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La Famiglia (Men Of Gilead Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Deanna Wadsworth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Forrester Giordano comes from a huge, nosy Italian family, and with all their gay jokes and slurs, he’s decided to stay in the closet. He finds respite in his bookstore in the quaint village of Gilead—where he has a huge crush on one of his customers, Kyle Benson.
Kyle is determined to live his dreams, and though life isn’t easy being deaf, one by one he’s making those dreams come true. He’s scored a great job practicing law, bought a cute bungalow where he can finally have a big flower garden, and he has a dog he loves, Jasper. Now he just needs one thing to complete his happiness: a family of his own to make up for the one he never had.
Forrester and Kyle’s relationship starts off hot and heavy, and neither man can deny the depth of their connection. When Forrester’s little brother gets mixed up with their heroin-dealing cousin and his mother falls ill, Forrester has a decision to make—maybe the hardest of his life. For the first time, he’s found a man worth coming out for.
Unfortunately nothing ever goes according to plan with la famiglia.
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Deanna Wadsworth might be a best-selling erotica author, but she leads a pretty vanilla life in Ohio with her wonderful husband and a couple adorable cocker spaniels. She has been spinning tales and penning stories since childhood, and her first erotic novella was published in 2010. When she isn't writing books or brainstorming with friends, you can find her making people gorgeous in a beauty salon. She loves music and dancing, and will often be seen hanging out on the sandbar in the muddy Maumee River or chilling with her hubby and a cocktail in their basement bar. In between all that fun, Deanna cherishes quiet times in her garden when she can let her wildly active imagination have the full run of her mind. Her fascination with people and the interworkings of their relationships has always inspired her to write romance with spice and love without boundaries. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BJS6KGT6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ; 2nd edition (November 18, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 18, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 898 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
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Deanna Wadsworth might be a bestselling erotica author, but she leads a pretty vanilla life in Ohio with her wonderful husband and a couple adorable cocker spaniels. She has been spinning tales and penning stories since childhood, and her first erotic novella was published in 2010. When she isn’t writing books or brainstorming with friends, you can find her making people gorgeous in a beauty salon. She loves music and dancing, and can often be seen hanging out on the sandbar in the muddy Maumee River or chilling with her hubby and a cocktail in their basement bar. In between all that fun, Deanna cherishes the quiet times when she can let her wildly active imagination have the full run of her mind. Her fascination with people and the interworkings of their relationships have always inspired her to write romance with spice and love without boundaries.

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Little_Red03
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022
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This was such a great story. This book is full of laughter and the excitement of finding true love. This book also has some great side characters. I think my favorite was Nonna. This one had me tearing up in a few places.
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Linda Reads
4.0 out of 5 stars Second in standalone M/M series of Gilead Men…touching, passionate and witty
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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Deeply closeted Forrester Giordano owns and operates the bookstore/café named A Novel Idea. He has a secret crush on one of his patrons, the quiet town prosecutor, Kyle Benson. Kyle is all alone except for his little dog, Jasper who is a hilarious terror. Kyle is wealthy due to the death of his older well-insured rich parents. He doesn’t advertise his wealth but he does own a Harley, a select home in a select area of town and a Dodge Challenger 392 SRT8 in “poison green” which makes him the envy of many a guy in town. These two share an affinity to quiet. Forrester aka Frankie to his loud and boisterous Italian family wants quiet and Kyle is deaf so sometimes a lot of noise puts him on edge. All of which they find out after they decide to explore something with each other. Forrester’s secret is his M/M closeted situation but Kyle has a secret too. What could it be? Will Forrester’s family be an obstacle because of his father’s homophobia?
This was a very intricately plotted book with several events waiting for an HEA. These two guys are adorable together and deserve the life they both yearn for. The title is obviously about his noisy, nosy Italian family but there may be a touch of innuendo with Joey and cousin Alfie. Hmmm…If you like poignant, witty and passionate M/M romance, please try this book. I volunteered to review an ARC of it through Gay Romance Reviews.
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M Marshall
5.0 out of 5 stars This is an  amazing story in a series that just shines
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2018
A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review (A MelanieM Review)
Rating: 4.75 stars out of 5

A Men of Gilead Novel

Forrester Giordano comes from a huge, nosy Italian family, and with their homophobic jokes and slurs, he’s decided to stay in the closet. He finds respite in his bookstore in the quaint village of Gilead—where he has a huge crush on one of his customers, Kyle Benson.

Kyle is determined to live his dreams, and though life isn’t easy being deaf, one by one he’s making them come true. He’s scored a great job practicing law, bought a cute bungalow where he can finally have a big flower garden, and he has a dog he loves, Jasper. Now he just needs one thing to complete his happiness: a family of his own to make up for the one he never had.

Forrester and Kyle’s relationship starts off hot and heavy, and neither man can deny the depth of their connection. When Forrester’s little brother gets mixed up with their heroin-dealing cousin and his mother falls ill, Forrester has a decision to make—maybe the hardest of his life. For the first time, he’s found a man worth coming out for.

Unfortunately nothing ever goes according to plan with la famiglia.

I'm just in love with this series and the town by the river, Gilead.  After my first introduction,The Rhubarb Patch (Men of Gilead, #1, where we met author Scott Howe and organic farmer Phineas Robertson, I was enamored of place and men.  That holds true the second time around.  Such a quirky place this Gilead!  You never know what you will find there.  In this  case a huge population of Italians everywhere all coming from one foundation family...that would be the Giordano clan.  Home to one Forrester Giordano, also known as Frankie to his huge, extended, and incredibly boisterous Italian family.

