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Back Home
by
R.J. Scott (Goodreads Author)
Kieran Addison, in his teens falls in love with his brothers boyfriend, so he runs away to another country to bury himself in a career so he can forget. When his brother is killed in a car accident Kieran comes back briefly for the funeral, but then leaves almost immediately, emotions too raw to face Jordan Salter.
It's only when his father becomes Ill, and his sister begs...more
It's only when his father becomes Ill, and his sister begs...more
ebook, 256 pages
Published
April 2nd 2011
by Silver Publishing
(first published April 1st 2011)
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I just love RJ’s books.
This one was an excellent read with lots of emotions. I loved how the relationship between J and Kieran developed. I easily connected to the story and characters and the whole time I was reading I felt like I was in the story. It made me laugh and cry at parts, it was wonderful reading a story that had me feel so connected to it.
This one was an excellent read with lots of emotions. I loved how the relationship between J and Kieran developed. I easily connected to the story and characters and the whole time I was reading I felt like I was in the story. It made me laugh and cry at parts, it was wonderful reading a story that had me feel so connected to it.
I held off on this one for a while, even though I've loved most of the other R.J. Scott books I've read. The whole getting together with your dead brother's lover bit kindof put me off. I was leery of angsty guilt-filled confusion-riddled back and forth. But she handled it so well! Both men were grown-up and honest about their feelings, both for each other and for Brad, the dead brother. They didn't jump into something and then regret it and get all confused and push each other away, which I lov...more
RJ Scott should write for the screen. Back Home is rich in color and texture that would be amazing in live action.
An emotional drama, Jordan and Kieran have quite a bit to work through if they have any hope of being together. This takes up a major part of the book. I'm glad that it isn't easy. Both men are stubborn and have their own version of past events. Unraveling the truth, understanding their guilt and grief, and still having to deal with the weight of a family crisis is so very real. Mos...more
An emotional drama, Jordan and Kieran have quite a bit to work through if they have any hope of being together. This takes up a major part of the book. I'm glad that it isn't easy. Both men are stubborn and have their own version of past events. Unraveling the truth, understanding their guilt and grief, and still having to deal with the weight of a family crisis is so very real. Mos...more
Second chances M/M romance about some folks that were seriously damaged by a family member. Kieran Addison left home the day after graduation, he ran to London with his best friend to find a life where he didn't have to watch his older brother date the love of his life Jordan Salter. Jordan stayed in their hometown with the Addison family, even after Brad's death, Jordan stayed to support the family emotionally and financially but running the family business.
Brad (the older brother) is only seen...more
Brad (the older brother) is only seen...more
I've always wondered why women dig this stuff. Then again, most of the M/M romance writers I've read are women in real life. Heh--it's been a long time since I've read a satisfying romantic story. Why, dammit!? Rarely do I get intense emotional highs from reading highbrow/middlebrow books. This whole month I just had to escape from that behemoth textbook, Brunner & Suddarth, or else I would have gone mad/suffocated myself. Seriously, the weight of that thing dropped over someone's head could...more
I really enjoyed it. Jordan and Kiernan are both interesting guys, both who've experienced years of emotional pain...for different reasons. They have unique and well developed personalities and their pasts have left them deeply wounded. Yet, Ms. Scott has created two strong men that life hasn't completely crushed...only bent.
I liked the rich details of the area and the relationships within Kiernan's family. Ms. Scott did a very nice job showing the caring and love between them despite Kiernan b...more
I liked the rich details of the area and the relationships within Kiernan's family. Ms. Scott did a very nice job showing the caring and love between them despite Kiernan b...more
Somewhere spinning inside his head there is a bit of guilt tripping for an incident of several years ago when Kieran as a teenager discovered he’s gay. An act instigated by his brother, Brad, and one of lasting effect. Kieran falls in love with Jordan, his brother’s lover and there isn’t one single thing he could or would do about it.
Kieran was thirteen.
Years later, after leaving home for college in England and the time he comes back home permanently, Kieran’s feelings for Jordan hasn’t change...more
Kieran was thirteen.
Years later, after leaving home for college in England and the time he comes back home permanently, Kieran’s feelings for Jordan hasn’t change...more
R.J. Scott writes a great drama-filled tale for sure. Sometimes I feel like I am watching a soap opera as the angst-filled plot takes me along for a major emotional roller-coaster ride. Back Home was no exception. There is drama and angst and all sorts of emotional blackmail. I was very entertained.
Brrrr. Imagine being in love with your brother's boyfriend (Jordan) when you reach puberty and your hormones are dancing the lambada... And you keep being in love with the same forbidden man as you grow up and reach adulthood. He is practically living in your family house, and you see him everyday etc. I hurt for Kieran. His solution: running away! ( I would have done the same). But then tragedy made him come back. And what he expected to be torture (seeing Jordan everyday, seeing and not touchi...more
This was a perfectly fine book. It just didn't do anything for me.
