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A Foothills Pride Story

Big, burly CEO Abe Behr is dismayed to discover someone—possibly a family member—is stealing from Behr Construction, which primarily employs Behr relatives. Abe takes the unprecedented step of hiring an outsider, likeable CPA Jeff Mason, to go over the books and help find the culprit. They are drawn to each other as they talk to workers, including Abe’s two younger brothers and their shifty cousin.

Since he has sacrificed romance all his life to build the business, Abe’s surprised by his feelings for the handsome Jeff. He’s even more shocked when they are confronted by bigotry in the Sierra Nevada foothills community, which is being inundated by gays moving from the San Francisco area. As he and Jeff get closer, Abe must come to grips with coming out to a family and community that aren’t very tolerant. Fortunately, being the head Behr helps him find his footing and grab onto love when it bites him.

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Release dateOct 28, 2015
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    I wrote the book, so I love it!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    Book – Behr Facts (Foothills Pride #3)
    Author – Pat Henshaw
    Star rating - ★★★☆☆
    No. of Pages – 92

    Cover – Nice
    POV – 1st person, 1 character
    Would I read it again – Yes

    Genre – LGBT, Contemporary, Romance


    ** I WAS GIVEN THIS BOOK, BY DREAMSPINNER PRESS, IN RETURN FOR AN HONEST REVIEW **
    Reviewed for Divine Magazine


    By book three, I feel like I'm repeating myself. I feel almost like I just need to copy and paste the same issues from the previous books into each review, because they're as much a pattern for this series as they are plot arc's. By now, however, it would just be nice to break out of the box and explore a new idea for a while.

    Again, we have the following concepts repeated here, as they were in previous books:
    • homophobic hate crime element
    • insta-love
    • everyone is connected to everyone
    • slipping into present tense and talking to the reader

    And, yes, I still missed the whole romantic “getting to know each other” which was all kept off page and would have been nice to see and explore. And, yes, again it would have been great to expand this story into a novel and see more of the things that really matter.

    One of our MC's this time was asexual. I don't have a problem with an asexual character ending up in a relationship, even if sex is involved. I know that some people consider themselves asexual, because they don't know any better. They've had a bad childhood or have been too busy, with not enough guidance to really think about relationships, so they think it's entirely natural for them to have no romantic drive or sex drive. Then, when they meet someone who changes all of that, it's a total revelation. As someone who is asexual myself, I've read and written characters who believe they're asexual, some who are, only to be shocked when a relationship hits them out of the blue.

    However, my problem here is that like so many other things in this series/book (since the two are becoming interchangeable now, each one exactly the same, just with new characters and situations) – the progression of the relationship, the sex, the 'getting to know you' – it wasn't explored properly. It was almost used as a gimmick to make sure that Abe had no clue how to interact with a guy he liked and that he was a virgin. Neither concept was explored fully, since we only saw him stumble over maybe one or two conversations and the fact that he was a virgin was, like the asexuality, an afterthought. It was mentioned once or twice, but was never really a fundamental part of the plot or Abe, in that it needed to be talked about, especially with Jeff. As far as we know, Jeff never knew he was asexual or that he was a virgin, even though it sounds as if Abe bottomed. Which, in the broad scheme of things, is something that we should have at least seen them talk about. He was a virgin, for one, but he also thought himself asexual, so how did that conversation go, exactly, when they were deciding who would top or bottom?

    I never really warmed up to Abe, since he was always put across as this dumb-as-a-rock, introverted guy who didn't talk or socialise, but worked non stop and didn't have a life. He was an uninspiring MC, with Jeff adding a little bit of spark, but not nearly enough to endear me to these two as a couple.

    I really liked seeing more of Junior and hope he gets his own story, but I really, really hope it also deviates from the formula for a while.

    Overall, this one is a 3 because I'm getting a little tired of the routine plot performance. There's always a crime, mostly inspired by homophobia, there's always the uncertain relationship that we never get to see develop and the sex that happens off page is always fantastic and never anything but spellbinding, even when it involves virgins. Add on the insta-love, with characters claiming to love each other after just a few days or weeks, and it's all a little cookie cutter for me. It was fine for one or two stories, but when it leaks into three, then probably four and five as well, it becomes too unbelieveable. For once, I'd just like for something to go wrong or for the couple to not profess their love by 80% or sooner. Or, not at all, would be nice.

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    “I watched his hand fold quietly over mine. He gave my hand a squeeze, and I saw stars. My breath caught. When I looked up, he was staring at me, and I couldn't read his face. Nobody'd ever looked at me like he was...like he was searching for the real me under the bulky body and unruly hair. What did it mean?”

    “Change was in the air, and I took a long, satisfied whiff of it.”