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Sorry. That did it. The whole story has just gone too weird altogether for me.

The plot thickens and twists some more. I thought this was all about Miracle's issues and coming to terms with them, but its turned into a major crime scene.

Melanie is just as psycho as Jaemin! Heaven help us. And poor innocent Sterling is caught up in the middle. These two psychos make Miracle seem like a saint.

It's really turning into a twisted tale. Is Jaemin psycho or something? He kills in cold blood, and for what? Really too weird, yet Miracle ends up loving him like he's loved no other. How's that happen?

OMG! Talk about drama! Wow! I have to believe Sterling heard and comes to the rescue, otherwise you've killed the main man and where does that leave your story? It was good, though, and the actions of the characters pretty convincing all round, even the asshole parents. What's with Hunter, though? He's rather pathetic in helping. Is he so tied to these parents? I suppose that is so as they do all for him and Miracle is really just an annoyance. As Lisa once asked, "Why did they ever adopt him?"

So now Miracle has had to tell his story, at a very bad time. Principal wants to help him but I think he might end up making it all a whole lot worse for Miracle. You really have put him in the shit now.

Wow! Lisa asked all my questions. I guess I have to read on to find answers. Thanks for writing.

Yes, I get that. He is so mixed up and so much acting on impulse and his impulse in the heat of the moment was to take Kyler. The neat thing is that Kyler resisted and proved that not all guys are the same. That should have shown Miracle something, just like Sterling's actions prove something different. I think its as Lisa said before, he just seems to reject the real thing and blindly follow the sex thing because he's somehow wired into thinking sex equals love and the other thing isn't really love because if it had been his mother wouldn't have given him away. Poor mixed up Miracle. And now the drugs. That was inevitable and surprising it hadn't happened much earlier.

Lisa says it all. Thank God for Sterling.

Oh my! No comments by the author in reply to Lisa's excellent review summing up the story so far. I agree with all Lisa said. This chapter was a tear jerker. Glad that Miracle manage to tell Miss Carter some of his story - a vital key, which she had picked up on earlier. She will be a friend to him. Hope this goes much further for Miracle's sake. Thanks for writing. You do a great job!

Yes, I somewhat agree with Yettie One about Hunter's reactions/response to what he sees and now knows. He seems too passive in this and is of no help to Miracle by being passive. It's almost as though he could save Miracle but doesn't because of his failure to act. The adoptive parents are practically non-existent in their failure to do anything or show any concern or care. What a tragedy! So Miracle is left to self-destruct. What is perhaps amazing is that Miracle isn't heavily into drugs as a means of escaping. This tells us that there is something very strong in him that somehow keeps him going beyond what is normal for a person. There is a core of steel in him that makes him strong, but he doesn't even realize that at this point. Sex has in a way become his drug though you haven't really made enough of this to convince us that it is so.

As a reader I need to be convinced of the possibility and the credibility of things. Not sure that the Brad thing works somehow. It seems out of place, though I know deep down it probably is credible. Most bullies are bullying the very thing they are most afraid of, yet Brad falls quickly into Miracles arms, literally, without even a whimper of protest. I'm not convinced. Sterling is good and you are good at keeping Miracle true to character throughout. And because you like him you make us like him too and become sympathetic to his troubles and why he is doing what he is doing. I like the intrigue too. I assume that sometime we are going to see what happened with his birth parents and why and how the dream of the perfect paradise ended.

Seems that each chapter is going back into the past. This was a very tender view of Miracle and reflects what we all want - to be loved forever. His vain attempts to find that love in sex are so real to so many and so often end in crushed dreams as the whole illusion escapes one. Tragic and heart-rending. I love the way you write. It is very effective. Am a big fan already. Thanks for writing.

Wow! That hit between the eyes! Sure was an excellent hook! I don't understand Lisa's review at all - but you do, so guess that's all that matters. So here I am starting Book 1 before I pick up Book 2 again. Looks like I'm in for an interesting ride. Looking forward to it greatly. Glad I found this read! Thanks for writing.

Interesting! I guess I must read the first book first to get the background. Miracle sounds a very complex character with lots of past to work through. I loved the way Jaemin appears to guide him, not that I know quite who he was to Miracle (read the first book! I guess). And Andy seems to be an extraordinary special kind of guy who sticks by Miracle without pressure but obviously loves him deeply. I see you post very regularly to have accomplished all the chapters you have in something like a month. I really like that too, so when I get through book 1 and back to this it might even be concluded and I can read it straight through. In case you can't tell, I'm getting hooked and like what I read. Thanks for writing!

A really delightful story with such a good feel about it. Such positive out comes and feel-good situations in more ways than one. I loved it. Amazing inter-relationships that probably wouldn't work in real life but the thought of it was so good and it was such fun to participate in it. Romantic to the core! Thank you for bringing such pleasure to my reading times.

