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Keeping Promise Rock Tekijä: Amy Lane
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Keeping Promise Rock (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2010; vuoden 2010 painos)

Tekijä: Amy Lane (Tekijä)

Sarjat: Promises (1)

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Keeping Promise Rock: Book One Carrick Francis has spent most of his life jumping into trouble with both feet. The only thing saving him from prison or worse is his absolute devotion to Deacon Winters. Deacon was Crick's sanity and salvation during a miserable, abusive childhood, and Crick would do anything to stay with him forever. So when Deacon's father dies, Crick puts his college plans on hold to help Deacon as Deacon has helped him. Deacon's greatest wish is to see Crick escape his memories and the town they grew up in so Crick can enjoy a shining future. But after two years of growing feelings and temptation, the painfully shy Deacon finally succumbs to Crick's determined advances and admits he sees himself as part of Crick's life. It nearly destroys Deacon when he discovers Crick has been waiting for him to push him away, just like Crick's family did in the past. When Crick's knack for volatile decisions lands him far away from home, Deacon is left, shell-shocked and alone, struggling to reforge his heart in a world where love with Crick is a promise, but by no means a certainty.… (lisätietoja)
Jäsen:brandochic
Teoksen nimi:Keeping Promise Rock
Kirjailijat:Amy Lane (Tekijä)
Info:Dreamspinner Press (2010), 344 pages
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Keeping Promise Rock (tekijä: Amy Lane) (2010)

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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 13) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
This was like a SOLID 5 star read until the majority of the book became '2 years of purgatory for a lifelong child abuse victim who made one mistake.' Like, yes, it was a bad mistake, but it mostly just felt like a really great love story, and then about 70% of punishment and misery.

Also, the characters do not spend the majority of this book with each other, and I think that's significant in a romance. Especially when that time apart is small moments of hope amongst trauma after trauma after trauma after trauma, and people being mad at someone who never got therapy for like, a life of child abuse and decisions rooted in child abuse. Even when Crick is severely injured and maybe going to die, Deacon uses guilt-tripping language instead of language rooted primarily in love re: wanting him to survive. I.e. 'Fighting hard? He goddamned better be.'

So Deacon started out very likeable to me, and just became incredibly unlikeable by the end. Crick started off earnest and desperate for love, and is still earnest and desperate for love at the end, just...with a partner who's been angry at him for two years for a mistake, and who says he's over his anger when he clearly isn't. The first words Deacon says to his severely wounded partner after apparently being 'clean and shiny' and no longer angry? 'Good to see you stopped slacking and finally got your ass home.' Would've liked some genuine apologies from Deacon, after 2 years of war-purgatory for Crick lmao. Thank GOD Deacon got therapy. Never met a character who needed it more, which is saying something. He behaves in untrustworthy, unstable and unloving ways by the end of the book. He is at his most loving in the beginning. We find out that not only is Deacon not a god (which, you know, he never really came across as one), he's not even a very loving, forgiving human being with a capacity to recover from his own trauma. In the end, Crick feels so guilty - STILL - that he says that his mistake to leave for the military when he thought Deacon was going to cut him off, was more painful for Deacon, than Crick's ENTIRE life of childhood abuse, that caused him to think Deacon was going to leave him in the first place. Those are the words of a shamed, guilty, unhappy man who has no sense of perspective. And Deacon just accepts that. Without question.

Anyway, all of this made the ending feel not happy at all, but tentatively hopeful at best. It's beautifully written, but it will make the process for those actually familiar with child abuse and similar all the more painful because of it. This reads like hurt-no-comfort, at least for me. ( )
  PiaRavenari | Aug 4, 2023 |
Mi è stato difficile, in un certo senso, arrivare ad apprezzare questo romanzo. All'inizio mi ha dato l'impressione di essere un insieme di scene di per sé godibili, ma scollegate le une dalle altre. Era come guardare il dettaglio di un mosaico senza poterne individuare il disegno generale. Ho continuato a leggere e dalla metà del romanzo il disegno generale ha iniziato a mostrarsi con tutta la sua forza.

Deacon e Carrick (Crick) sono i due protagonisti, entrambi forti, entrambi fragili. Deacon sarà in grado di mandare avanti il ranch in mezzo ai problemi economici, meteorologici, psicologici e chi più ne ha più ne metta. Eppure la lontananza da Crick (a causa di un colpo di testa di quest'ultimo) rischierà di distruggerlo, facendo emergere una vecchia paura... E il grande problema di Deacon è la sua incapacità nel chiedere aiuto (anche se sta affogando nel mare in tempesta e ha intorno tante mani tese).

Crick, da parte sua, ha alle spalle un'infanzia disagiata a causa di un ambiente familiare violento e indifferente. Da perfetto pazzo incosciente e impulsivo, farà una follia dietro l'altra, fino all'ultima, clamorosa e potenzialmente letale. Si arruolerà e partirà per l'Iraq. Stare due anni lontano da casa (e da Deacon) lo farà maturare e gli farà capire di non essere un inutile sacco di m**** come pensava suo padre.

La corrispondenza tra i due è molto bella e quello che accade mentre sono lontani dà l'idea di quanto sia difficile e dura una situazione del genere. Grande spazio nel romanzo è occupato dall'omofobia e dall'amicizia, che si trasforma in una sorta di famiglia allargata. Una famiglia vera, che protegge i suoi membri e che cura dall'ignoranza della gente. ( )
  lasiepedimore | Aug 1, 2023 |
Amy Lane manages to do something I usually dislike and make me love it. Sometimes it was a little confusing - I think some of the formatting for the ebook was a little off - but it was interesting, so I didn't care. What she did was a little back and forth with the timeline, Crick or Deacon remembering this or that while experiencing something related somehow. Well done. Meaningful.

Thinking about the whole story now, it's very cool to see how these characters grew and yet, in essence, stayed the same good, loving, fiercely loyal people they started as, despite all the overwhelming, horrid things thrown at them.

This is an awesome story. Very curious now what she'll do with book 2... ( )
  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |
Loved the book!
Once I got into it, I could NOT put it down. ( )
  ravenshaman | Feb 21, 2022 |
A bit less humor and more pathos than the (now) typical Amy Lane offering; she really throws every misfortune imaginable onto the two poor MCs (rather reminding me of the adventures of Mrs. Shakespeare Smith: “ . . . in one short afternoon their family was the scene of births, marriages, deaths, floods, earthquakes, tea-parties, and balloon ascensions.”)! However, for those who like that sort of thing (and I do), this is the sort of thing you’ll like. ( )
  SamSpayedPI | Jan 9, 2022 |
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Keeping Promise Rock: Book One Carrick Francis has spent most of his life jumping into trouble with both feet. The only thing saving him from prison or worse is his absolute devotion to Deacon Winters. Deacon was Crick's sanity and salvation during a miserable, abusive childhood, and Crick would do anything to stay with him forever. So when Deacon's father dies, Crick puts his college plans on hold to help Deacon as Deacon has helped him. Deacon's greatest wish is to see Crick escape his memories and the town they grew up in so Crick can enjoy a shining future. But after two years of growing feelings and temptation, the painfully shy Deacon finally succumbs to Crick's determined advances and admits he sees himself as part of Crick's life. It nearly destroys Deacon when he discovers Crick has been waiting for him to push him away, just like Crick's family did in the past. When Crick's knack for volatile decisions lands him far away from home, Deacon is left, shell-shocked and alone, struggling to reforge his heart in a world where love with Crick is a promise, but by no means a certainty.

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