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Frog

by Mary Calmes (Goodreads Author)

4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 · rating details · 1,630 ratings · 280 reviews

Weber Yates's dreams of stardom are about to be reduced to a ranch hand's job in Texas, and his one relationship is with a guy so far out of his league he might as well be on the moon. Or at least in San Francisco, where Weber stops to see him one last time before settling down to the humble, lonely life he figures a frog like him has coming. Cyrus Benning is a successful...more

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Published April 25th 2012 by Dreamspinner Press

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Apr 28, 2012 ♥Laddie♥ rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Seriously, everyone who loves some sweetness!!

Shelves: awesome-just-awesome, comfort-read, doctor-hero, mm, mm-cowboys, mm-loved-it, mm-too-cute, mm-with-kiddies, rainbows-and-sunshine, too-cute, too-sexy

Can I Fall In Love With A Book? You Bet Your Sweet Ass I Can!!

Of all the cute, sexy, awesome books I've been reading lately Frog takes the cake. Not only does it take the cake but it takes the cake, body slams all of the other books and stands on top of them yelling "I'M KING OF THE WOOOOOOOOOORLD!!!".

Web is a cowboy and an amateur bull rider at the end of his career. He's 44, homeless and has forty-two dollars to his name. The one sunshiney bright spot in his life is the brilliant neurosurgeon,...more

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Oct 07, 2012 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-lendable

I could read this book 10 times in a row and not get sick of it...the smile would NEVER leave my face!

This was such a sweet, endearing, pleasant, heartwarming, tender, adorable, story. How can you go wrong with a cowboy and a doctor? How can you miss with 2 guys loving each other so dearly? How can you not love a family that supports their gay son and loves his partner?

Weber Yates: Cowboy. 6'3", 170'ish lbs. Ginger. Great with kids, dogs, parents, and a man of respect and manners. Slightly unsu...more

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May 14, 2013 Sheri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: boyz-luvin-boyz, luv-2-reread, flufftacular, obsessed, fave

Comfort read. Perfect gentlemen. Endearing pair.

Everyone has a favorite food that makes them feel better no matter the day, a reliable security blanket of happiness. I believe I have found my go-to ‘pick me up’ author. This is definitely a mood type of story. If you are need of a beaming smile and a happy heart, this is the book for you.

Cyrus is swept off his city shoes by an elusive cowboy from the moment their eyes locked. He gives this rodeo wanna-be star a glimpse of the man he aches to be,...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Ingela rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-m-m, short-novel, a-cozy-favorite, in-my-kindle

A wonderful story about longing, belonging, becoming a family and a mountain - 4,5 Cuddly Stars

~ It's simply awesome, got everything a romantic girl like me need in a good contemporary romance book. ~

Now, almost one day after I finished this book, is Weber's and Cyrus's history left in me as strong as when I was in the middle of reading the book. Actually, probably this novel can be seen as quite simple and a little too "sugar sweet" for some readers. We meet cute little children, accepting rela...more

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Mar 02, 2013 Breann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Breann by: Laura

Shelves: borrowed, contemporary-romance, m-m, 2013-rrrc-challenge, light-and-sweet, gang-bang-read

Well, gosh darn it! That might be the sweetest thing I've ever read. These two men who've loved each other for years, finally finding a way to make a life with each other. What's better than that?

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May 01, 2012 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, awesome-couples, comfort-reads, desert-island-keeper, mm-seriously-adorable, 4-and-a-half-stars

4.5.. I loved this book, Web and Cy were so sweet !

I liked both MCs, I liked the kids (and I'm usually not crazy about books with kids in them), I liked everything! I'm usually not the biggest fan of Mary Calmes's books; I've read two and they were just ok for me... but Frog was great! I did find myself a little bit annoyed with Web's stubbornness, and I wish there was more backstory for both MCs and their relationship, but other than that there's nothing that bothered me with this book; it's ju...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Cris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, forever-love, favorites, beyond-5-stars, romance

I was not expecting this book. I usually enjoy Mary Calmes' books, but this was just wonderful, truly wonderful. I've tried three times to write an actual review, but I'm giving up - this book was all about feelings and I just don't have the words. This book made my heart ache and expand and nearly burst with all of the feelings that just rolled off of the page from the characters.

It was a lovely, touching book and I'll be reading this one over and over and over again.

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Nov 27, 2012 Lenore rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, rec-by-gr-friend, fluffy-mcflufferson, pub-dreamspinner, cowboys, hh-doctor-nurse-life-sciences, hh-aged-40-plus, 2012, craptastic, kill-me-now, major-roll-eye-moments, put-me-out-of-my-misery, reviewed-by-yours-truly, too-sappy

I won't review this.

