Avail Yourself Beneath The StainPart Six Crafted By Amy Lane Available As Audiobook
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Come say Hi sitelinkTB on TSU Now I remember why I fell in love with Grant in the first book.
Can't wait to read the last one, Second read: just amazing
Spoon me like a man
You know Sometimes you just know!!
Sometimes we all fall apart, sometimes we know it's going to happen and sometimes we don't.
But what makes it bearable is to know you have good friends, friends that's more family than friends and family who loves you unconditionally and a lover who you know will pick up the pieces and put you back together.
That is
what makes these kids so special they are all so different and amazing as individuals but put them together and you have one hell of a group a group of boys who change my life for the better Oh Grant!
I've tried and miserably failed to wait until at least midweek to read partbut that did not work.
Now I will be patient and wait until next week to read the rest, I LOVE this book and while I am so grateful for the extra scenes, I wonder why did I do this I know if I had Beneath the Stain in full I could easily not move until it is done.
stars!
I'm so consumed with this story, I can't hardly find any words for this,
I need a HEA in book, please ,
Gaaahh!! Why was this so short! I really liked it but I wanted MORE!
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Im trying not to be pissy here,
Its not working.
What in the everluvinworld happened
Okay, Im going to start with my biggest beefthe timing, The conclusion of each part has been pivotal thus far sometimes leaving you hanging by a thread and others agitated but satisfied, This particular segment was poorly sectioned,
It wasn't enough sixtysix percent Come on! and it felt incomplete,
Which of course, it is incomplete, but it was, not enough.
Next, characters were out of character, Trav is not the tuck tail and run kind of guy, I dont buy it for a minute, He would NOT leave Mackey during such a vulnerable time,
Nope. I see him fighting till hes bloody and cant throw another punch, I was upset and disappointed in him,
scowls Dont let me down Trav,
Third, the dialogue was wacky and had some mistakes scattered throughout, It was disorderly and did not flow well, Maybe massive cuts were done as well I felt holes and some big enough that I almost fell in,
Finally, extra angst was tossed in unnecessarily, As if some added wow factor was needed and frankly, it wasn't, Theres been enough bloodshed I could have done without Cheever and his stupidity, Things felt too fast for Grant, I am aware that cancer strikes randomly and rapidly, but I was as if someone hit the fast forward button on his critical heartbreaking return, The comment about 'seeing you as a couple' and the kiss was, . . maddening. I cannot imagine facing your demons and realizing they weren't demons after all, but I didn't think it was executed properly,
There was no balance,
It was too short,
It was out of tune,
I wanna go back to my happy place,
Part six was not a happy place and now the pressure has been amped up, this next final part is going to make it or break it,
holds breath
Please please please, blow me away.
movingonpleaseandthankyou
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Too short, and the way it ended, . . it had to end right there didn't it, I'm almost afraid to read the last part, but I know I must,
In the sixth installment of the amazing Amy Lane's Beneath the Stain, Trav finally gets to meet Grant, In Trav's mind, Grant is this specter that hangs over the Sanders brothers and Outbreak Monkey, affecting everything they do, Grant is the reason Mackey is an addict, Grant is the first love to which Trav will forever play second guitar, Well, Blake is the replacement guitarist, but second guitar seemed so much more appropriate for my purposes than second fiddle,
Grant stayed behind in Tyson when Outbreak Monkey signed their recording contract and left to become rock, He has a wife and daughter and is living as a straight man, though the entire band now knows the truth about him and Mackey, Grant is the cowriter on all of Mackey's early songs, some of which Mackey wrote in tribute to his love for Grant, Grant is sent a royalty check each month from the band's earnings because of the role he played in their early, local success, And Grant is dying.
Immediately after their tour ends, the members of Outbreak Monkey, all but one of whom grew up with Grant, and Trav their manager and Mackey's lover fly home to Tyson to see Grant.