Jordan is working himself into an early grave just to keep the family business running. Technically it's not even his family's business; it's his ex-boyfriend's family business. The kicker is that he himself is like a son in the family he has known and loved his entire life. When his boyfriend died two years ago he stuck around to help the family out, even though he had lost everything. It wasn't just his lover he lost, it was hi...more
Jordan is working himself into an early grave just to keep the family business running. Technically it's not even his family's business; it's his ex-boyfriend's family business. The kicker is that he himself is like a son in the family he has known and loved his entire life. When his boyfriend died two years ago he stuck around to help the family out, even though he had lost everything. It wasn't just his lover he lost, it was hi...more
Wonderful! A truly heart warming story. And OMG sizzling hot scenes, I could not put the book down. This book is well rounded and Well written. A nice treat noted, R.J. Scott gave an actual happily ever after. Loved it!
A wonderfully romantic love story with a message of honesty is always the best policy and love will find a way.The characters are outstanding and the story well told. I absolutely love this book.
This was an emotional read without there being too much angst. Jordan and Kiernan are both damaged and laden with guilt which has accumulated over the years from when Jordan kissed Kiernan on his 16th birthday.
Kiernan had run off to London 6 years ago to get over Jordan who was in a relationship with his brother Brad so was out of bounds,
Brad dies in an accident and after the funeral there is another kiss which causes Kiernan to run to London for a 2nd time.
Kiernan returns home a couple of year...more
Kiernan had run off to London 6 years ago to get over Jordan who was in a relationship with his brother Brad so was out of bounds,
Brad dies in an accident and after the funeral there is another kiss which causes Kiernan to run to London for a 2nd time.
Kiernan returns home a couple of year...more
06/11/2011 - Full of angst, keep tissues at hand.
16/11/2012 - Reread it and I still love it.
16/11/2012 - Reread it and I still love it.
It's telling, that I'm writing this review about three days after I finished it, and I had to think hard to try to remember what happens in it.
It's not a bad book. It just wasn't memorable in any way. Back Home was the third or so book by RJ Scott I read, and it's better some ways than the other ones (at least it didn't repeat itself or have the same phrases the other two I read recently did...), but it also left me feeling a bit "Oh, that was it?".
Nice overall story, nice characters, nice sex...more
Almost half way read and loving it so far... why do I want Evan to be gay???
3-1/2 stars
I loved loved the first half and was just ok with the second half!!!... except the part where they confront each other and then start smooch talking. I guess I didnt get each others arguments for being mad/gone...it didn't feel legit to me. Seemed a bit hurried for such an angsty beginning. But besides that, I liked it lots!=)
I still want Evan to be gay and I want to know why he left in the first place. I dont...more
3-1/2 stars
I loved loved the first half and was just ok with the second half!!!... except the part where they confront each other and then start smooch talking. I guess I didnt get each others arguments for being mad/gone...it didn't feel legit to me. Seemed a bit hurried for such an angsty beginning. But besides that, I liked it lots!=)
I still want Evan to be gay and I want to know why he left in the first place. I dont...more
Warning! Minor spoilers!
The author gave the characters so many juicy secrets. I don't know why she didn't use them to build upon Kieran and Jordan's relationship. :/ They jumped right from hating each others guts to not being able to keep their hands off each other. There was no sexual tension build up to it. There was no type of built up to it at all. It just kind of...happened. It didn't make much sense, following their POV's.
For some readers, establishing the romance might be the utmost impo...more
The author gave the characters so many juicy secrets. I don't know why she didn't use them to build upon Kieran and Jordan's relationship. :/ They jumped right from hating each others guts to not being able to keep their hands off each other. There was no sexual tension build up to it. There was no type of built up to it at all. It just kind of...happened. It didn't make much sense, following their POV's.
For some readers, establishing the romance might be the utmost impo...more
It's not me copping out to say I liked this story, because I did. I liked Jordan and empathized with Keiren. I did have some problems with how the whole not-there love triangle went. Though RJ did a great job at showing both men feeling guilt and regret in how things had gone, and in some of what they were doing. It was a human reaction shown, a realistic one.
I had to wonder though, about Jordan's hand. It was mentioned at first a few times, but even just a couple of weeks later, not at all. You...more
I had to wonder though, about Jordan's hand. It was mentioned at first a few times, but even just a couple of weeks later, not at all. You...more
Back Home is a novel which contains quite a bit of drama. There are so many dynamics and layers to this story, hidden within the main romance, I wanted to go back and read it all a second time to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
Jordan is a young man who has made his home with the family of his deceased partner, Brad. Jordan works for the family business, doing detailed construction work for major and specialist refurbishments for the company Brad would have one day inherited had he not passed...more
Jordan is a young man who has made his home with the family of his deceased partner, Brad. Jordan works for the family business, doing detailed construction work for major and specialist refurbishments for the company Brad would have one day inherited had he not passed...more
4.5 stars
This one was definitely sweet and sad but at the same time it made me giddy and happy.