Jarrod is great fun and good for Paul. This seems the start of a good friendship. Hope it develops into something solid and lasting. Paul needs a good friend.

A much shorter chapter but developments growing. He should just keep the money for himself and only give any to his sister that he can without suspicion and if she is in dire need. He is such an honorable young man helping his sister when she should be helping him.

I saw you had completed this so am giving it a go. Nice first chapter setting up several things for future actions and Paul seems a very likable youngster. Definitely want to read on to see what happens in his story.

So the roller coaster takes a few more ups and downs and twists and turns. I think a roller coaster will be a breeze after Corbin's life. You make me want to make up for Pete if he will have me. Pete is such a waster. I really want to give him such a work over for what he's done to Corbin and I'm so glad Corbin has decided its the Big Bad Wolf mode that is going to dictate how he handles this. Good for him. And Mike. Now you make me feel so bad for Mike. He's really such a nice guy even though the frat bros think he's a jerk. I like Mike and he's Corbin's man regardless of how we look at this. He really is. I mean, he's put his life out there for Corbin in a unique way and he deserves better. Though I know you can't change who you fall in love with, but maybe, just maybe second best can somehow become first choice, especially if first choice has fucked up so badly. I wish Corbin could just let it go and move on, but then I guess The English Year would be finished before its hardly begun. Not sure I can hang on for this ride though. It is really getting me badly because you write so well and I get so involved in the story, its like I'm living in it. Thanks for your encouragement over my last comments. That has inspired me to get locked into making comments regularly again. Thanks for writing and sharing. You are really good.

I think this is the first review I have done on this book. I have been avoiding doing so because it is so complicated - Corbin's life, his loves, his intrigues and the whole of the college politics is so foreign to me I am still barely grasping it, so am quite likely to make some huge gaffes in my comments (excuse me if I do since this background is so out of my sphere) - but I have, as usual with your writing, got totally emeshed in the story and caught up in Corbin's character and his amazing life, that I have to comment. You so successfully draw your reader in like a spider catching flies! You have portrayed this complicated character in such a way that one loves him in spite of his meanness and vindictiveness, and one becomes convinced of his genuiness and wants to see him win through even when so many of his scrapes are of his own doing. As a reader one feels a little like one of his classmates - Hutch or Roberto maybe - trying to steer this likable, charming, lively and fun-loving character through his obstacle-race-life. How very frustrating to have to deal not just with one, but two non-gay boyfriends who are clearly gay or at least bi. I must say Lee is somewhat of a breath of fresh air, though he might also be like Mike the Cadet and be the secret lover too. Poor Corbin! I so sympathize with him and it seems so common in the gay dating game. And it is this so frustrating business of being attracted to the ones who are not responding, though in Corbin's case they are responding but just in such confusing ways. What a jumble! So looking forward to see how he resolves this FingerGate issue. Being Corbin I look forward to a really smacking end to this with a beautiful twist that will get him off the hook and somehow give MC everything she wanted but not in the way she wanted. You have to get the prize for devious thinking, Mr Wolf! I love it. It is so intriguing. Keep up the excellent work. I really hope by the time I get caught up with the chapters here that you are spinning them out at a great rate!

Well, I've finally taken the plunge and started The English Year. Been putting it off for a long time as I know I'll get hooked in and won't want to put it down and before I know it I'll be stuck waiting for the next chapter. I really don't enjoy that but like to read through without long stops, so not sure where this will take me. As always though, your writing is good and draws one in. I feel somewhat like Pete though, being English, and a little out of the culture, though Pete is fitting in so well already. I like that he's not a pushover and is challenging Corbin. That can only be good! Corbin needs pulling down a peg or two! He's too full of himself outwardly, though we know he's not really so inwardly.

I really like that you want to get it right and I really like that you are writing from personal heart-felt experience - that's what makes you writing so good and so powerful. I love being caught up in it and experiencing the emotion. So looking forward to Part 3, so really hope this Spring inspires you to complete early and publish.

Wow, it was devastating but so well handled. Gentleman Jim comes to mind. He could have taken Jeff and ridden off into the sunset with him, but he didn't because Mike came through trumps and did all the right things that Jeff wanted. Wow! There would be another story of Jeff and Mike's that could be told in more depth and detail. Might you do that? But we really need some conclusion for Jim as this is an end to his old life and a beginning to a new one in which he must find some happiness in a great and satisfying relationship. Otherwise how can we fulfill all those romantic notions and end on some satisfactory note. Though I must say I am jealous that he had it with Chad (even though it was not meant to last) and could have had it with Jeff. So I want to dream some more. Can't wait for Part 3. It's been a long time coming. Hope it is soon to be here.

I am glad I am reading this last part a second time. It really is so very good in the way that you describe Jim's emotions so deeply. I am glad I didn't review all the chapters on the first read so it gives me opportunity to comment some on this time of reading. Next time I guess the reviews are going to be all taken up!