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A Five Boroughs Story
Raymond Rodriguez's days of shoving responsibility to the wayside are over. His older brother wants to live with his boyfriend, so Raymond has to get his act together and find a place of his own. But when out-and-proud David Butler offers to be his roommate, Raymond agrees for reasons other than needing a place to crash.
David is Raymond’s opposite in almost every way—he’s Connecticut prim and proper while Raymond is a sarcastic longshoreman from Queens—but their friendship is solid. Their closeness surprises everyone as does their not-so-playful flirtation, since Raymond has always kept his bicurious side a secret.
Once they’re under the same roof, flirting turns physical, and soon their easy camaraderie is in danger of being lost to frustrating sexual tension and the stark cultural differences that set them apart. Now Raymond not only has to commit to his new independence—he has to commit to his feelings for David or risk losing him for good.
- Sales Rank: #52730 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-12-11
- Released on: 2015-12-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"While this second novel of Hassell's Five Boroughs novels has all the heat, overwhelming desire and tension that readers have come to expect, he also grounds his tale in very real issues, like class and ethnic divides, social struggles, and the difficulty of growing up, which makes this book feel very real." -- RT Magazine
"This book had, hands down, one of the best first kisses between MCs that I've ever read. I actually felt my mouth drop open and then I went back and reread it AGAIN." -- Gay Book Reviews
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Sunset Park is Spectacular
By Kristie E Sanchez
In all honesty, I’m not sure how to review this book and do it justice. Ever since putting it down the first time, because yes, I’ve read it twice already, I’ve never really stopped thinking about the story, or the characters. Raymond is my ideal kind of guy. Yeah, he’s a bit of a slacker, but he’s trying. He’s also got an adventurous side to him. He’s sexy, curious, self-medicates, is private, a little rough around the edges… But he’s also such loyal a friend and brother. He’s magnetic. I was drawn to him in Sutphin Boulevard, and he never let me go.
David, on the other hand, did not pull me in from book one. Instead, he was this guy who really pissed me off. It took me time to figure him out. For me, David was a guy I wanted to love. I wanted so many things from him, and for him. Instead of him being a magnet, he was repelling me. But little by little, he chipped away at me and I got it. I got him.
A huge draw for me in the book is the friendship Ray and David start with. They each had a common goal in the beginning, and when we start Sunset Park, their friendship has just grown stronger. The closeness they have is tangible. You see it in little looks, touches, things they say, the way they defend and stand up for each other, and the way they move around each other. They have a romance that starts well before this book does, and definitely before they realize what is happening. You see it and feel it on the page, without being told. This friendship started with a strong base. Both of them are so comfortable with each other that when the decision comes to share an apartment, the transition should be easy. And it is, to a point. David is steadfast on offering any and all help to Ray when it comes to getting his life together, and adulting. And Ray is right there for David, being a great friend, listening to him. I think David needed a good friend in his life. Someone that had no been around before. Someone different.
Their problems rise when they start getting intimate. It’s not the intimacy that is the problem, it’s the communication. Neither of them excels in talking about their feelings, and when they do try, arguments start, things are said, and tempers flare. Insecurities they each have played a huge part in their inability to communicate effectively. David is so sure that Ray is only curious and not invested in a relationship with him. He has unresolved issues with his ex, and this burning desire to make everyone happy. Ray, on the other hand, is damn sure of what he wants. He’s just got to convince David, and he really needs to learn to hold that temper.
The frustration Ray and David both have for the situation they find themselves in was also in me. I shouted and cursed so many times. I was shaking my fists over and over until they finally figure it all out. Sometimes it was really hard to deal with, just making the reading experience all the more real. These are men with real feelings, real emotions, and very real circumstances. In life, people get frustrated and say things they don’t mean. They sometimes reduce to childish behavior, talking themselves into the worst bouts of doubt. This realism is another thing I love about this book. I’m not looking for a cookie cutter story with an easy way out. Ray and David had to fight to get what they wanted, and fight they did. It was hard and awful fight that lasted a while, and they hurt each other repeatedly, but along the way there was also sweetness, and beauty. And in the end, they find a happiness that may carry them through time… a happiness that when it’s on, it is seriously exciting and stimulating. They’re full of life and passion that makes me burn to experience the same things.