I loved Jordan and I loved seeing him work through his feelings for Kieran but at the same time struggle with his dead lover, Brad, and the accusations Brad made before he died. Jordan had a lot of guilt over Brad's death and what he's felt for Kieran for so long. I really liked Kieran, too. I admit, at first, I wasn't sure if I would because of how he left Jordan and his family but overall I really d...more
This one was definitely sweet and sad but at the same time it made me giddy and happy.
I loved Jordan and I loved seeing him work through his feelings for Kieran but at the same time struggle with his dead lover, Brad, and the accusations Brad made before he died. Jordan had a lot of guilt over Brad's death and what he's felt for Kieran for so long. I really liked Kieran, too. I admit, at first, I wasn't sure if I would because of how he left Jordan and his family but overall I really d...more
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I am skipping the plot summary and just want to say that while it has an Interesting premise and at times, some touching and emotional scenes, but there's just something off in the dialog and some scenes just seem awkward... especially the scene where Jordan and Kieran reconcile. The story seems struggling to find a balance between being sensitive and sombre (given the tradegies involved) and being smutty...;)
With RJ it is not just about the romance. I read one of the reviewers say she should write for the movies and the reviewer is right. You can practically SEE the story unfold in front of you, and the characters are so real with real human faults. I find that in her books there is always a character, or a scene, or an emotion or even a thought that resonates deeply with me and this book is no different.
Can't wait for more from RJ.
Can't wait for more from RJ.
This was such a beautiful story! Okay…it was a little predictable, but it was also so emotional. I felt so much for Jordan and Kieran, and poor Jordan was breaking my heart. I didn’t cry while reading this but it did make my chest hurt. There isn’t a lot of smexy time in this one, but it is filled with a lot of steamy sexual tension!
I think is the my 4th by this author. I'm a big fan. But I could never quite get a feel for the two main characters in this one. The story was fine. The angst, etc... all okay. It was the two mains that I had a problem with.
Overall a good story. Just not my favorite by this author.
Overall a good story. Just not my favorite by this author.
This was a lovely book. I wasn't sure I would like a guy falling in love with his dead lover's brother but that was really done. Kieran and Jordan are both sweet but there is enough angst to bring a few tears once or twice. I really enjoyed this one, much more than The Heart of Texas.
Very good m/m romance about an architect from Vermont who's been living in London to avoid his brother's boyfriend, even though his brother died two years ago. Then his dad gets sick and his sister begs him to come home to help salvage the family construction company...
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The situation those two found themselves in was a mess but I found the way they dealt with it really beautiful. There was a lot of pain, guilt and regret but also love and friendship and family. There was a sense of rightness when Kieran and Jordan were together.
I liked this book much more than I expected to. I'm a huge fan of R.J. Scott's work, but I'd never had any interest to read this one. I'm not sure why, but the blurb had put me off a little because it sounded far too angsty and sad. But then a friend told me to read it, and I'm SO glad she did. It was a lovely read, and it was sad like I had expected but it was also rather beautiful. I fell in love with Kieran and Jordan, and my heart broke for Brad. He had been so damaged and insecure, and I go...more
Jordan Salter has been running Addison Construction for two years now since the death of his partner, Brad Addison. The Addison's embraced Jordan as family and moved him into an apartment above the garage. Trouble is stirred up when Jordan is accidentally injured and Kieran Addison returns from England where he'd been living. Kieran has been in love with Jordan since he was sixteen. Can Kieran and Jordan find love with the angst and guilt each man feels? You can count on it with Ms Scott's uniq...more
Written in 3rd person POV from both Kieran and Jordan's perspective, Back Home is an emotionally satisfying read, without being overwhelming or overly dramatic. The revelation of what has happened between Kieran and Jordan, on the six years they were apart (including the last two years after Kieran's brother/Jordan's lover, Brad, died), are flowing in perfect pace ... not too fast but not too slow. In each chapter there are trails for readers to be invested with their story, their internal emoti...more
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I am in awe that people read my writing and thank you all for taking the time to read, rate and review. Rj xxxxx
About me...I live in the UK just outside London and most of my written work is published with Silver Publishing. I love reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror; however, my first real love will always be the world of romance. My go...more
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I am in awe that people read my writing and thank you all for taking the time to read, rate and review. Rj xxxxx
About me...I live in the UK just outside London and most of my written work is published with Silver Publishing. I love reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror; however, my first real love will always be the world of romance. My go...more
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