All I'll say is that it should have ended at around 70%. It would still have been 99% sugar fluff, but it wouldn't have taken that sharp turn straight down to sugar-coma-ville.

It's one star for the book and one star for my dear friend, Susan, who recommended it to me. You tried, love. That's what counts! Plus, it worked. My brain has been effectively numbed.

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Apr 06, 2013 Dallison rated it 5 of 5 stars

Mary Calmes is my hero. I LOVED THIS BOOK. Weber was a strong mountain of a man, who knew what family values was all about. All of the characters in this book were great. Cy was such a great guy also, and his parents, sister and nephews were fantastic. I really highly recommned this book. What a great love story with 2 strong characters. If you don't have this book, run... don't walk your little fingers to the ebook store and get it ASAP.

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Apr 28, 2012 Veronica / V rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm scare to read this Author, I have a love hate relationship about her books.

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FANTASTIC!!! I loved everything about it and I forgive the part with "no lube"
Great just great!!!

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May 20, 2013 DaisyGirl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, genre-romance, i-own, other-made_me_cry, other-steamy, romance-contemp

5.0 Stars

Hot damn I LOVED this story! I gotta tell ya, I didn’t know what to expect from a book titled “Frog” but boy was I pleasantly surprised. Weber is a bull rider who didn’t make it into the big leagues. At 45, he thinks it’s time to quit the biz and settle down as a ranch hand or cowboy. Cyrus is a San Francisco neurosurgeon who loves Weber and wants to build a life with him. Weber loves Cyrus and sees him whenever he’s passing through the area. Although he would like nothing more than to...more

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May 05, 2012 Sungrave rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: eyeroll

Besides the doctor, who has absolutely no personality (and who spent most of the book with his ass ready in the air), there are also lots of long, long repetitious dialogues about "how I love you more than you think you deserve and how you think I can do better." I really didn't like the scene in the beginning. If you are so obsessed with the man, if you really missed him that much, why waste time talking on the phone? Especially since it's cold and raining! Go get him!
The talking could wait unt...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Arthur rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: like-listening-to-romance-d-amour, reading-calmes-calms-me

4.5 stars

Cyrus, 42, was a handsome, wealthy San Francisco neurosurgeon. Weber, 44, was a former rodeo who was on the way to Alaska, ready to work as ranch hand. They had an on/off relationship for the past three years. Whatever time they spent together always ended the same way: Weber wanted to make himself in rodeo world and didn't want to stay in San Francisco, no matter how hard Cyrus tried to convince him. But this year was different because Weber decided that he was too old for rodeo so he...more 4.5 stars

Cyrus, 42, was a handsome, wealthy San Francisco neurosurgeon. Weber, 44, was a former rodeo who was on the way to Alaska, ready to work as ranch hand. They had an on/off relationship for the past three years. Whatever time they spent together always ended the same way: Weber wanted to make himself in rodeo world and didn't want to stay in San Francisco, no matter how hard Cyrus tried to convince him. But this year was different because Weber decided that he was too old for rodeo so he retired.

When Weber called Cyrus to tell him that he's in California on the way to Alaska, Cyrus simply couldn't let him go again. Weber knew he loved Cyrus, but he was afraid that the other man loved the idea of cowboy, not of Weber the man. After all, he was simply a drifter, homeless ex bull rider. Nothing compared to Cyrus. But, when Caroline, Cyrus' sister made a request he couldn't resist, Weber had to think harder.

I liked reading this book despite it's a bit formulaic of Ms. Calmes' style and plot (hence the missing 0.5 stars). Indeed, this book bears many Mary Calmes' signatures:
- opening scene with a stubborn character is ready to bolt and the other person has to convince him not to
- a good looking guy whom everybody wants
- a structured chaos with rapid back and forth dialogues
- an insecure MC who's very good at something

Now, about the title. The popular version of the Frog fairy tale is that a princess lost her golden ball in the pond. A frog brought it to her, and she kissed him as a reward (wow, talking about introducing kids to bestiality!) Of course, the frog turned out to be a handsome prince, who was cursed. The way I see it, the relationship between the princess and the frog is purely transactional: the kiss is a reward to what he did (some version talk about 'pure love', but surely it's not the case here). The messages, I think, are:
(1) the princess didn't hesitate to lower herself by kissing a disgusting creature. (Although according to wikipedia, the earlier version of the story she actually threw the frog to the wall which coincidentally broke the curse).
(2) the golden ball is very very important to the princess that she's willing to kiss the frog.

