Review: Luke & Aiden by Susan Reeves

Luke & Aiden by Susan Reeves
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Luke & Aiden is the first book in the Shire Boys series. It is set in Australia and is about two young men coming out and growing up.

This was a totes adorb story up until the end where there was a shocking event. It is written very young, older teen or young adult style. And it has little sex. More sweet and cute than anything.

Sweet young guys Luke and Aiden meet in a hospital but between the pregnant woman that might be Aiden's wife and the surgery Luke has to go to, their timing is off. Six months later when they meet up again, they both jump at the chance to go past the eye-fuck stage.

Innocent and sweet dating between these two virgins follows (with assorted handjobs and frottage, but no penetrative sex). Aiden and Luke are so cute together and their families are great.

Some of the lines in the book were hilarious and clever. Very evocative.

There was a bit much Australian slang, sometimes it made it difficult to understand, but I just left a web search up and looked up things while I read. Australian slang is a bit fascinating to me though, so it bothered me less than it might other people. I think cantaloupes being called rockmelons is kinda awesome and finding out about another culture is always a plus.

Honestly, this would definitely be a good book for young gay men to read. Society makes being gay all about sex instead of relationships, but while the two main characters are hot and horny young men, they are interested in each other just as much as the sex. Between porn and the pretty-much-porn many romance novels are, it's good to show the boys that that's not all there is to a relationship.