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Seems like a blanking out of the present in the remembrance of this intense moment or moments. It's very hot! Enough to blank out all the unpleasant reminders of the present.

Hey, I like Jim. He is so sensible in the end, and I like the way he laughs at himself too. He thinks he's old next to Chad (which is true) but 48 is not old! Wait until he hits 60 or 70. Then he knows he's old! This was a nice positive chapter as he has made a decision to go on and that is good. Well done, Jim! Chad you suck! You did not even have the decency to tell Jim what was happening to you, you coward! Sarah is welcome to have you! Good luck to her because this is now Chad's third relationship in just about as many years. He won't be faithful here either, so Sarah is in for a ride, no doubt. I wonder if she has the wherewithal to satisfy his sex drive. I doubt it.

Wow! Well, if this was the fight then Jim did no wrong. Sorry he didn't deliver the knee bit and do it right well and hard! I am so angry with that dick Chad! What a prick! If he was on to Sarah all this time what's with him that he can't come straight with Jim. He's such a pussy! Jim's better off without him if this is how he behaves. My goodness, Jim is an amazingly patient guy to put up with Chad's crap for so long. Hey, Jim, time to move along and really forget Chad altogether!

Wow! This is tough! This is tearful! This is wrenching! So much emotion again, and so much of sympathy for Jim too, so much identity with his feelings. I love your descriptions of the places too. Very good. They somehow complement the emotional side. I love the way you write. Definitely a fan. Thanks.

These are shorter, perhaps in some ways more intense chapters than the first book. They seem to end almost before one has really got into them. But still a good read. Thank you!

Ah, so sad after the upbeat ending to the first book. Why? Why? What's gone wrong?

I don't see much happening in these reviews so not sure this is the place I am supposed to make comments. Is there somewhere else I should be doing this? Thanks for the opening remarks. You do make it quite clear where you are headed and what we can expect. I like that. I like your refreshing honesty too about where you at in all of this. I have to say it's good because of your personal involvement. The story is you in so many ways and it's good because of that. So thanks for sharing and thanks for writing. I like it all, both the parts marked s and the parts not marked s. Keep it rolling!

Thanks for a great story. It was a bit of a happily ever after and lost some of the earlier impact of the story. But maybe it is prepping us for the next part. Altogether it was a great read. Thank you.

Wow! That was a powerful chapter and took me on a roller coaster for sure. I was an emotional old fart too! Jim, you lucky son of a gun! Wish I had Chad! You certainly got me caught up in the story as you can see, Mr Wood! Great stuff. I'm really loving it and so glad that I did read on. What's with the next chapter? A happily ever after? Or are you taking us on another roller coaster? Well, I'll just have to find out, won't I. Thanks again for a great job.

So good again. I couldn't put it down. Caught up in all of it and you have captured it so beautifully. Thanks for such a pleasurable, exciting, read. Can't wait for the next chapter and might just go on with the story until this first part is through.

Good as ever. Thanks for the really sexy read and the interesting development of this relationship. I love their interaction.

For me, this is an education and I appreciate the details that you are going in to. It is helping me to understand better, and I hope be better prepared for next time I have the opportunity for sex with a guy. I found that with the previous chapter as well. The story and the emotions are an added bonus, and as I said before, I like your style and I like the way you write. It is good. Thanks for a great job.

Wow! That was absolutely great. Perfect in my book. I like your style, your control, your expression and the build up in the story. I think I also need a good sleep after that, but its mid-morning and I need to do things, but I'll be thinking about Chad and Jim all day.

I battled with this story the whole way - it was a love-hate thing. I didn't like it but you kept me interested and I wanted to see what happened next. So you sure did I good job of holding the reader. The ending was brilliant because it leaves open so many possibilities and doesn't answer a pack of questions one has. I like that. It's kind of unsatisfying but also satisfying at the same time because it allows one to go on mulling over the characters and the events. Very clever. I want to read some more of your writing and I have recommended a friend who is starting to write to have a look at your work. Thanks.

Really good. It was much better than The List. You really took it a long way above and I got very involved with the characters so the sex took second place. Fantastic job. I will be looking for more. Must find that one on the English Year. Thanks for a good read!

I'm crying! You have done an amazing work here, and you have wrung my emotions this way and that! I am a basket case. Ah, Coop! What's to be done? Leave them both and come with me. I'll make it better for you, somehow I want you just to be happy, man! This is too much of a mix up for your safety, my friend!

Sure is a relationship roller-coaster. My sympathies are totally with Coop. I want to hold him and cuddle him and make it better for him. I understand all his outbursts and he did try to keep himself under control, but in the face of what Devon did who can blame him. She is the bitch of bitches. I don't even want to call her Devon - it's too nice a name for her! And to think this is only the beginning for Coop. I might be taking to drink myself here to see this through. You do such a good job to elicit such responses, mine included. Really enjoying this ride. Thanks for a great read. I am having to discipline myself to put it down otherwise everything's going to go out the window and there's other stuff needs doing. Great job!

Thanks again. I so enjoy reading these reviews too. Louis is really coaching you in an awesome way and his comments were an education. Enjoying the developments. Great story. Great characterization. Great interaction. You make it all believable and carry the reader with you.

I like that Coop has the courage to throw it all up for the 10 thing; so much better to go for it and lose than just be content to bump along at a 7. And really that was Devon seeing it as a 7. I think for Coop it was more like a 3 or a 4 at the best! Seize the moment. I like that he is immediately taken back to the time when he was happiest - 20 years back when he was with Chase. Great that their love has stayed the same in spite of the years. Though perhaps a little hard to swallow that one. Is it really realistic? What is realistic is this rather dull marriage that has degenerated into what it probably always was, a kind of cool friendship one notch up from platonic really and often quite typical of a marriage between a gay guy and a straight girl. It was not a hot place for Devon either and she's known all along what Coop's real love is so is it really any surprise to her to be faced with this. I think its quite realistic that they can joke about taking each other to the cleaners, probably knowing that neither of them really wants or needs to do that. Thanks for a good read and great to be back in hot seat of this thing between Chase and Coop. It's really something we all wish we had!

I must say I was so disappointed with the opening paragraphs and nearly switched off the whole thing, but I came back later and ploughed through the rest of the prologue understanding that you were setting up this dreadful picture of middle-aged muddle that was so absolutely the last gasp. You did that very well because that was why I was so disappointed in it. And seeing all the old buddies still hanging out, and maybe in the same dull boat too. How awful. Too much like the real deal. Except where the hell was Chase? The iconic lover somehow not in the picture. What the hell happened? And then the call. You sure set me up for chapter 2. Damn that I have to go and can't read it now. Well done!