Genre: Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Neurodivergent
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
Underneath that calm demeanour, I sensed lay a deeply passionate man.
Noah:
My parents pounded perfection into my head from a young age. Perfection is how you succeed. Striving for it has allowed me to own one of the most popular British-themed pubs in Victoria, BC. But perfection also makes love unattainable.
But as I get used to being alone, a guy named Brody walks into my pub and becomes a regular, coming in at the same time every weeknight, and always orders the same thing.
Brody reminds me of the sea before a storm. The expression on his beautiful face is often fixed. He doesn’t talk much, but his deep mahogany eyes speak volumes.
There’s someone passionate inside all that outward calm.
The sparks are there, but what I eventually discover about Brody holds me back from pursuing more. A relationship with him would be far from perfect. To call him mine, I need to redefine what perfection looks like.
Noah is a sweet slow-burning romance about a member of the Salish Sea Society, a group of four best friends who have been through a lot together. This novel is set on the rugged coast of Pacific Canada and is a story of newfound understanding of the autism spectrum and finding passion and love beating beneath the chest of a man of carefully measured words and silent looks.
The Review
Noah (Salish Sea Society Book 1), based in British Columbia, is Noah and Brody’s story of how they met, and how they overcame their problems to become a loving couple. Brody is on the autism spectrum, and is a successful crown prosecutor. Noah owns a successful pub, and would be on the insecurity spectrum, if there was one.
Both guys have a lot of barriers to break down and trust to build before they can move forward. Brody has the support of his family and his assistant Alesia. Noah has his three best friends (all members of the Salish Sea Society) his bar staff, and his siblings. But not his parents, who look down on his choice of career. Brody goes home at night to his house full of cuddle buddies, ie. his pets, and Noah goes home to an empty apartment.
They meet, they are attracted to each other and find out enough about each other to know there is no one else they’d rather be with. Throw in a couple of hiccups and some hot bedroom action and there you might have had it. But no… there is so much more here to enjoy. You’ll have to read it yourself to find out.
A lot of great side characters, along with the central characters, who are lovely guys and deserve a wonderful life together.
The Reviewer
Tony is an Englishman living amongst the Welsh and the Other Folk in the mountains of Wales. He lives with his partner of thirty-six years, four dogs, two ponies, various birds, and his bees. He is a retired lecturer and a writer of no renown but that doesn’t stop him enjoying what he used to think of as ‘sensible’ fantasy and sf. He’s surprised to find that if the story is well written and has likeable characters undergoing the trails of life, i.e. falling in love, falling out of love, having a bit of nooky (but not all the time), fending off foes, aliens and monsters, etc., he’ll be happy as a sandperson who has just offloaded a wagon of sand at the going market price. As long as there’s a story, he’s in. He aims to write fair and honest reviews. If he finds he is not the target reader he’ll move on.
