A Fostered Love

Returning to the one place Jonah Roberts ever thought of as home was very difficult for him, but he owed it to one of the few people who never gave up on him. When his foster mother passed away her final request to Jonah was to help his foster brother Christian renovate and sell her house, but seeing Christian again after fifteen years opened up a flood gate of emotions Jonah so badly wanted to keep closed. When he left fifteen years ago, Christian was so young and Jonah knew Christian would be better off forgetting about him, but walking out of Christian's life may not be so easy this time. Christian Sanchez knew that what he felt for Jonah all those years ago was so much more than a crush. Before he could convince Jonah that even though he was young he knew his heart, Jonah was forced out of his life. The man who return was even more lonesome and closed off then the boy Christian remembered. Will Christian be able to convince Jonah this time that he is worthy of being loved? A Fostered Loved was an emotionally draining story. Jonah really tugged at the heartstrings, he was closed off from the world emotionally and he felt he was not good for Christian. Cameron Dane did a really good job with this story, Christian and Jonah were both foster kids but Christian was much more emotionally together than Jonah and even though Jonah was the older, worldly one Christian was the stronger one. I was brought to tears quite often reading A Fostered Loved, it was a great story, beautifully written and I really enjoyed it. Ley Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 9/10 PROS: - This is my favorite kind of story: two people who knew each other way back when meet up again and find that the attraction has not only survived, but grown. - I really believed in the strength of the characters' feelings for EACH OTHER specifically. Sure, Christian's been with guys before, but Dane does a really good job of showing exactly how susceptible Christian is to Jonah's charms in particular. And I thought the same was (doubly) true for Jonah: Christian's not just another body to satisfy Jonah's sexual appetite. Christian is CHRISTIAN. - There's a lot of sex, and it's not just suggestive. It's explicit and detailed. It's also wonderfully sweet and emotional, which is my favorite characteristic in sex scenes. - I loved--loved, loved--some of the scenes, especially toward the beginning, in which Jonah demonstrates his possessive streak where Christian is concerned. Christian's no delicate flower, but Jonah's SUPER protective nonetheless. - The ending of the story is very settled. Not just a typical happily ever after ("the guys are together and have each said the L word to the other"--not that I dislike plain old HEAs, of course), but a happily ever after *plus* ("all of the above plus they've taken measures to be together long-term"). CONS: - The plot climax was over more quickly than I thought it would be, but I didn't find myself terribly upset about it because the way things turn out is actually pretty realistic. - Some little typos and editing issues here and there, although this is one of the cleaner, more mistake-free books I've read in this genre. Overall comments: I really enjoyed watching the emotional unfolding of the relationship in this novel. The plot is a little on the so-so side, but I was so focused on the guys' romance that I wasn't all that interested in reading the plot developments anyway. There's quite a bit of graphic sex, so if you're not into that, you might not enjoy this one. But if you don't mind explicit sex scenes and enjoy books in which the relationship is primary, I highly recommend this.

This was a good book ... entertaining, compelling, and surprisingly without statement. This book is about love and romance and not about gender and choices. I love that ... the freedom to enjoy a story without worrying about some other reader's moral bent. I can say enough good things about this book, the author and the concept. Highly Recommended!

What makes a home? Four walls and a roof? Love and acceptance and a sense of connection? Cameron Dane's A Fostered Love is about finding a home and holding on to it in spite of one's fears. As always with Ms. Dane's work, this is very well written. A Fostered Love grabs your attention and pulls you into the story so that you feel like you're there, painting the walls and tearing up flooring with them. It's not full of danger and adventure, because the focus of this story is the relationship between the two heroes; however, the stalker David adds a suspenseful touch to the story that I quite enjoyed. The stalker acts as a catalyst for Jonah to face his fears and to see that the one thing he wants the most is also that which frightens him the most. Christian and Jonah are an endearing pair in this story. Jonah doesn't have many social skills, and that trait makes him an interestingly flawed character. After the social isolation that he has kept himself in for so long, he finds his new emotions overwhelming. He has always felt "defective" because of his disconnection, but once the feelings start rushing in, he sometimes wishes he were back in that that place of numbness. Ms. Dane is an expert at creating sexual tension, and these two have it in spades. The love scenes are very sensual and are also emotional, as Jonah reaches and embraces his relationship with Christian with both arms, and Christian discovers that what began as a teenaged crush has developed into love. As so we come back to the question: what makes a house a home? In A Fostered Love, home is not just walls and a roof to keep the weather out. Rather, it is the person and the emotion that are found in the house that make a home.

I have always found that Cameron Dane's books have an high emotional level impact and this last one is not different. What maybe I found different was that the story is "normal", nice and sweet, without paranormal elements, and so maybe more linked to reality. Jonah and Christian were foster kid in the same home. Not really kid truth be told, more young men, at 14 and 16 years old. Maybe since they were similar in age, or maybe since she saw ahead of them, Marisol, the woman who took care of them, put them together in the same room and asked to Jonah, the older, to be as an older brother for Christian, to play as role model. That last part didn't work right, and Jonah made the bigger mistake of his life and went in a juvenile prison. But before he was taken by the cops, Christian shout out his love for Jonah to everyone who could hear him. That was the last time Jonah and Christian were together in the previous 15 years, even when Jonah came out of prison, he didn't come back to Christian, on the contrary he tried to cut off any bond he had with him other than Marisol. But now Marisol is dead and she asked him to help Christian to renovate her home and then sell it for raising money to donate to child care. Jonah can't deny this last wish to the only woman who showed him love, and so now he is again in front of Christian. Jonah is the typical abused child. Having no one shows him love for the first 14 years of his life, doesn't teach him as to do it. The only person he thought was his only love bond, even if an abusive love, turned him to the system. And when Marisol entered his life, it was too late for him to learn how to love. What he felt for Christian is not exactly love, it's more a protective feeling: even if Christian had his problem with his own family, there are still hope for him to grown and become a good man, and so Jonah reflects in him what he knows he can't achieve. Christian becomes Jonah's hope for the future, he will have the good life he can't have. But Jonah doesn't achieve his goal becoming Christian's protector, on the contrary, he decides to leave him: Jonah considers himself not worthy of Christian's love since the man deserves someone better than him. Years later Jonah is forced to face again Christian; in the last 15 years Jonah hasn't really had any relationship with another human soul, nor friendship or love. He is like an half man, like the single wing he has tattooed on the shoulder, he is not complete. Probably if Christian had a good life for his own, he would let him in peace, but Christian is alone. At first Jonah continues to deny what he and Christian himself really desire, but then he rushes to the center of it: from not wanting Christian to almost trying to hiding him to the world to have him all for himself. There is a rollercoast of emotion in the book, no half measure, and there is definitely a changing in the characters: at first Jonah appears to be the one in charge, he is the one who decides if star