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BOOK BLURB:
Ethan and Jackson are looking forward to a weekend at their beach cottage, the one place where they don't have to hide their relationship. But a meeting with a colleague sends Jackson running for cover, and Ethan is left with serious doubts about how they can continue to live this double life. A terrible act of violence will change everything, but for the better or worse?

BOOK REVIEW:
In "Easy for You," Cassidy Ryan delivers a great story and two very believable characters under the theme of "Changing Lives" as part of Torquere's Charity Sip Blitz.

Detective Jackson Cole and Assistant District Attorney Ethan Rafferty lead a double life. By day, they are colleagues, working together to keep the streets safe, and off the clock they are lovers and partners. A much-needed weekend get-away has Jack and Ethan on a ferry to their cottage where they plan to relax, eat and make love all weekend long. A chance meeting with a colleague sends Jack into hiding and Ethan questioning whether they can continue to live this way. But fate in the form of a terrible act of violence helps to make this decision for them.

What immediately struck me while reading "Easy for You" was how incredibly well developed the characters of Jack and Ethan are, even though the story is only sixteen pages in length. There is intelligence and efficiency to Ryan's writing, in particular her writing of dialogue, which makes these characters completely accessible to the reader. Jack and Ethan are real men with real lives. The manner in which they act, react and interact, what they say to each other and how they say it, how they touch, how they love is all real. For me this sense of realism was most striking in their lovemaking.

"'I want to suck you.' It was a rough whisper, punctuated with a teasing bite to Ethan's earlobe. 'I want to take you in my mouth and suck you until you can barely stand. I want you to come down my throat, so hard that you forget how to breathe.'"

If I were to describe Cassidy Ryan's writing aesthetic it is that she writes with clean lines; there is no room for frivolous or throwaway words or passages. This allows the opportunity to get to the heart of matters in terms of the overall story and its characters and is an aspect of her writing that truly appeals to me as a reader.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Easy for You" and highly recommend it. I also hope we get more of Jack and Ethan in the future. No doubt I will be reading this new-to-me author again.

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