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Chasing Smoke

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-28
Summary: "Going Home"

Mitchell, K. A. "Chasing Smoke", Samhain Publishing, 2010.

Going Home

Amos Lassen


Daniel Gardner does not like visiting his family--in fact, he hates it. However his boyfriend has been pressuring him for a serious relationship and suddenly going home sounds quite good. Going home also means seeing Trey Eriksson who was taken in by Daniel's family after Trey's father went to jail for murdering Trey's mother. Trey believed his father to be innocent and now new clues were turning up. Daniel remembers that Trey used to come to Daniel's room at night and now fifteen years later, trey has finally come to terms with his sexuality. You can almost see what is coming here--we have a coming home story, a murder mystery and a tale of first love rekindled.
The book moves quite slowly at first but it is clear why Mitchell did that. We are to feel the intensity of the romance between Daniel and Trey and we indeed do so. Mitchell has paced the story beautifully and it holds you.
Daniel and Trey were friends when they were in their teens. Daniel envied Trey a bit but he also had desire for Trey--Trey was good looking and popular while Daniel was the class geek. They did have a secret sexual relationship but Trey remained closeted. He wanted to be the guy that everyone thought that he was. The boys had to break up with the murder of Trey's mother because when they lived in the same house both were afraid to make a move. Trey went into the army and Daniel felt betrayed and left his hometown for the city.
Now Daniel is a homeland security agent and quite a man-about-town. He is openly gay and is involved in a NSA sexual relationship but he does not want a relationship like the one he is. He still pines for Trey who was like the apple in the Garden of Eden.--forbidden fruit.
The two men have been haunted by the murder of Trey's mother. Neither guy ever forgot the pain afterwards and there were many unanswered questions.
This is quite a story and the ending is not hard to predict. Mitchell takes us through the steps the men took to rebuild their love and I found the entire book to be quite moving.... And the sex scenes are quite hot.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-08
Summary: "Fascinating book"

I am so glad that I gave this book a chance. I hated another book by this author (Diving deep) and would not even think to come back to read another one if my friend would not have convinced me to do so. Wow, what a difference. Instead of the characters having no depth, we have the characters who are as three dimensional and realistic as they come. Instead of book having minimal, or under my criteria basically non existent plot, we have a sophisticated murder/conspiracy mystery AND romance AND some very hot sex scenes. And every one of these sex scenes is important to the story and moves the plot forward. I loved it a lot and highly recommend it.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-01-22
Summary: "Chasing Smoke"

It is no secret I am a bit of a fan girl for K.A. Mitchell and this new book was a gem.

The novel had a great hook with a return home, first love and a tightly scripted mystery that in no way detracted from the central theme of two men falling in love again. The novel has a slow, sexy burn to it and the tension between Daniel and Trey made my toes curl. The flashes back to when they're younger feels a little illicit as you read about their burgeoning love, but it's sensual and beautifully written and makes their interactions as adults that much more bittersweet and sexy. And hot, holy moly. O-o

I think what I enjoy most about K.A. Mitchells writing is that she understands the rhythm of a good book. Her pacing is excellent and there are no lulls where I feel inclined to ferret off to check my twitter account, or other assorted internet wankyness. I'm reading till some ridiculous hour and am still desperate to know what happens next, despite my tiredness. This is what a good book should be all about. That and making me laugh out loud at lines like ...Ghosts of Erections Past... Imagery? hehe. Loved it!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-07-15
Summary: "Chasing Smoke by K.A. Mitchell"

Chasing Smoke is about how you never forget your first love and about a little spoiled teenager.

Daniel and Trey were friends as teenager. They were not exactly best friends, their parents were and the kids went along when the parents did. Daniel was the son of a wealthy doctor, living in the best neighborhood of the town; Trey was the son of a police officer, with an comfortable house in an average neighborhood. But it was Daniel who envied Trey; he envied his house, his parents, his life, and desiring all of that, he desires also the boy. Daniel was young and skinny, a bit of a nerd, where Trey was the next door good boy, with a cheerleaders as a girlfriend... even more than one. It's obvious than in a situation like that, when both Daniel than Trey realized that they preferred men on women, they started a secret relationship; Daniel, with all the certainty given by money and youth, was careless and full of hope in the future, and instead Trey was still in the closet, trying to be the perfect good boy that everyone thought he was.

