Too Close to Touch | Georgia Beers

Too Close to Touch | Georgia Beers | Everyday Love Issues

books:

Too Close to Touch

	Too Close to Touch Georgia Beers Bold Strokes Books, 2006 - 230 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Great Book!

Book came fast and really was a great read! The first Georgia Beers book that i have read, though wont be the last!

Everyday Love Issues

A woman falls in love with her boss, a high-powered executive whose fear of commitment has previously kept her from truly loving anyone.

Groundbreaking Material

One reason this book succeeds is that the protagonists are so unique. Gretchen Kaiser, a successful executive in her forties, has not resolved her childhood issue that her father refused to acknowledge even her most basic need for recognition. As a result she is driven to ever higher levels of achievement while a loving relationship eludes her. Seemingly incapable of giving or receiving love, she routinely engages in casual sex with an endless string of women.

Kylie O'Brien is intelligent and compassionate. She is an attractive woman of thirty-seven who lives alone and has been celibate since the end of her last relationship over a year ago. She enjoys the company of her loving family and is prepared to continue her life alone if the right person doesn't come into her life.

When the two women meet and feel an immediate and intense attraction to each other, they struggle to deny it, then to avoid acting on it. But tragedy and necessity draw them closer together, until their personal issues can no longer be ignored. As the story unfolds, it becomes a heart-warming tale of the journey of two women toward personal growth. This book is sure to be remembered as a "first" in lesbian literature.

for more information click here

Beers All Around

I really liked this novel! I had never read a Georgia Beers novel before but this won't be the last. She built her character profiles slowly and subtly allowing us become intimate with the characters. She built her romance in the same way allowing us to feel what the characters felt. Although sex was not the driving force of the novel, there were a few (enough to make it interesting) smoldering "page turners." I read it in one sitting. I literally didn't want to put it down. I think a sequel with Gretchen and Kylie would be interesting with some relationship conflicts to see how the couple weathers the storm.

for more information click here

Fine reading entertainment - 3.5 stars

This is the first book I've read by this author, and I was pleasantly surprised by her deft handling of character and plot. She really got everything she could emotionally out of the situation, and I agree with other reviewers who said that the sexual tension was built up deliciously, and handled well.

The characters had good chemistry, a rich family life, friends...they were 3-dimensional. I also like that we got a sort of epilogue in the last chapter where loose ends were tied up, but where we also got a glimpse of how the future of these characters will work out. It was cute.

It wasn't perfect. It was interesting to read about characters in their 40s, but it was a bit frustrating to have them dithering like teenagers at points rather than acting like adults. There were some contrivances and cliches, and the ending was headed to "happily ever after" but wasn't quite there. But perhaps some of these weaknesses were strengths, showing that actions and reactions are universal, and don't fade with maturity.

I was pleased with the overall quality, and I'm considering looking up other efforts by this author on the strength of this outing.

for more information click here

reviews: page 1, 2, 3

products you might be interested in