The Only Gold edition by Tamara Allen Cory Clubb Literature Fiction eBooks
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Jonah Woolner's life is as prudently regulated as the bank where he works. It's a satisfying life until he's passed over for promotion in favor of newcomer Reid Hylliard. Brash and enterprising, Reid beguiles everyone except Jonah, who's convinced Reid's progressive ideas will be the bank's ruin. When Jonah begins to discover there's more to Reid than meets the eye, he risks succumbing to Reid's charms-but unlocking the vault to all of Reid's secrets could lead him down a dangerous path.
Losing his promotion-and perhaps his heart-is the least of Jonah's difficulties. When the vengeful son of a Union army vet descends upon the bank to steal a government deposit of half a million dollars during the deadliest blizzard to ever sweep New York, Jonah and Reid are trapped, at odds and fighting for their lives.
The Only Gold edition by Tamara Allen Cory Clubb Literature Fiction eBooks
Well, it's more than a bromance, but the way Tamara Allen leads Jonah and Reid up to the point where they go beyond budding, if not frustrating, friendship and trust to lovers is both typical of her style, and totally in keeping with the characters, plotline, setting and pace of the novel.I love these turn-of-the-century books, especially those which take place in New York City, especially with MCs that include one uptight and conservative gay man and one fairly loose but also closeted gay man. In this book as in "Whistling in the Dark," and for a while "The Road to Silver Plume" Allen slowly introduces us to both New York City's peculiarities and a plotline that will go completely in another direction once or twice along the way--especially in the last quarter of the book.
More importantly she takes her time to develop the MCs fully. And they are superb creations. Jonah (I believe right on the cover) is as closeted and lonely and anti-social as one can expect of a 32-year-old banker who has devoted himself to the bank only to have his dream crushed in the opening paragraphs. Reid (I believe on the left on the cover) is a very direct, very social, innovative character about the same age but with an eye for the future, plans on how to implement his ideas, and an extremely annoying (to Jordan) tendency to upset bank traditions without consulting him or anyone else first. That's mostly because Reid, an outsider, was brought in to run the bank, a job everyone expected to be Jonah's, and no one saw coming except the bank directors.
You can see the frozen relationship start to melt a bit, but not much, through the first third of the book, which is appropriate since so much of the time is spent in a bitterly cold, snowy winter in New York City. I absolutely reveled in the way Ms. Allen describes virtually to a "T" all the nuances and settings and trials and travails and customs and styles that were prevalent during those days. This is what makes what eventually turns out to be a steamy romance (though not very explicit in its many love scenes), unexpected turns in the plot, and an extraordinarily exciting bunch of action and mildly violent scenes in the last quarter of the book work so well. It works especially well because even though it's in third person, most of the tale is told from Jonah's POV and experience, which leads to the surprises in store along the way.
You can get a gist from the way this one might wind up from the book's blurb, which I think should have been more subtle in its description of how the plot takes off. But what you won't get from that blurb is the exceptional beauty of the language, the entrancing and beguiling romance, and the sense of place and time that Ms. Allen weaves in a book that could, if she so chooses, kick off a sequel. Wonderful, just wonderful.
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The Only Gold edition by Tamara Allen Cory Clubb Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Both of Allen's previous novels "Whistling in the Dark" and "Downtime" are superbly written and richly plotted. This third book lives up to those, and offers the lucky reader a new experience to savor, emotionally as well as literarily.
In the world of m/m romance, Tamara Allen is one of the rare few (along with Alex Beecroft) who can pull off a historic setting and do it with near perfection. Her use of language, her research into historical detail, and her ability to create a romantic atmosphere that works for a modern reader without imposing anachronistic details or attitudes - all of this is impressive, and clearly has earned her a devoted readership.