Forrester is the odd family member. He left for college away from the family, only managing an escape for a short time until tragedy pulled him back.  Now he's opened the bookstore of his dreams in Gilead, pouring all of himself into it, leaving little of nothing else, except what his family expects him to give to them.  The demands on him are huge, and the pressures have kept Forrester firmly in the closet.  With Wadsworth's writing, you  absolutely feel for poor Forrester.  On one hand he loves his family, and fears losing them if he comes out.  One the other?  He so wants to be known for himself...Forrester and not the Frankie they call him.  He's an easy character to connect with.

Then Kyle Benson comes into his bookstore and life.  Kyle and Jasper really, his Boston terrier.  Kyle is deaf and has a profound hurt hiding in his background.  It makes trusting people, even when he wants to,  close to impossible.  But something about Forrester makes Kyle want to try.

Two men, full of complications, past histories, and in one case, pain, find an immediate connection but then have to figure out if they can have more.  Because that's the difficult and adult part.  Sex is easy (mostly) but a relationship and HEA?  Well, that's the tricky part as Kyle and Forrester work to navigate not only Forrester's family dynamics but Kyle's history.

Deanna Wadsworth did an incredible job with so many elements here.  Of particular note is the portrayal of Kyle as a deaf person and how it feels growing up deaf in an audible world, complete with communicating and those in the deaf culture who believe that  Kyle's use of a hearing aid is a betrayal.  It rings true and hits hard.  Also feeling authentic is the large Italian family and its dynamics that flow around Forrester at all times.  Warm, frustrating, loving...and believable.

This is an  amazing story in a series that just shines.  Take a trip to Gilead today, you can start here or backtrack to the first story and then head here where the first characters make an appearance as well.  Now I can't wait for the next book in the series!
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DLB2572
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022
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I enjoyed reading this story. This has been a good series so far.

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Kimmers
5.0 out of 5 stars Relatable and Real
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
Deanna Wadsworth’s 'La Famiglia' is the best feel good story I’ve read in months. It’s a beautiful peek into an every-day family’s life; although it be a brash, in your face, hot-headed Italian family. But that is its real charm, making it relatable and real!

If you haven’t read the previous book in her Men of Gilead series don’t worry you’ll follow this one just fine as they are written to be enjoyed as standalone’s with previous couples making cameo appearances for a quick update. But let me just say 'The Rhubarb Patch' is a must read and you don’t want to miss Scott and Phin’s journey.

'La Famiglia' is just that, all about family as Forrester Giordano treads the waters of coming out to the Giordano clan. Since his return home after his father’s death Forrester has sunk everything into his dream of opening his bookstore cafe, A Novel Idea. Back home, and back in the closet, he’s secretly crushing on his favorite patron, Kyle Benson.

He’s learned through observances of, and business interactions with, Kyle that he is deaf, smart, stylish, sexy, funny, loves sci-fi, is chivalrous – out of his league - and of course Forrester’s dream man.

Kyle has spent time connecting with Forrester over their love of books and knows their connection is more than chitchat. One rainy night finds both their yearnings unfolding and we get to watch as the rapport between customer and owner begins its flirtatious dance. Like a good chick-flick you’re drawn into their blooming temptation.

As their attraction unfurls they learn they have so much more in common than books, except Kyle is out and proud – and Forrester is still in the closet. But it seems Kyle has a secret of his own and as he wars with himself you can feel it bears scars.

In 'La Famiglia' you get a true sense of Forrester’s familial bonds, thick with Italian history and old school ways, and you feel his trepidation about coming out. While at the same time Wadsworth builds the tension of what happened to Kyle in his past that has him fearful to let go.

Through earned trust each learn to reveal hurts and fears. Kyle’s secret is as disheartening and disturbing as you can imagine. And Forrester, with Kyle’s love, finds the courage and strength he needs to be his true self. When his truth comes to light Kyles earlier words could not be more true,
“’Being g*# is not who you have sex with. It’s who we are. No matter how hard you try, fate eventually outs you.’” Barriers are broken while a true partnership is born.

These guys are just adorable, yes I said adorable, and at the same time they are bold as all get out. In fact their first kiss gave me that moment of adorable awwwwww we all wish to experience. And if sex can have meaning (which we all know it can) I found each encounter to have such behind it. Add in Kyle’s extra heightened senses, and Wadsworth’s descriptions, these scenes could not display more brilliantly the connection and growth happening between these two men.

What I find I enjoy most about Deanna Wadsworth’s books is there is so much dialogue that molds who the characters are, their back stories, and she uses it with alternating points of view at just the right moments to push the story forward in an engaging fashion. One example of this is at first I didn’t understand how Kyle could be deaf with how he was engaging with Forrester but the way Wadsworth brings it up in conversation and has the details unfold is rather educational, including Kyle’s history with the hearing and deaf communities. And she manages to sprinkle reminders throughout to keep readers aware.

'La Famiglia' is a powerful story of growth injected with humor and a cast of characters who engage you and propel the action along while showing you that coming out can be an adjustment for many parties. Even a tight knit, loving famiglia with a fierce Italian matriarch. Everyone’s coming out should be like this in the sense that we can open our hearts and embrace those we know and love...showing them, love is love!
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sarah mitcham
5.0 out of 5 stars Time To Be His self.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2023
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MM, Insta Attract, Small Town, Contemporary, Romance. Easy to read page-turner, second book in the series and reads great as a stand-alone. Lots of drama, angst and emotion throughout as well as lots of steam. A great read with lots of big characters. Guaranteed HEA.
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