Cruising [Paperback]

G. A. Hauser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2008

Brodie Duncan expected to be taking a week-long Alaskan cruise with his girlfriend. But when she ended their relationship just moments before boarding, he ended up on the ship alone. Determined to make the best of a bad situation, Brodie considers a no-strings-attached fling. What he didn't bargain for was a man as appealing as Julian Richards. Trapped in his own bad relationship with a selfish woman he was starting to resent, the charismatic Julian is shocked by his reaction to tall, dark, and handsome Brodie. Instantly attracted to each other, the men create enough heat on their trip to the Inside Passage to melt the glaciers in the bay. In the end, on a vacation full of surprises, Julian and Brodie discover that not only do they have strong feelings for one another, by Cruising they just might have found their soul mates.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Linden Bay Romance (October 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602021457
• ISBN-13: 978-1602021457
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,476,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

About the Author
Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over sixty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction and is an Honorary Board Member of Gay American Heroes for her support of the foundation. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com
G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.
The G.A. Hauser Collection
Single Titles
Unnecessary Roughness
Hot Rod
Mr. Right
Happy Endings
Down and Dirty
L.A. Masquerade
My Best Friend's Boyfriend
The Diamond Stud
The Hard Way
Games Men Play
Born to Please
Of Wolves and Men
The Order of Wolves
Got Men?
Heart of Steele
All Man
Julian
Black Leather Phoenix
London, Bloody, London
In The Dark and What Should Never Be, Erotic Short
Stories
Mark and Sharon (formally titled A Question of Sex)
A Man's Best Friend
It Takes a Man
The Physician and the Actor
For Love and Money
The Kiss
Naked Dragon
Secrets and Misdemeanors
Capital Games
Giving Up the Ghost
To Have and To Hostage
Love you, Loveday
The Boy Next Door
When Adam Met Jack
Exposure
The Vampire and the Man-eater
Murphy's Hero
Mark Antonious deMontford
Prince of Servitude
Calling Dr Love
The Rape of St. Peter
The Wedding Planner
Going Deep
Double Trouble
Pirates
Miller's Tale
Vampire Nights
Teacher's Pet
In the Shadow of Alexander
The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Band of Thebes

The Action Series
Acting Naughty
Playing Dirty
Getting it in the End
Behaving Badly
Dripping Hot
Packing Heat
Being Screwed
Something Sexy
Going Wild

Men in Motion Series
Mile High
Cruising
Driving Hard
Leather Boys

Heroes Series
Man to Man
Two In Two Out
Top Men



G.A. Hauser
Writing as Amanda Winters
Sister Moonshine
Nothing Like Romance
Silent Reign
Butterfly Suicide
Mutley's Crew

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This was a very HOT read!, September 20, 2008

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Rachell Coe (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cruising (Kindle Edition)

I'm a sucker for an M/M story where the main characters start out straight -- and this did not disappoint! The story was well written, protagonists were likable and the sex was hot and abundant!

The only reason it did not get 5 stars from me was because I thought it was a bit unrealistic how fast they accepted and acted on their homosexual tendencies. But then again, I wasn't reading it for its realism ;)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not at all based in reality, but fun and sweet all the same, July 27, 2009

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Charly T. Anchor (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cruising (Paperback)

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 6/10

PROS:
- Great premise. Who hasn't wished at some point or another that he (or she) might meet a hot guy/girl on a cruise ship, have a mad, passionate fling, and then discover that the person lives just down the street and wants to live happily ever after?
- The first sex scene (until it gets going, anyway...see cons below) is deliciously tentative and sweet. And all of the sex is fairly emotional because the guys fall for each other fast and hard.
- Some sweet, if one-dimensional and entirely fluffy, secondary characters who support Brodie and Julian when their relationship becomes public knowledge.
- Lovely ending. Most of the ducks are in a nice, neat little row, and those that aren't are waddling their way toward the row just swimmingly. It's almost saccharine, in fact, but I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't enjoy the story's conclusion.

CONS:
- The decision to experiment with someone of the same sex occurs quite suddenly, not just for one character, but for both of them. Hauser does provide a few "he had thought about it before" moments to ground us just a LITTLE bit in the realm of reality. But neither of these characters has ever even kissed another man, and within 45 pages, they're acting like seasoned gay sex pros; and within 80 (timewise, this is approximately 24 hours), they're running the gamut of gay sex positions, neither one with a care in the world (or with any pain upon penetration).
- The two main female characters are horrendous. One of them isn't actually present much in the book--she dumps Brodie at the beginning and we simply hear things about her from then on--but the other one is more vengeful and disgusting than almost any other character I've encountered in this genre. And my main complaint isn't even that she's terribly one-dimensional (though she is--evil, evil, and more evil); it's that she shows moments of compassion that make the reader think, "There. She's not SO bad," but then she immediately goes back on them, which makes those human moments seem contrived and out of place.

Overall comments: More than just about any other m/m romance I've read, this one is VERY obviously written by a woman and targeted toward women readers. The men are sweeter and more romantic and more sentimental than any man I've ever met, gay or straight. But the story, as a result, is sweet and romantic and sentimental, so if you like that sort of thing, you should give this a try.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS AUTHOR AND THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING, April 28, 2009

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JUSTIN2108 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cruising (Paperback)

I HAVE READ QUITE A FEW OF G.A. HAUSERS BOOKS ..ALL OF THEM IN MY OPINION HAVE BEEN AMAZING..SHE IS BY FAR MY FAVE AUTHOR AND I HOPE SHE CONTINUES TO WRITE MORE. THIS BOOK WWAS SOOO BEAUTIFUL AND FUNNY AND YES HOTT OF COURSE..ITS EXACTLY WHAT IVE COME TO EXPECT FROM HER WRITING AND HAVE YET TO BE DISAPPOINTED..THIS BOOK WAS ACTUALLY QUITE HUMOROUS AS WELL AS ROMANTIC AND HER CHARACTERS ARE SO DETAILED AND SHE BRINGS A NEW LIFE TO WRITING.. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT..ITS A MUST READ FOR ALL FANS OF EROTIC FICTION AS ARE ALL OF HER BOOKS