Triage edition by Louise Blaydon Literature Fiction eBooks
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When Christian first meets Jordan and Ezra, they're all young and lucky, thrown together in a journalist internship that cements their friendship for life. But when the internship ends, everything falls apart.
Christian has always loved Jordan, though he’s sure he doesn't have a chance. By Jordan's wedding, Christian has feelings for Ezra too. Then Ezra leaves on a foreign assignment, and Christian resigns himself to loneliness and concentrates on his job.
But his professional success comes with crushing personal blows. When an accident kills Jordan's wife, Christian becomes Jordan’s only support. Months spent so close to him take their toll on Christian’s heart. Then Ezra finally comes home and Christian realizes he has to make a choice give up on both of them and try to move on… or take a chance that's risky, crazy—and his only shot.
Triage edition by Louise Blaydon Literature Fiction eBooks
When a book holds your interest and instead of fixing dinner you have to read 'just a little bit more', you know you have a winner. TRIAGE did just that for me. Christian, Jordan, and Ezra, three men who formed a strong bond while serving a journalism internship, head off on their individual quests for success. Christian and Jordan become news anchors at the same station while Ezra, an accomplished photographer is off on assignment in the Middle East. Life events bring them together in a well written account of their journey towards each other. This is definitely a page turner and I look forward to reading more from this author.Product details
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Triage edition by Louise Blaydon Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Warning This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating 8/10
PROS
- The writing is unusual. The analogies and the way in which Blaydon phrases things often took me by surprise. In a good way. (see cons below also)
- There's an insightful, melancholy feel to the story that matches its content very well. (The characters weather several weighty experiences that give them all a world-weary outlook on life.)
- The story evolves slowly from friendship to attraction/love. I used that slash intentionally, because by the time anything physical happens between any of the guys, they're all best friends and basically already in love with each other.
- Because the physical development occurs so far into the relationship, the sex is really hot passionate and fierce and emotional.
CONS
- The unusual cadence of the writing makes for some pretty dense reading at times, because the phrasing is often on the convoluted side. There are a lot of lengthy paragraphs and not as much dialogue as there usually is in romances.
- The story is written in present tense, which means that flashbacks are related in simple past tense. One flashback is particularly long, and I got used to the past tense there--because that's the tense that most books use--and the return to present was quite jarring as a result.
- I had a hard time keeping the characters straight in the first several chapters, probably because the characterizations are all thrown out together, in a jumble. We don't get to know Ezra first, and then Jordan, and then Christian.
Overall comments Now that I've had a few days to think about this book after finishing it, I have mixed feelings about it. I loved the romance--the slow way in which the characters form friendships first and then feelings of love. But it's the sort of story that relies heavily on telling rather than showing this happened, then this, then this...for this reason, and this, and this. Overall, though, I think my affection for the characters outweighs my frustration with the denseness of the writing.
Review Summary A wonderful friends-to-lovers ménage story with more narration and less dialogue than I prefer.
Review If you enjoy friends-to-lovers stories and don't mind menages, then this is the book for you. I don't have a big thing about menages either way, except that I don't always find them believable as HEA material. The characters in this book shared my concerns, which helped make their ultimate resolution and HEA more believable to me. When one character says people don't live in ménages à trois, another replies that they do and points out, "Hence the existence of the term, really, as opposed to `wild drunken threeway'. Ménage `household'."
And they are a household. Christian and Jordan lived together for years after the death of Jordan's wife, in what Christian described as basically a sexless marriage. If Christian was attracted to his straight friend, well, that was his problem and nothing to bother Jordan about. When Ezra returns, the three of them pick up their friendship as if they'd last seen each other yesterday. And he's at the house so much he practically lives there. So all the way around we see solid friendships.
I liked all of the characters individually and together, in each combination of twosomes and as a threesome. I even learned a new word tessellating (from Dictionary.com to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.). So why didn't I rate this five stars? I had a few issues with it that interfered with my ability to stay in the story.
The majority of the first twenty percent was almost entirely narrative, with very little dialogue. It was well-written and engaging narrative, so I didn't even really notice for the first ten percent or so. But after a while it became noticeable because there was so darn much of it; I really wanted to see the characters interact rather than just be told what happened over the course of years. Around twenty percent they finally started talking to each other, but it seemed like it continued to be a bit heavy on the narration even after that. And I didn't really understand why we needed to have a flashback in the middle, rather than just progressing from early years to later ones.
There was also a point when Christian and Jordan got dogs, and Christian observed that "when he and Jordan both had to work almost to midnight, it didn't have that edge of the tomb when they opened the door on the dark." I noticed something that would never have occurred to me before I got a dog if they're gone til midnight, when do those poor dogs get to go potty or for a walk? I found myself searching for mention of a yard, at least, but found none. And then I forgot about the dogs, as they weren't mentioned again. I'd also have liked a little more explanation about Jordan's sexuality and how he went from apparently straight to in bed with his best (male) friends.
But despite those niggles, I loved this story. When there was finally dialogue, it was wonderful and often made me laugh out loud. It was also frequently quite touching, and I'd think "awwww" as I read. Sometimes the laughter and the "awwww" were simultaneous. I loved the consideration the characters had for each other and the ways they looked out for each other, and teased each other, and overall complemented each other. There were times they were awkward together and I feared it was the setup for a Big Misunderstanding, but each time they actually *gasp* talked to each other and resolved things right away.
And when the three finally end up in bed together? I thought my ereader was going to burst into flames! But their compatibility in the bedroom was clearly an extension of their compatibility and comfort with each other out of it. And that made their HEA both desirable and believable to me. I highly recommend this story to anyone who doesn't mind a bit too much well-written exposition.
Note This review was originally posted at Reviews by Jessewave, where I received the book for free in exchange for an honest review.
This book more than met my expectations. It was so much more than a sex focused menage story. There was strong focus on each individual character and I found myself liking Christian, Ezra and Jordan equally. They are believable friends and the transition to love is well done. The sexual element is really at the end of the book - hot sex based on strong emotion and desire.
When a book holds your interest and instead of fixing dinner you have to read 'just a little bit more', you know you have a winner. TRIAGE did just that for me. Christian, Jordan, and Ezra, three men who formed a strong bond while serving a journalism internship, head off on their individual quests for success. Christian and Jordan become news anchors at the same station while Ezra, an accomplished photographer is off on assignment in the Middle East. Life events bring them together in a well written account of their journey towards each other. This is definitely a page turner and I look forward to reading more from this author.
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