Falling for Him by C.L. Mustafic Published by NineStar Press on April 17th 2017
Genres: mm romance
Pages: 367
Format: Kindle
Source: Goodreads
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Doctor Gavin Addison’s marriage didn’t end on the friendliest of terms, and his estranged wife’s continual harassment has the local police visiting his home so often they’ve started calling him “the doc.” One of those cops, Officer Lex Turner, has a crush on the handsome doc, even though he knows there’s no chance the doc would ever consider dating a man.
A chance encounter on a crowded dance floor ends with both men in the same bed with the same woman—but with questionable results. When the doc wants to try that again, Lex becomes more involved than he’d dreamed possible as he helps his new friend navigate the kinkier side of sex. Knowing it’s just sex for Gavin, Lex finds it hard to keep his feelings hidden. But when Gavin finally figures out he has feelings for Lex that go beyond what a guy should feel for his buddy, will he let Lex convince him to take a chance with him—even if it turns both their lives upside down?
*Falling for Him (ARC) was graciously provided to me by IndiGo for an honest review.*
“Doctor’s Prescription..Take a Deep Breath and Follow Where Your Heart Guides You”
Falling for Him, by CL Mustafic, is an amazing story. It’s a story filled with incredibly powerful emotions that take both of its main characters through a deep and soul-searching journey of reflection to ultimately come to a decision that will affect them forever.
Gavin Addison is a kind, sensitive, straight-laced, well-liked, good-looking, dimpled physician with a huge heart that makes me just want to give him such a big and squishy hug. Gavin is going through a severely difficult time in his life, and, because of this, is slowly crumbling as the days progress. Through a series of related events, he befriends Lex Turner, who enables him to open his eyes to something that has been buried so far down deep in Gavin’s psyche, that it takes him quite a while to discover and understand just how important that initial meeting of Lex really was.
Lex Turner is a kind, slightly insecure, strong, determined, caring, and good-looking police officer who is secretly attracted to Gavin, and wishes to protect him from the darkness which is trying to drag him down inch by inch through no fault of his own.
Wow…..what an incredible story! This was my first book from this author, and, I went into it practically blind. I saw the beautiful cover, and with very little information from the blurb, I went in, and, jiminy cricket..am I glad that I did! It’s theme is powerful.. And I mean POWERFUL. It’s real. It’s necessary. It is one that elicits immense and ever-changing waves of compassion, happiness, pride, laughter, joy, love, sadness, and a whole lot of heat.
Love. Love is a mighty and multi-faceted entity. It’s seemingly warm, tender, and comforting arms very often will draw you in and provide a much-needed comfort necessary for survival, during the infrequent times when someone else turns that love into something dark and malicious by going down a relentless and dingy road filled with destruction. It was during one of these times that the recipient of such darkness gravitated towards a much needed source of light. And that was Gavin on his needed for Lex. Gavin craved and soaked in all of the love which radiated from Lex. There were many such times when I just sat with my mouth agape with shivers running up and down my spine due to the magnitude of everything that Lex and Gavin were going through. I felt it. Ultimately, boy, did I feel it.
While I feel that the overall structure of the story was fine, albeit the existence of a couple of somewhat confusing parts, I feel that there were times where I had wished that the reader would have been able to read what had happened, instead of such scenes occurring behind-the-scenes. I enjoyed the secondary characters, some more than others, and cherished their strong friend and family values.
I also believe that words are so important when trying to draw the reader into a story, so, for this reason, I really want to feel what the characters are feeling. During this story, I feel that there were times that I had wondered as to the true connection between the two men. Sometimes I felt more of this only from only one of them rather than both. However, once I reached a certain part of the story, it was like the gates burst and I was bawling like a baby from the depth of their emotions. I had discovered that once I had truly unearthed who both of these men were, a large and bright and beautiful picture filled with birds chirping while the sun rose over the horizon had shown itself.
Through admiration, protection, love and incredible strength, Gavin was finally able to develop his own unwavering strength and love to be able to live his life as he would like to live it. He was in control, finally. It was during these times of revelation and strength that I found myself cheering loudly, and will admit to have pulled quite a few strong and mighty Arsenio Hall air fist pumps…for him. For them both. Even though I had sometimes wondered how, despite being two very intelligent individuals, how they could come up with such thoughts and decisions, I had cheered for them both. Boy, did I cheer. And LOUDLY.
I do believe that Gavin summed it up beautifully..
“I found someone attractive, both in personality and physically, and that attraction turned into love. The fact that that person just so happens to be male, is irrelevant in my mind; love is love is love.”
..and this, this is love . Love is this emotion which proves to be such a comforting and empowering thing that enables individuals to flourish and grow into such strong, amazing, and wonderful human beings. I am in so much awe as to the beauty of Gavin Addison and Lex Turner’s souls, and, I’m so glad I read their story, because..it’s a powerful one. 🙂
