carol 's Reviews > Billie Jean

This was a delightful story of a budding romance between two men, Niall and Dan.
There is an honesty and naivety in these characters. Niall, now at college, a dancer...but against all odds maybe, as his past is revealed and the once neglected child from a background of poverty now developing as a man but any confidence seems still only skin deep. The underlying insecurities and feeling of inadequacy versus the act of confidence, even bravado really got to me. I taught so many children like this, oh that they would all find themselves, and a reciprocating good relationship.

Niall's love of female sexy lingerie was a delight to read, how he felt when wearing such and the effects when combined with his music and dance...well, I wanted to watch him dance and with undies on too. Something of a Billy Elliot maybe...
Then there's Dan, police officer, very much Niall's opposite in many ways, perhaps still not completely secure in his relationship with Niall...or is he...I felt maybe a red herring to mislead us readers there. He knows the criminal characters he deals with but fails to imprint the dangers to Niall.

I have to say I loved Dan's response to seeing Niall dance, could fully understand Niall's train of thought and fears too, and I loved Dan's acceptance of Niall's kink and how it affected him too.

Oh, this story gave me a range of emotions. It was a plausible storyline and situation between two everyday guys. The sex too was so good.

I had a range of emotions for these characters and situations they experienced, from a tear in my eye, to smile, to fear for them, to hope, to happiness as how it ends.
I realised I cared for them both because they could have been real. It isn't so often I become attached to characters but these I did, perhaps Niall slightly more than Dan. I would love to have had more detail and depth and a longer story here.

I have rated this as 4.5 stars but as any good Maths teacher tells us, round up from that mid point not down.