Something Santino does exceedingly well is put a reader right in the room with his characters. So I’m really looking forward to the next couple books in the series. Looking for tales of other characters who really need their story told. More stories with NYC in the background, pulling me in, making me smell the smells, hear the subway. Telling a new story that’s tangible in a way that I don’t always get out a book.
This is definitely one of my favorite books of the year. I love Sunset Park. Love it, and highly recommend it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Friends to lovers! Fave trope :)
By Elsa Gabriela
4.5 Stars
I found Santino almost two years ago... The very first thing I read about him was his series In The Company Of Shadows which he co-wrote with the wonderful Ais. If one thing can be said about Santino's writing is that he writes dark. He writes gritty. He writes angst. He writes will-you-give-me-a-break-I'm-having-an-anxiety-attack-here kind of books. He writes situations. He writes stories and places people in those stories. Those people have a journey, and in that journey they somehow find love. But while he writes about love, his stories are rarely ever about love alone. His stories are about a bunch of things. About the struggle. About the complexity. About life. About the conquered dreams, and the defeated ones. About finding things in life, but most of all, finding yourself. And that is what makes his books, his characters, his dialogues, so real. There is no over the top with him. It is what it is. And it's... refreshing.
Sunset Park is for sure the first book by Santino Hassell that surprises me because it's so not what I'm used to read by him. There is no grittiness, and there is almost no angst. There is no lost soul, really. There is no struggle to find yourself under a bunch of things that are killing you. The finding yourself journey is still there, though. And it was a lovely trip.
I think it's safe to say that this is, so far, Santino's light read. The book is easy to read. The reader only has to go with the flow, and witness how things slowly fall in place for the MCs.
This is Ray's and David's story. While the book can absolutely be read as a stand alone, I think it'd be best if you read Sutphin Boulevard first, so you have an idea of how much Ray changes from book one to book two, and so you get an idea of David and his struggles.
Ray is bi-curious. I always find myself in disbelief when I read books about a bi-curious guy, and one of the reasons is because this ends up being read (or boxed) as a GFY story. This is not the case here, and I'm very pleased about that. Ray has always been curious about men, but he's never acted on that curiosity. One of the things that stuck with me is that he doesn't really hide himself. He's not hiding that he wants to try it, he just simply doesn't yell it. When the question arises, he's as honest as he can be and, well, either accepts it, or simply doesn't deny it. That was an interesting change, and from that point you can see how his journey could be less troubled. He doesn't resent his attraction, or feels ashamed by it. He doesn't make a huge deal out of it. It is what it is, and he lives it. Like many things in his life Ray is, I think, lazy... about his sexuality. I mean lazy in the sense that because he has what he has (sex with women, which he loves), there is no need to go after men because, well, he enjoys what he's getting... Does that make sense? I think that reflects something that is a common thing in Ray's life. Expectations.
People don't expect much of Ray. He's the pothead without a job who doesn't care for getting a job or even getting his bum off the couch to study. People see him like that, and reafirm that idea, so he just stays where he is because he ends up believing that that's his role in life: being the smarty-pants couch pothead. And he excells at it.
There is one person that sees him differently, though. That person is David.
David came into Ray's life in the first book of the series (Sutphin Boulevard). He's Michael's co-worker (Ray's brother), and when Michael was going through a very rough path, David took a chance and contacted Ray trying to find out how Michael was doing. What started as two guys getting in each others' pockets and driving each other crazy, evolved into David flirting recklessly with Ray, and Ray maybe entertaining the idea that he actually didn't dislike that idea. From that, they became good friends and moved in together.