I'm not sure how many of her readers are men - so I'll make it clear that I am. I'm also a museum curator, and my specialty is the Gilded Age. I'm the annoying person who critiques movies like "Gone with the Wind" because they don't get the Civil War period right. The point being that Allen can write an historical novel and make it sing AND ring true. Jack Finney's famous "Time and Again," did it really well, and Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" also did...but neither of these best-selling authors exceeds Allen's skill. And, of course, neither of them was a gay romance.
Allen draws out emotional tension as well as Jane Austen did, if for different reasons. Reid Hyllier and Jonah Woolner are characters that are authentic in every way, and I fell for them just the way I was supposed to. In some ways Allen's writing is really speculative fiction, in that she writes about something (i.e. men in love with men) that was never written about at the time...but nonetheless existed...it's powerful to be able to give that a voice that doesn't sound like "today," and allows the reader to fall into the fantasy of "what if...?"
I really liked this book. It's a slowwwwwww burn. In fact, at about 30%, when all the MCs had done was argue with each other (yes, flirting, but because of the time period it was so formal) I was starting to lose interest. Then, it picked up and by the time of the Big Event, I was still reading at 245 a.m. and my stomach was actually in knots wondering over Reid's true character.
I enjoyed the slow development of the relationship but a little more chemistry early on would have been welcome (it didn't really feel much like a romance in the first part of the book, and was heavy on antebellum banking practices). The sex was sweet and not very detailed. I would have liked some more heat, steam and description. I liked both MCs, and I grew to understand why Jonah couldn't let himself unravel in any way, though he doesn't use that analogy until the very end of the book. A plot point - it was pretty unrealistic that the Damsel In Distress showed up when and why she did. But, I guess it made for more drama in the Big Event.
If you can get through the slow beginning and don't mind your sex scenes sweet instead of spicy, I think you will like The Only Gold.
Well, it's more than a bromance, but the way Tamara Allen leads Jonah and Reid up to the point where they go beyond budding, if not frustrating, friendship and trust to lovers is both typical of her style, and totally in keeping with the characters, plotline, setting and pace of the novel.
I love these turn-of-the-century books, especially those which take place in New York City, especially with MCs that include one uptight and conservative gay man and one fairly loose but also closeted gay man. In this book as in "Whistling in the Dark," and for a while "The Road to Silver Plume" Allen slowly introduces us to both New York City's peculiarities and a plotline that will go completely in another direction once or twice along the way--especially in the last quarter of the book.
More importantly she takes her time to develop the MCs fully. And they are superb creations. Jonah (I believe right on the cover) is as closeted and lonely and anti-social as one can expect of a 32-year-old banker who has devoted himself to the bank only to have his dream crushed in the opening paragraphs. Reid (I believe on the left on the cover) is a very direct, very social, innovative character about the same age but with an eye for the future, plans on how to implement his ideas, and an extremely annoying (to Jordan) tendency to upset bank traditions without consulting him or anyone else first. That's mostly because Reid, an outsider, was brought in to run the bank, a job everyone expected to be Jonah's, and no one saw coming except the bank directors.
You can see the frozen relationship start to melt a bit, but not much, through the first third of the book, which is appropriate since so much of the time is spent in a bitterly cold, snowy winter in New York City. I absolutely reveled in the way Ms. Allen describes virtually to a "T" all the nuances and settings and trials and travails and customs and styles that were prevalent during those days. This is what makes what eventually turns out to be a steamy romance (though not very explicit in its many love scenes), unexpected turns in the plot, and an extraordinarily exciting bunch of action and mildly violent scenes in the last quarter of the book work so well. It works especially well because even though it's in third person, most of the tale is told from Jonah's POV and experience, which leads to the surprises in store along the way.
You can get a gist from the way this one might wind up from the book's blurb, which I think should have been more subtle in its description of how the plot takes off. But what you won't get from that blurb is the exceptional beauty of the language, the entrancing and beguiling romance, and the sense of place and time that Ms. Allen weaves in a book that could, if she so chooses, kick off a sequel. Wonderful, just wonderful.
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