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For Love and Money

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This is a great sequel to The Physician and The Actor. Where that one ends with a broken heart, this one picks up and lifts the reader with its spirit and strength. Jason finally understands the meaning of love, and now I really like him! Full of fun twists and turns and lots of good hot sex! Buy it!

Jason Phillips is miserable. A year ago he left his lover, Ewan Gallagher, bowing to the pressures of his family in order to come into a significant amount of money. Now, he is married and in possession of a large sum of money, but his life is hell. Jason lives hating his wife and the circumstances that brought them together, while enjoying the money and missing Ewan.

Ewan Gallagher has gone to LA to live his dream to become a famous actor. Now, after a year he is a rising star, but Ewan is starting to see how unglamorous the life of an actor really is and realizing how much he misses Jason.

When Ewan and Jason meet when Ewan is in England for a movie premier, they have a second chance at their relationship; will they be able to make it work? Or will money keep them apart for good?

In this sophomoric tale, For Love and Money, we get to watch Ewan and Jason stumble through a minefield of their own making. All the characters are unashamedly greedy and display the emotional maturity of teenager "drama queens." At times I felt like I was reliving my teen-age years where all tragedies were worthy of heart-felt tears and raging against fate. What stopped this from becoming truly funny, in a farcical way, were the characters taking themselves and their greed so seriously. If you are able to over-look characters with the depth of a rain puddle, you might enjoy this book.

Sabella
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

If you can't fall asleep in the middle of the night, this book is for you. Slow, boring and unrealistic. The English character says, "aye" and "oi" constantly! I didn't like the characters at all.

This book is even hotter than the first one.
The passion between characters feels real n
right. They hot for each other. Reading this
book really gives me joy, I even shed a few
tears. The author, G.A Hauser, is really good
writer. The chemistry between characters seems
real. And she gives a good ending too. Happy
ending of course.

I was enthralled... I begin this book with no much wish, thinking to read some pages and then close up and sleep. Now four hours later I'm sleepy as hell but much more happy.

This book is funny and charming. It starts a little bit slow but grows up soon and conquers you.

Jason and Ethan were lovers. But Jason, a doctor, comes from a wealthy family of the northern England, who doesn't see well to have a gay son. So they blackmailed Jason to marry an unknown woman choose by them if he wants to inherited a great estate. And Jason is human, and not the perfect hero of usual romance, and so he accepts the deal and Ethan leaves, goes in America to follow his dream to be an actor.

One year later, when the book starts, Ethan is a famous actor and Jason is leaving a lie: he no more can stand his life and wants Ethan back, badly. But he is a 37 years old married doctor living in Carlisle, England, and Ethan a 21 years old movie star from Los Angeles, California: it is not so simple for the two find a way to be together.

The two characters are absolutely fantastic: Ethan is a knight in shining armour with a crack in the armour! Handsome, wealthy and spoilt, he can't imagine to live without all his money and comfort, but he is also deeply in love with Ethan, he wants to protect him; nevertheless he wants his quite life in an upperclass neighbourhood, possibly with Ethan by his side: in other words he wants the wife drunken and the barrel full!

Ethan is young and innocent: he is all feeling and not much thinking. He is not dumb, but he lets speak his heart instead of his mind. And he needs someone who drives him on the right path. He is fresh water in the bog.

And then there is the setting: all the classical elements of the movie star romance, scandal, luxury, big houses and five star hotels. And in a postcard world also the villains are nice (don't miss Adam and Jack!).

To finish I have also notice that the author use two very different writing styles when she makes speak the english characters or the american characters. I'm not English or American, so I can't judge if the spoken English is correct and accurate, sure she has allow me to indentify myself with the story and better undestand the diversity between the characters.

I've read most of her books in the last month and have been really pleased with them. The one thing I wish here was for a better wrap up. There are things left hanging that I wish had been answered. She does like certain words - scuffled, shouted and naughty boy. Can get a bit annoying. Maybe she needs a new thesarus.