I don't know if the relationship would have lasted, I have the feeling that Daniel was too immature, and Trey too scared. But a tragic fate gave a sudden break: Trey's mother was killed and Trey's father was framed; he went in prison while Trey was welcomed inside Daniel's home as a second son. But Daniel was not able to see Trey as a brother, and Trey was too scared to let his feeling transpire; as soon as it was possible, Trey enrolled in the Army. Daniel saw it as a betrayal, an abandonment, and also him took the first chance he had to let the city.

Years later, Daniel is an agent for Homeland Security, and he is also a playboy on the side. He has openly gay sexual relationship, also long-term relationship, but always without strings attached: as soon as one of his boyfriends try to tight the knot, Daniel runs away. I believe he still has the feeling that his story with Trey is not ended; as I said, if it was given the time to the boys to grew on their relationship, probably they would have realized it was only a teenager crush on the only other gay boy around, but like that, Trey's dreaming image became the forbidden fruit for Daniel, something he couldn't have despite all his money. Any man after him was only a means to forget Trey and didn't work. Now that Daniel is coming back home for Christmas, and Trey is there, working as a police officer in the same department as his father, even if Daniel is feigning indifference, I think he is on the prowl to capture that dream of long ago.

I like Daniel, but I said, I think he is a little spoiled. He always does what he wants, and he is very demanding, in and out the bedroom. Even when he is the submissive partner, I always have the idea that he is the one in command. On the other hand Trey is a more gentle character; it's true, he had not the courage to come out years ago, but I believe it was in his character. Trey is a man that has to ponder every move, to weight the pros and cons, but if you give him time, he always arrives to the right decision. Even years ago, if Daniel had the patience to wait for him, he would have taken the right decision.

The story is pretty sexy, there are a lot of erotic sex scene, where, as I said, Daniel is always in command, even when he is the bottom. He is demanding and eager, while Trey is caring and gentle... it's really interesting how the author was able to mingle so well the characters in and out the bedroom, maintaining their characteristics in both place.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-07-08
Summary: "Well written but cold"

I'm a huge K A Mitchell fan and when I heard she had a new novel out, I leapt on it. After Collision Course, I was sure I had a treat coming.

Unfortunately, this one just didn't work for me. On the good side, Mitchell's writing, particularly of sex and emotion, is now as fine as it gets. She's hit her stride and she's nothing to learn on that side of things, which is why I've rated this as highly as I have.

On the bad side, this story is full of inadequately flagged flashbacks which really make it hard to keep track of where you are, and what's happening - Samhain don't like to format flashbacks differently as I found with my own writing, so this isn't necessary Mitchell's fault, but it made a confusing plot even more difficult to follow. And since the plot pretty much left me cold anyway, that didn't help at all. It's a conspiracy mystery, and while the actions of previous American administrations make just about anything plausible, when you think you can have a president rumoured to be a drug addict, and a vice-president who can shoot someone in the face and not even be charged, the premise of this particular story, which drives all the events in it, is a tad strained. I'm happy to suspend disbelief with the best of them, but only if I'm distracted by the pretty.

Sadly, I didn't like the lead characters - or any of the characters, actually - which surprised me, because Mitchell usually creates vivid and likable characters which would go a long way to cover any defect of style. Not here. I'm all for emotionally constipated characters being forced to face their inner feelings, but Daniel and Trey are too far gone, lost in their own frozen, narrow world views, the product of dysfunctional childhoods, and adulthoods spent in missed opportunities and barren pastimes. I believed they carried their teenage passion all this time simply because neither of them is emotionally mature enough to have moved passed their childish desires, but I couldn't believe that either of them had the resources to grow up or bring out the best in the other one. Physically perfect specimens, but stunted as people.

A cold distance overlays the minor characters in this, befitting the winter setting, but not making for an enjoyable read, at least not for me. Daniel's parents are unable to love him as he is, or even at all, Daniel's brother is estranged, and Daniel's present partner can't reach his cold and ungenerous boyfriend. Mitchell chucks Ginny into the mix - a lesbian schoolfriend who supposedly taps into Daniel's sensitive side and gives him a righteous kick in the arse - but because of Daniel's lack of warmth and depth, and because he doesn't care enough about Ginny to actually keep in contact with her, the relationship feels false to me, claiming too great an intimacy on too little knowledge.

I'm probably being too hard on this book. It's like waking up to a snowy cold morning, after flying in from the Caribean, reading this book after the sunny and funny 'Collision Course'. Chasing Smoke is wintry, humourless, angsty and angry, and some people will love that. It's not that it's a bad book at all. I'm talking purely about my emotional response, which is an individual thing. Mitchell nonetheless delivers a story with real meat on its bones, and real men, even if they're not particularly winning. Not a reread for me, but far from poor value.