New 5 Star Review on Amazon for "The Wolfe Proxy"
Just when I think I might have Amazon figured out - they go and mess with me. I'm beginning to think it's personal. Like alex_beecroft I can never seem to get my stuff in the right categories. "The Wolfe Proxy" for example has no categories at all. It's just listed as "Books." That means any ranking it has is up against everything in Amazon - all 26,319,723 of them. So I was amazed when my little paperback hit 19,000 something. Do the math and figure out the percentage there. So a gay romance is doing pretty decent there. And I'd love to see where it is against regular contemporary romances but with no categories, it's not really possible. So annoyed with Amazon but not surprised.
Then they go an mess with me... I got a new review today, a good one! 5 Stars. Intelligent, articulate, gets where Terry and I were coming from. So coolness. Then I see this little badge "Vine (tm) Voice." Okay, what the hairy heck is this? Google time. Seems Amazon started a new program at the end of last year where they invited some of their top reviewers to join this "Vine Voice." The reviewers get sent free books in exchange for honest reviews. It's to help create buzz for new stuff, apparently. Okay... my reviewer is a Vine Voice. Neat!
Any way: here's the review from Amos Lassen.
Max is an open gay struggling artist. He is into one-nighters and basically lives by his own rules--at least until his sister Jenn comes to live with him. When he meets his sister's boss, Quinton, Max sees him as the kind of guy he would love to be with but like himself, Quint is popular (with the women) and not thinking about settling down. Max loves his sister and will not let Quint use her as just another woman. He arranges a meeting and lets Quint know that. However, Quint realizes when he sees Max that he prefers him to his sister and he tells Max that he will stay away from Jenn if Max will become his private boy toy. He had no idea that Max would agree to such an arrangement and when Max agrees, we get to the meat of the story. Quint had always been the one to call the shots. He soon realizes that his private life is about to change--he had always had a different public persona and his private life was just that--private. Quint lets himself go with Max and Max understands that Quint really needs love and affection. Both men have hidden themselves from the world--Quint as the cold business man and Max as the happy go lucky man about town.
We soon see that both men have deep emotions but when they are with someone that they feel they can trust, they are different people. They show their true feelings. The book is a real romance. Both men truly feel for each other and as their love for each other grows, they emerge as characters for whom love is the most important thing in their lives.
The authors do a wonderful job in showing the evolutions of Max and Quint. This is a quick and truly enjoyable read.
Then they go an mess with me... I got a new review today, a good one! 5 Stars. Intelligent, articulate, gets where Terry and I were coming from. So coolness. Then I see this little badge "Vine (tm) Voice." Okay, what the hairy heck is this? Google time. Seems Amazon started a new program at the end of last year where they invited some of their top reviewers to join this "Vine Voice." The reviewers get sent free books in exchange for honest reviews. It's to help create buzz for new stuff, apparently. Okay... my reviewer is a Vine Voice. Neat!
Any way: here's the review from Amos Lassen.
Max is an open gay struggling artist. He is into one-nighters and basically lives by his own rules--at least until his sister Jenn comes to live with him. When he meets his sister's boss, Quinton, Max sees him as the kind of guy he would love to be with but like himself, Quint is popular (with the women) and not thinking about settling down. Max loves his sister and will not let Quint use her as just another woman. He arranges a meeting and lets Quint know that. However, Quint realizes when he sees Max that he prefers him to his sister and he tells Max that he will stay away from Jenn if Max will become his private boy toy. He had no idea that Max would agree to such an arrangement and when Max agrees, we get to the meat of the story. Quint had always been the one to call the shots. He soon realizes that his private life is about to change--he had always had a different public persona and his private life was just that--private. Quint lets himself go with Max and Max understands that Quint really needs love and affection. Both men have hidden themselves from the world--Quint as the cold business man and Max as the happy go lucky man about town.
We soon see that both men have deep emotions but when they are with someone that they feel they can trust, they are different people. They show their true feelings. The book is a real romance. Both men truly feel for each other and as their love for each other grows, they emerge as characters for whom love is the most important thing in their lives.
The authors do a wonderful job in showing the evolutions of Max and Quint. This is a quick and truly enjoyable read.