Back to the book. The wealthy Cy doesn't mind to associate himself with the poor Weber, despite some people's view toward the near homeless guy. In fact, for Cy, being with Weber is his golden ball, without which he cannot reach his complete happiness. Weber, however, doesn't realize that he is Cy's golden ball (and there's no discussion about his balls either). He's a person, who mistakenly believes that Cy wants something else from him, something he cannot offer. The whole book, in fact, is on this front: how to convince Weber that he is both Cy's golden ball and prince, two in one. Not the frog he believes he is.

With 40 something men who are ready to settle, cute boys, supporting family, and a wealthy love-interest rival, the book is just completely amazing.(less)

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Apr 25, 2012 Kinny rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm

The men in this story are middle aged. Cyril, the neurosurgeon, is 42 and the drifter orphaned unemployed cowboy Weber is 44. Weber was dealt a tough break in life. Everyone he cared about died on him and he was on his own at 18 when his beloved brother died in Iraq.

Cy and Web met during one of Web's odd jobs and Cy's vacation. Whereas Cy figured out that Web is what has been missing in his life, Web understandably feels that Cy deserves better than a poor homeless failure and that if Cy decides...more

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Apr 27, 2012 oceankitty rated it 2 of 5 stars

2.5 stars.

I'm a bit disappointed really. It started so well and then just drowned in "Mary Calmes Balm". It's all there, her signature ingredients: The loving and instantly accepting family, the hands-on love aptly demonstrated by a lot of "holding down". Love conquers all in Calmes's books and it's a delight to read that part. But: I had hoped she would progress as a writer and challenge herself a bit. Her main characters are the same in all her books, they just carry different names. I shouldn...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Serena Yates rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m

This is, without a doubt, a special book. Not one with much outward conflict, so I suspect many will dismiss it as not ‘action/adventure’ enough. Thing is though, the entire focus is on the fascinating characters and their battles with inner demons, people’s expectations, and their lover not wanting what they want – or so each thinks. Stories like this are difficult to pull off, but Mary Calmes does it with flair and enough emotional drama that I was breathless throughout most of the book. Man,...more This is, without a doubt, a special book. Not one with much outward conflict, so I suspect many will dismiss it as not ‘action/adventure’ enough. Thing is though, the entire focus is on the fascinating characters and their battles with inner demons, people’s expectations, and their lover not wanting what they want – or so each thinks. Stories like this are difficult to pull off, but Mary Calmes does it with flair and enough emotional drama that I was breathless throughout most of the book. Man, what a ride!

Weber is a former bull rider, desperately in love with Cyrus, not that he will admit this, and the man whose inner battles we follow as the story progresses. He came to life for me like only the best characters ever do: he is proud, stubborn and determined not to give in to what he sees as a weakness: his love for Cyrus. The key question he has to answer before he can settle down is not an easy one to deal with: who is he now that he is too old to participate in rodeos? What makes him the man he is and how can he respect himself if he isn’t able to provide for himself financially? And why does Cyrus even love him?

Cyrus is Weber’s complete opposite. He is a neurosurgeon, emotionally detached (except around Weber), and very wealthy. He loves Weber with every fiber of his being and despairs at getting the man to admit it and come live with him. He desperately needs Weber, but has no idea how to convince him of this fact. Luckily, he is as stubborn as Weber and his determination and persistence serve him well.

I loved reading about these two, even though I was ready to smack Weber upside the head a few times so he’d see what’s what. He was so believably absorbed in his own issues that I couldn’t even blame him for being obtuse – it just took him a while to figure out that the values he had been told, the role he’d learned to play was not really going to serve him well in the second half of his life. In many ways this is a coming of age story, even though it takes place when most people have a midlife crisis (Weber is 44). The moment when he final does ‘see the light’ was beautifully emotional and made me ridiculously happy. I had grown so attached to him that I was truly relieved he’d finally gotten the message.

If you like character-driven stories, heroes that drive you up the wall but at the same time make you pray they figure it out, and if you enjoy reading about hot men battling it out between the sheets as well as in daily life, you will probably like this book. I totally adored it!

NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on QMO Books.(less)

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Apr 29, 2012 MandyM rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m-romance

Didn't really like this one at all. The doctor (I've already forgotten his name and I only just put the book down) is a colourless character and only exists to emphasize the seemingly supernatural attraction of the cowboy Weber. The situation where they all lived happily ever after with the sister and her kids and how the sister made Weber the guardian of her little children (totally bypassing her brother BTW) was completely unbelievable. The romance between Weber and the doctor was almost overw...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Bettina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I loved this story!

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Apr 20, 2013 Pam rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, m-m-romance

I had to read this gem again. And I stand by my below review. Take a chance on the story of Cyrus and Weber. You won't be sorry you did.

