and re-read to really peel layers back and appreciate the lovely brights spots that are in there. The ending is really a *lovely* happy ending, so the journey and it's ups and downs are so well worth it.
As with Starling, the authors do a fantastic jobs of showing and not telling -- so much so that as a reader, I was sometimes really wondering what was going on under the words or actions of a character. But I love that, because it really engaged me, it makes me think, it deepens my investment in the characters and the stories. That's not easy to do -- excellent writing.
If you haven't read Starling, go go go! I am so in love with these characters, and I cannot wait to see what happens in the next book in the series, Phoenix!
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I loved Starling, which was book one of this series, but combined with Doves, that love goes up to another level entirely and becomes full-on, fandom-creating obsession.
Is this a romance novel? I'm still not sure. It is, first and foremost, a novel about relationships. Many of those relationships include sex, or include something that is more or less similar to sex, or used to include sex but don't any more. Some are only ("only") friendships, though, and others are professional working relationships. Some of the relationships are fictional (even within the fictional world of the novel), existing only in the heads of the actors, or at a step removed, only in the heads of the fans of those actors.
Sometimes it's about a relationship between a person and his job -- and that relationship can involve something that looks like sex too, including sleeping over at the office, sometimes even out of town, or neglecting your human relationships while you tend to that one.
But this isn't a love story, start to finish, about one person finding their one beloved (except when it is), and attempts to shoehorn it into that model are ... well, just awkward. It's so much more than that.
The truly fantastic thing about this series is that the relationships portrayed in the books are complex in ways that ring very, very true. Fictional relationships are often oversimplified, with the details and complications wiped out in service of a clear trajectory for the plot. But in Starling and Doves, the complexities are right there, unavoidably in the faces of the people who cannot escape them (whether they want to or not). Ex-lovers are friends and colleagues, people you cannot stand work closely with your partner, life decisions sometimes require the consent or at least benevolent understanding of a dozen different people.
In the hands of less gifted writers, this tangled web of relationships might become confusing and unbelievable. Certainly one of the hardest parts of reading these books, for me, is keeping track of all the characters and their connections. But the way Maltese and McRae have constructed the entire thing, with compelling characters who have strikingly different goals and attitudes, it multiplies my interest exponentially. I want to reread and reread until I can completely understand what everyone is thinking, exactly the way I want to do with my favorite TV shows and the characters I love from those. I don't want to just read about them. I want to know them in my own mind.
This is not an easy book, first in the way I have already described, and second because there are some scenes that are quite disturbing (but not in the sexual way that you might expect from the cover image and from the marketing of this as a romance novel). One of the underlying themes of this book is the concept of consent and the inability to say no, and I think it's dramatically enhanced by portraying that message almost completely outside of any kind of sexual context -- all while contrasting it to the ability to consent or not on sexual matters. But be warned, there are two or three places in this book where I had to put it down just to clear my head, because it's disturbing in ways that are unexpected and hard to describe.
I'm being somewhat mysterious because I don't want to give away plot, and that's for good reasons. These books are absolutely incredible, and I highly recommend them both. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
The second book in this series takes you past the giddy "oh my god this is actually happening" stage of love. It deals with all those fiddly complicated bits of love, the parts you have to work at and the parts that are hard to do when you're a grown up with history. Things like navigating family history and the difficulties of career change and upheaval. I suppose this means I've become an adult because I'm really interested in how the characters navigate their damage to try to keep their relationship solid. It is especially interesting to note the differences between Paul & Alex, their experiences, their histories and how that impacts the way they approach this relationship.
This might be my favorite all the stories if only for the parts of Paul we get to see and the things we learn about his history. I love Paul for a lot of reasons, not limited to the fact there's a cricket barn in my family history.
This feels like such a genuine thing - all these people are vivid and real to me. I love the characters, from the main players down to the smaller side characters.
(In the interests of disclosure, I recieved an advance copy of this because I know the authors and I did also buy a digital copy.)
I loved this book. It's gritty and complex and extremely well written. The story arcs for the characters, in context of a longer series, make a lot of sense; a lot of the issues we saw the characters struggle with in Starling didn't magically go away -- these characters need to grow and learn. Relationships are hard, and I love that we got to see them struggle to make it work, with their own issues.
The *only* reason this didn't get five stars is because it was a darker story, and there are elements that are still hard for me to process. I cannot really understand Victor, and I'm not sure I want to get into his head space.
I read quickly, so I finished this in one day. That said, I do need to go back and re-read to really peel layers back and appreciate the lovely brights spots that are in there. The ending is really a *lovely* happy ending, so the journey and it's ups and downs are so well worth it.
As with Starling, the authors do a fantastic jobs of showing and not telling -- so much so that as a reader, I was sometimes really wondering what was going on under the words or actions of a character. But I love that, because it really engaged me, it makes me think, it deepens my investment in the characters and the stories. That's not easy to do -- excellent writing.
If you haven't read Starling, go go go! I am so in love with these characters, and I cannot wait to see what happens in the next book in the series, Phoenix!
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