This is the first time Mackey has been home in years, He is forced to confront all the ghosts and demons that remain there, The ones he ran to the bottle and the needle to forget, The ones that landed him in the hospital after being raped, The ones that made Trav all but force him into rehab,
What the young men find when they arrive in Tyson is a town that hasn't changed from the poverty stricken, redneck small town they left behind, They find a small, sad shell of their friend and former lover, stuck in a hatefilled marriage, living with parents who are disgusted by him, They find his daughter, the one bright spot in the hell surrounding them, They find the homophobia they left behind has just grown stronger in their physical absence but tabloid presence,
In Part Six, Ms, Lane does what she does best, She makes the emotions of her characters come to life and lift off the pages to swirl about in your room like a mist until they surround you and penetrate your every pore and make you feel everything they are experiencing.
It is deliciously excruciating. It is sinus headache inducing, It is the magic that is Amy Lane,
This installment of the series sets up the final one, in which Outbreak Monkey's story, at least for our purposes, comes to an end, But it does so much more than set up the end, We know these men on a deeper level than before, And I thought I knew them already, We see sides of them especially Trav, that we didn't know existed, And we get closure on our anger toward Grant, That anger and sense of betrayal at the events that occurred as a result of his actions mixes with that mist of feelings surrounding you and is absorbed by osmosis until it is so diluted with love and understanding that it is no longer noticeable.
Unlike the amazing Amy Lane, I have a limited supply of superlatives, There are only so many times I can say her books are good, great, amazing, astounding, etc, At some point, you all just have to know what my bottom line is: read this book,
This one hurt. Part Six
The storm is coming, . .
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The waiting is horrible, . . need the last part now! If you've been reading along, then you know the big revelation at the end of part five regarding Grant and the cancer that's just been diagnosed.
You know that the entire band, including Trav, are heading back to Tyson to see Grant, Grant has, maybe, a couple of months, Oh, the tenuous bonds that Mackey and Trav have formed are really being tested here, And poor Mackey is going to need to say goodbye to Grant, to the life they could've had, to the anger and pain Mackey still carries around, So, if you're ready, get your glass or bottle of wine, and your super, extra soft, aloe tissues, This is Amy Lane, baby, You're gonna need them.
“You left me once and it almost killed me,” Mackey admitted, his chest feeling like raw meat, “I mean if rehab hadnt took, I wouldnt be standing here right now, and thats the truth, And now youre leaving me again, and if Trav cant stay with me through this, Im not gonna make it, ” His voice cracked, but he pulled it back in, He was stronger than this, dammit,
Grant closed his eyes and nodded, “Well, you tell Trav that its enough you guys came, You tell him to stick around, I dont want any more of your soul than you already gave me, Mackey, I dont deserve more. I just want my brothers back before I go, ”
Oh, sobfest, I'm not sure I'm going to make it through this book in one piece, Mackey is ripping me apart, and I don't know what's going to be left of me, if anything, Trav is seriously struggling, once they reach Tyson, because it's so hard for him to look at this crappy town and know that his boys, his boys, grew up here in this dismal, suffocating environment, fighting for their lives at every turn.
It's tearing Trav up, and he just wants to scream, Or hit something. Preferably, someone. Unfortunately, it can't be Grant, How can Trav not be angry with him after what he did to Mackey But how can he be angry when he sees how hard Grant took care of all the guys back in the day
“Nope,” Grant said, all serenity.
He watched Mackey adjust the feed for probably the last time, “Nope. When I die, I am going to be free, ”
As I expected would happen, the guys and Trav don't make it out of their free hometown concert without a fight, I knew those stupid, bigoted assholes who populate that town wouldn't be able to be even remotely human, Although, I have to admit, seeing Heath come to bail them out was pretty fricking funny! But Trav has got to get his head on straight, especially regarding Grant, or everything he and Mackey have worked toward is going to explode and leave them in ruin.
“You do that,” he snarled, “You take a day to get your head straight, Travis, And then you be fucking ready, because I am hauling you back by your military haircut, You promised me, and aint nobody promised me before, and Ill hold you to that shit if it kills me!”
As promised, this part killed me.
I knew it was going to, but that's the power of Amy Lane, She gives me these people who will live in my heart and in my mind for the rest of my life, and I let her tear me up and put me back together.
One part left, and it's going to be a doozy, I know it. You know it.
Every word, Amy, Every word. .