Ms. Calmes has done it again. I loved this story from the first page to the last. It's a heart-warming character-driven story filled with love and redemption as homeless Weber discovers just how valuable he is to the ones who love him. I admit there were times I wanted to club the man for being dense...that he couldn't see how important he was to Cyrus and what...more

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Apr 26, 2012 Lauraadriana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kids, lmao, cried-like-a-baby, favorites, loved-it, love-conquers-all, m-m, love-them-cowboys, should-be-read-by-all, tina-wants-to-make-me-cry

4.5 Stars LOVED this book and I usually don't gel well with Mary Calmes books, but Web and Cy had me from the get go a d did not let go. Will write better review in a bit. But yeah it was almost a fairy tale and soooo lovely.

Hurrah for fucking AWESOME reading week!

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Mar 12, 2013 Bree Cheese rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, m-m, contemporary

Very sweet romance between two men, one a successful neurosurgeon, the other a prideful out of work rancher/bull rider. Really enjoyed the emotional connection and development of the characters. Recommended for anyone looking for something sweet.

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May 27, 2012 Gwenith rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: lovable-re-reads, favorites

Super Sweet Book!

This picture reminds me of Cyrus♥Web.

Gosh, this book was written adorably!

The Book is a classic Mary Calmes , it has lovable adorable characters that are great when I want a snuggle up drink some tea, curl your toes warm book and today this fit my mood perfectly...I smiled from beginning to end~

Re~read 3/2013 and it was 5 Star Fab❤

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Dec 26, 2012 Shelley rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m-romance, whoa-steamy, aww-so-sweet

Lovely little romance, so sugary sweet it might hurt.

Easy reading for when you fancy something a little frivolous and sexy. This is most certainly a mood book, it's easy hot loving with a sweet sexy cowboy and a neurosurgeon.

Weber is a great guy, complete with good old fashioned manners, a kiddie magnet and everybody loves him, especially Cyrus. But Weber's not too sharp and has a few issues understanding why a guy like Cyrus would want a nobody like him.

Cyrus is an exceptional surgeon. Drive...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Phaney rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Phaney by: Kelly Maybedog Hawkins

Shelves: m-m

I am a lil depressed these days, so I tried to cheer myself up with something I expected to be safe. It worked (temporarily).

Going on precedence I attempted to read this not as a romance. However, that proved tough to uphold when the sex was thrown at me so, uh, vigorously.

For some reason this felt like a really fast, short story, and it’s not subtle, not even a little. Then again, it seems as though it doesn’t need to be. And whatever else I might complain about, the narrative held my attention...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Trix rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, angst, cowboy, doctor, mm-novels

This is like Acrobat all over again.

(view spoiler)...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Stephanie M. rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: mary-calmes, favorites, 2012

I loved this story immensely! I really enjoyed watching how Weber finally got what it meant to be respected as man. It's not how much money you make or having a successful career, or being able to support oneself w/o help even if it means living in poverty or being homeless. It's being able to be counted on when needed, sacrificing one's own wants/need for others who are more in need; showing vulnerability by communicating & expressing feelings instead of running away when things get too emo...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Candice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: angst-free, children, feel-good-read, sweet

I really enjoyed this book. I liked both Web and Cy and loved how Web became such a large part of everyone's life just by being around. If you are in the mood for a sweet, feel good love story, then this book is a good choice.

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Aug 27, 2012 Camille rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m-rom-erotica

Oh! You can see the formula behind it. You know, thus, that you shouldn't love it like you do. But...you do. Love this story that is. This story of bravery before love. One strong enough to confess his need, the other evolving enough to accept that love exists outside all human parameters - money, class, occupation etc. And this is why, with how many ever other issues this book contains, you'll love it. Because it presents that truth of love, that we all know conceptually and yearn to experience...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Super romance. I usually dont care for cowboy romances because it's usually such an unrealistic portrayal. This was realistic and more beautiful because of it. And the sex was fricken amazing.

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Oct 08, 2012 deirdre rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: m-m, romance, lendable-nook

what fun!!
great light sweet contemporary . . .
guaranteed to put a smile on your face

what i liked . . .
heck, i must have liked it as i have read it cover to cover TWICE in 18 hours
fun characters. good character development, especially the MC.
nice story line.
nice extended family interaction. this is not an m/m where one comes to terms with their own sexuality or comes out to family . . . just a sweet romance.

what didn't work for me . . .
using kids to manipulate adults. there is a supposed shri...more

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Mary Calmes lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and two children and loves all the seasons except summer. She graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, with a bachelor's degree in English literature. Due to the fact that it is English lit and not English grammar, do not ask her to point out a clause for you, as it will so not happen. She loves writing, becomi...more

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