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10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Midwest Book Review, March 2005 Issue Mar 04, 2005
By Lori L. Lake
"Author of Like Lovers Do, Buyer's Remorse, Snow Moon Rising, The 'Gun' Series, & more"
Brent, a former ballet dancer from New York City, is in town to attend his sister's wedding. Rural Holmstead County is a far cry from the "clubs, coffee houses, book stores, chic little storefronts crammed with modern design" (p.1), but it's where Brent grew up. And it's where he happens upon Nick.
Nick is a handsome, extremely well-built stonemason engaged to marry an Irish immigrant. She seeks citizenship, not love. He's not interested in a relationship anyway. After being badly burned in his last relationships with a man named Alex, Nick "buried his dream of finding an equal. A partner. He became disciplined. Trained his body. Trained his mind. He declared he would never fall in love" (p. 11). He's become practical and rather jaded.
But of course, upon meeting one another, sparks fly-even if Nick is repulsed by Brent at first and won't admit it the attraction. He doesn't see Brent as someone worthy of a relationship and figures him for the "wham-bam-thank-you-man" type. And besides, Nick is getting married!
What follows is a classic romance fraught with perils and pitfalls and the angst and reluctance of a man with a broken heart. Will these two men manage to see beyond the opposites that they present to one another and find love? The tension runs high, the love scenes are hot, and the story is refreshing within this age-old genre. NICK OF TIME is a fun and entertaining read. ~Lori L. Lake, reviewer for The Independent Gay Writer and Midwest Book Review
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Romancing the Stone Mar 25, 2006
By K. Peoples
Brent is a beautiful dancer, articulate, out-going, witty, always with a sharp quip, but the "slutty seeming" exterior hides some steel and fine self-discipline. Home for his sister's wedding, he meets her friend Nick, a stunningly tall, dark, hairy and handsome working stiff (a stone mason). I know, it's right out of so many romance novels copying Bronte's Heathcliff, but it actually works pretty well here. Nick's presence is overwhelming, and he surprises Brent with a sharp and keenly penetrating mind. Unfortunately, Brent's articulateness and willingness to say what he thinks deserts him at a crucial, potentially romantic moment, and Nick's penetrating mind fails him when he needed to understand what Brent needs from him. Maybe a little courage failed the hunk as well. Still, Brent's wonderful family to the rescue. It's worth the read (especially for some fun escape) for the delightful characters (including Brent's family), the strong sexual tension between the two mjor characters (several hot sex scenes), and an ending that almost worked. Four stars instead of five because the ending, especially Brent's excessive anger at Nick once Brent realized what Nick was trying to say and do with him was not fully convincing. Still, I enjoyed the read.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Get light summer read! Mar 30, 2008
By jmore865
Is this a great classical work, NO! Is this a fun and enjoyable read, YES! This book is a great read for the beach or if you want something that is a easy entertaining read.
Brent is in town visiting his family for his sisters wedding. He is a rather slut of a guy from New York City. He falls for the big strong muscle man and learns somethings about himself along the way.
I recommend for your trip to the beach this summer.
5 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Refreshing Jan 24, 2005
By N.L. Gassert
This was a fun read.
I enjoyed the dynamic between passionate, lively Brent and logical, self-contained Nick. It's a love-hate relationship at first sight and kiss. The descriptions of Nick are very physical. He has an intense presence in the story and on the page. A very intimidating person - physically - luckily, Brent wouldn't let that stop him. And the sex was hot.
The book won't keep you away from your chores for very long, because it's an easy, quick read - difficult to put down - and not all that long - unfortunately. The occasional typo is distracting, but the novel still warrants a high rating.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Nick of Time: A Romentics Novel by Scott & Scott Jun 10, 2008
By Elisa
Nick is a thirty something very traditionalist gay man who lost his hopes for an happy future together with a man. After a bad break with his last lover, Nick is convinced that no gay man out there shares his idea on family and home. Nick is a steady and strong man, with a moral bigger than his big body. For work he build dry stone walls, and his work is just like him, old, precise and made to be eternal. To build something steady like his walls, Nick proposes to a single mother of three, a prim and proper woman, a good mother and probably a perfect wife, even if Nick doesn't desire her.
From the country Brent moved on the big city, New York, with great dreams of being a professional dancer, and now, 31 years old, his careers ended before time, and his last relationship as well, he is again at home to join in his sister's wedding celebrations. When he was young and still lived in the country, Brent was a little brat, always enamored of someone, a little imp who flirted with everyone, but he knew that, sooner or later he would meet Mr. Right and he would have the happily ever after like everyone else in the perfect country life picture of his youth. Now, fifteen years later, he is still convinced that, out there, Mr. Right is waiting for him, and when he meets Nick, he is so sure that he is the one. But Nick is in a denying phase and he is still hurting from the betrayal of his last boyfriend, a man too similar to Brent to not awake in him painful memories. And then Nick is a man of honor, and he can't be unfaithful to his fiancee and above all to her kids.
This is not the first book by Scott & Scott I read, but I'm a little surprise by this one. I don't know, it has a more romantic style; yes, it's true, also the other books were romance, but they were also "erotic" romance, and the sex was a great part of the book. This one instead is more centered in the feelings, in the game of push and pull between Nick and Brent, that you almost arrive to the end of the story without realizing that they have never done nothing more than kiss. In all the book there is only a "complete" sex scene (since a second one is an interrupted one) and a lot of teasing, a few kisses and a bit of petting. The teasing above all is the main event, since Brent is a mix between a brat and a slut, liking himself (a bit of Narcissus also) and his body, and liking to parade himself in front of Nick, to prove to the man that he is losing something marrying a woman.
Nick is a nice character, but, well, he has emotional handicaps. I think his mistrust in men is not only a consequence of his past bad relationships, but also of his general attitude toward life: he is a loner, he likes his works because it allows him to be alone, and he also likes to go hiking as hobbies, since it's something he can do alone. So it's real the other men that betrayed him, or it's him that didn't allow to no one to come near? His past relationships ended with all the guilty from only one side of the couple?
I think these two men didn't find Mr. Right before because they were not ready for him. And now that they are ready, they need to make some compromises, as I always say, the life is not right or wrong...
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