In the first book David was a pain... And yep, he still is. He still has those ideas that are difficult to understand and make you want to punch him. Repeatedly. He still has trouble letting go of ideals. He still has trouble letting go of people. He still has trouble letting go... Pretty much in general. And no. It's not pretty. And yes. It is frustrating. But... I've been in David's shoes. I know it's possible to act the way he did. I know it's possible to feel as confused and insecure as he felt. So much that you do... Well, dumb things.
David did dumb things. Many. He's difficult to love, but he won me over. Despite this difficulty to love him, I ended up doing it. His fears and insecurities and how those led him to act in a certain way multiple times, sounded sadly familiar to me =[ ..
I loved how their relationship started. There is a clear path there. They met. One flirted. The other one scowled. They became closer. There are absent minded touches. Little details here and there that tell the reader that they are falling. It all reads so natural because it just happens. There are really no second thoughts to Ray playing with David's hair. He just does. No fuss. He likes it. He does it. But I don't think he realized he was doing it.
Then, they end up being roomies. Then the first kiss happens (which, I have to say is probably one of the hottest first kisses I've read because it not only had tons of emotion, but because it was extremely erotic and sensual, more than sexual). Then some playful sexting... HA! You just wait for that one!... and, then, hell breaks loose. In a good way. And I loved it.
But, that's only the start. There is a lot of confusion. There is a lot of miscomunication. There is a lot of both David, and Ray reading each other wrong and just flat out assuming. There is a lot of frustrating moments when I just wanted to put down my kindle and yell at it with a tequila shot in hand. But it was worth it.
In the end both MCs grew immensely. Both found what they needed to do for themselves so they could do good to each other. The trust they had in each other played a major part in this. The fact that David saw Ray in such a different light than the rest of the world saw him, helped Ray to put his s*** together and start doing things for himself. He started to appreciate who he truly was. In contrast, the fact that Ray saw David as something so special, yet, so lost, helped David put order in his life and get his priorities right.
So... This was different, yes. This is not your usual Santino. No. This was almost angst free, yes. This was not a hurricane of emotions flying left and right and making you want to drown because really, it's too much. No. But I am incredibly pleased with the results of this. I will always appreciate when authors take risks. I will always appreciate when authors go sort of out of their comfort zone to write something that is very much unlike them, because it tells me about the author's need to explore their limits. Their boundaries. The only way to know yourself is to explore that self. His writer self did very good with this. So all the kudos for this romance novel.
Now bring on that Caleb person and make me love him!!!! Because right now I am not a fan of him at all.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Loved this relationship drama
By Amazon Customer M
When Michael and Nunzio from the first book in this series decide to move in together, the Rodriguez brothers put the family home up for rent, and Raymond ends up in an apartment with David Butler, Michael's coworker.
Both Raymond and David are working out some issues in their personal lives, while dealing with the growing attraction between them. Raymond needs a new job after losing his job on the docks, and David is still confused and unsure about where Caleb, (his ex) fits into his life.
I love that this story is told in alternating points of view between Raymond and David, mostly because both men really need to get it together before they can consider a relationship together. David is insecure when it comes to Raymond, thinking that he's just curious about being with another man and not really serious about doing anything more than scratching an itch.
Raymond is at a critical crossroad in his life, stuck in a boring office job he hates, exploring his growing feelings for David, and basically just trying to find his direction in life. It's not an easy road for either of them, especially when it comes to their relationship as roommates and potential lovers. There's a whole bunch of miscommunication and assumptions in this story, just like in real life relationships.
That's what I love about this series. It isn't afraid to show how people really do miscommunicate with each other, and what impact that can have. There's no perfect world in this series and that's the attraction for me. The dialogue sings with honesty, even when David and Raymond are struggling to be honest with each other.
There's a really nice build-up to the big explosion at the end, and I couldn't be more happy about how everything turns out. It's not going to be a smooth ride for David and Raymond, but there's love and that put a big smile on my face as I finished the final sentences of this story.
Santino Hassell is a new author for me. I've read the two books in the Five Boroughs series just this week, but I will be looking for more from this author.
Oh, and kudos on the cover. I love it when the cover image matches well with the content.
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