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    Life After Joe

    By Harper Fox

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    About this ebook

    It's not the breaking up that kills you, it's the aftermath.

    Ever since his longtime lover decided he'd seen the "heterosexual light," Matt's life has been in a nosedive. Six months of too many missed shifts at the hospital, too much booze, too many men. Matt knows he's on the verge of losing everything, but he's finding it hard to care.

    Then Matt meets Aaron. He's gorgeous, intelligent and apparently not interested in being picked up. Still, even after seeing Matt at his worst, he doesn't turn away. Aaron's kindness and respect have Matt almost believing he's worth itand that there could be life after Joe. But his newfound happiness is threatened when Matt begins to suspect Aaron is hiding something, or someone...

    35,000 words

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarina Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426890369
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    Harper Fox

    Harper Fox is the author of many critically acclaimed M/M Romance novels, including Stonewall Book Award-nominated Scrap Metal and Brothers Of The Wild North Sea, Publishers Weekly Best Book 2013. Her novels and novellas are powerfully sensual, with a dynamic of strongly developed characters finding love and a forever future – after an appropriate degree of turmoil. She loves to show the romance implicit in everyday life, and she writes a sharp action scene too.

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    • 4/5
      When I am reading a Harper Fox book, she is sitting next to me. She punches through my chest, pulls out my heart, and squeezes it as I read.This book anatomizes Matthew's emotional journey when his long-time partner Joe leaves him suddenly for a woman. We follow Matt on his heart-tearing journey down to the lowest lows. He meets a fellow broken man and the two cobble together a relationship while trying to understand what each other has endured.There is a twist toward the end that made me scream at my Kindle screen, "no he didn't!!" and my heart starts galloping in Fox's fist.She puts in back in its place at the end so that I am ready to read her next book. Any book that would worry your cardiologist is worth the read.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! It was a great read. A love story with one MC, Matt, in a bad place after his break-up with his long term lover Joe (who decided to go straight), he struggles and grieves and finally comes to terms. He kind of stumbles into the relationship with Adam - and by the way conquering his understandable trust issues. And this story is told very enjoyably and feels realistic.
    • 4/5
      Set in contemporary England, Matthew is trying hard to get over his ex -Joe - who left him to be with a woman (horrors!) (after carrying on an affair with her for like 2 years - the slut) and is on a path of self destruction - drinking, taking pills, flunking out of medical school and having reckless (and sometimes public) sex with any bloke around. He finally hits rock bottom and this is witnessed by Aaron - a sexy oil rig worker. Suffice to say that they get together and Aaron helps Matthew make the climb back to happiness. Aaron has demons of his own though and Matthew is left wondering who "Rosie" is and whether Aaron will do to him what Joe did. Joe, the scumbag makes an appearance at the end of the book trying to again have his cake and eat it too and I was soooo grateful that Matthew didn't let himself get sucked in again. This story is told from Matt's POV which makes the confusion about who Rosie is totally understandable. The answer was unexpected (at least to me) but made total sense. I liked Aaron a lot and I liked Matthew too and I really felt for these characters - the author's use of words put me right there. I "got" the dark place that Matthew was in at the beginning (anyone who's been through a bad breakup probably would I guess) and I liked the poignancy of this sweet story. I'm looking forward to more from this author. If I had a complaint, it would be that the book finished a bit quickly - I'd have liked a little more. (Plus, I didn't quite buy that Matthew would have made it onto the rig - too much security, but I went with it for the sake of the story.) B
    • 5/5
      First Driftwood, now Life After Joe, Harper Fox can write! Beautiful word choice creating sinuous sentences. I love her! Then I wailed to discover that she has only written 2 books and I've read them both. I can only hope she writes fast!Matt is falling about after Joe leaves him, becoming more and more self destructive on the club scene (I loved all the musice references and now want to download Riverside Motherfucker) Then he meets the enigmatic Aaron and starts to think that there indeed might be, life, after Joe. Moving and hot, romantic and sensual, and just loving... A definite keeper and a reread
    • 5/5
      A beautifully-told story. Having grown into his first relationship with his childhood friend Joe, Matt is absolutely gobsmacked when Joe leaves him .... to start a new life with a woman. Matt is absolutely raw with pain - too many men, too much booze - until he meets kind, courtly, devastatingly gorgeous Aaron one night at a bar. Each man has secrets and heartbreak, and needs healing.

      I am in awe of Harper Fox's writing. Absolutely every word and phrase has been crafted into something extraordinary.
    • 5/5
      A breathtakingly beautiful story. Brutal and lyrical at once, I defy you to emerge from this with a dry eye.
    • 3/5
      Harper Fox has a lovely style. Her books, for me, hit or miss on basic points- plots, characters, etc. This was almost a hit for me, but skipping forward in the end and a too abrupt finish left the relationship feeling casual in my head no matter how the words insisted it wasn't.
    • 4/5
      Life After Joe was a lovely angst infested read about breaking up and moving on and dealing with grief. I really liked this book, even though I thought Matt at times needed a boot in the arse and a bit of a hurry up. The beginning of the book felt a little choppy at times with Matt’s overwhelming sadness at the end of his relationship. But it did make me think lots about how we deal with grief and even though I’m much more of a ‘sort your bloody self out’ kind of girl, I did appreciate Matt’s reluctance to move on. Relationships are hard and trust is something that is earned. I enjoyed the authors knowledge of oil rigs and helicopters, very vivd stuff and I felt nerdishly intrigued by this setting. The sex was passionate, real and romantic and I can honestly say I’m looking forward to the authors next book which is out in August.