Review: Sound of Us by A. M. Arthur

22 April of 2017 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

These three love each other so much!

Sound of Us By A. M. Arthur

Genre: GLBTQ, MM, Menage, Contemporary Romance

Released: April 21, 2017

Publisher: Briggs-King Books

Series: Us, Book 2

Synopsis

Jake Bowden didn’t expect to be settling into a strong, loving relationship with another guy at only twenty-three years old—never mind with two. His chemistry with Cris is as strong as ever, while things with Charles are more like a simmer than a heavy boil. Charles says he’s perfectly content to go at Jake’s pace, but Jake isn’t sure slow is what he wants anymore. And when Jake wants something, he isn’t shy about going after it.

Cris Sable is head-over-heels in love with the two men in his life, and he’s vowed to do everything he can to protect the fragile, three-way relationship they’re cultivating—even if it means lying about his past. A dark past that resurfaces in an unexpected way and forces Cris to make the difficult choice between shielding Jake and Charles from it, or trusting them enough to help him face it head-on.

Charles Greenwood had forgotten what it felt like to be loved, until a feisty go-go boy and an ex-porn star fell into his bed, and then stole his heart away. He loves both men equally, but differently, slowly stoking the fire of the chemistry he shares with Jake, while passionately pursuing Cris—both in and out of bed. Their lives are entwining in the very best way…until Cris starts to pull away, distancing himself from the loving support of their triad. And after Cris disappears one night on a drunken bender, Charles vows to do whatever it takes to prove to Cris that he can trust them with anything—mind, body and spirit.

Three separate hearts will finally beat as one.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

These three love each other so much!

Sound of Us is book 2 in A. M. Arthur’s new series called Us. While you probably could read book 2 without reading book 1 first I strongly recommend that you start with book 1. First off, it’s a great book and second, book 1 gives you a lot of the background information about Cris, Chet (Charles) and Jake.Here for Us ended with a HFN (happy for now) but Sound of Us digs deeper into the relationship between the three MCs (main characters).

Cris has been keeping a secret from his two boyfriends. He doesn’t want to face anything to do with his past and he has never seemed to find the right time to tell them what they deserve to know about it.

Jake has to come to terms with his illness; he needs to know he can handle life without the constant support of Chet and Cris.

Chet (Charles) does what he always seems to do best and that is be totally supportive of his boyfriends in whatever way they need at the time.

Sound of Us should have come with a warning – something like “caution, contents may cause your ereader to spontaneously combust.” The sexy time in this book is beyond scorching and it’s pretty plentiful. I love how Ms. Arthur seems to give these guys exactly what they need, exactly when they need it.

Parts of this story made me smile and parts of it made my heart ache for what the characters had to go through to finally find their HEA. The dialogue is witty and the writing flowed very well. This is a book that I didn’t want to put down once I started but real life intruded and forced me to take much longer to read than is normal for me. This was frustrating and at the same time the story was so good I really didn’t want it to end anyway so stretching things out was also kind of a good torture.

I know Ms. Arthur has more books planned for this series. She introduced some interesting secondary characters that I’m hoping will get stories of their own soon.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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About Author

A. M. Arthur

A.M. Arthur was born and raised in the same kind of small town that she likes to write about, a stone’s throw from both beach resorts and generational farmland. She’s been creating stories in her head since she was a child and scribbling them down nearly as long, in a losing battle to make the fictional voices stop. She credits an early fascination with male friendships (bromance hadn’t been coined yet back then) and “The Young Riders” with her later discovery of and subsequent love affair with m/m romance stories.

An avid reader of het romance, her first foray into reading published m/m romance (slash fanfic doesn’t count) is thanks to a Dear Author review of K.A. Mitchell’s CHASING SMOKE. After devouring K.A.’s existing backlist, she dove headfirst into other authors. While she prefers contemporary, she’ll occasionally sample an historical or SFF m/m romance.

A.M. wrote her first m/m stories in the guise of Kish fanfic (the Kyle/Fish romance from cancelled soap opera “One Life to Live.” As her stories were met with more and more positive feedback, A.M. was inspired to try her hand at creating original m/m romance. And the rest is history.

When not exorcising the voices in her head, she toils away in a retail job that tests her patience and gives her lots of story fodder. She can also be found in her kitchen, pretending she’s an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments.

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