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Mile High (Men in Motion #1)

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Divorced accountant Owen Braydon spends his weeks working in Los Angeles and his weekends in Denver with his daughter. Straight-laced and mild mannered, he normally looks at the weekly flight to and from Denver as an opportunity to get some extra work done. But then he found himself on the same plane as the luscious Taylor Madison. Texas-born Taylor is from Denver, but for...more

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Published July 2008 by Linden Bay Romance

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Oct 31, 2012 Charly rated it 3 of 5 stars

A decent read, but not among the best in the genre

Rating: 6/10

Pros:
- Funny, light-hearted dialogue.
- The relationship is the first gay experience for one of the men, but the text establishes him as (at least) bisexual from the start. Thus, I found it more believable that he would throw himself into the relationship than I would have if he were described as strictly “straight.”
- Cute/funny/realistic nervousness on the part of the bi guy. (SPOILER here) I laughed out loud when he said “holy crap...more A decent read, but not among the best in the genre

Rating: 6/10

Pros:
- Funny, light-hearted dialogue.
- The relationship is the first gay experience for one of the men, but the text establishes him as (at least) bisexual from the start. Thus, I found it more believable that he would throw himself into the relationship than I would have if he were described as strictly “straight.”
- Cute/funny/realistic nervousness on the part of the bi guy. (SPOILER here) I laughed out loud when he said “holy crap” right before they kiss for the first time. (see cons list also)
- I liked the coincidence of the guys repeatedly running into each other. The romantic in me couldn’t help smiling at Fate bringing the two of them together…again and again.
- Sappy, happily-ever-after, blah blah blah resolution. Loved it.

Cons:
- The book launches right into the sex, which I couldn’t help raising an eyebrow at. Maybe 2 strangers (one of whom is a gay sex virgin) really would have sex an hour after having first looked at each other (though it’s never happened in my real world), but the fact that they do it on an airplane somehow added an element of unbelievability that pushed the whole premise over the top for me. Gay sex = taboo in current society. Airplane sex = taboo in addition to being against the rules (and possibly against the law?). First time + gay sex + airplane? Hmm.
- The sex was a little…strange to me for some reason. For one thing, there’s no description of pain when one of the guys bottoms for the first time. It’s just heavenly. Okay. But the oddest thing about the sex is that there’s quite a bit of it (so it’s a major part of the story), but it’s not all that graphic. The characters’ dialogue about sex is much more frank at times than the descriptions of the sex itself.
- Female character who starts out seeming to be the Devil Herself but turns out well. Not quite believable how quickly she 180s, but admittedly, I still liked it.

Overall comments: A good read if you’re just getting into the genre. This was one of the first 5 m/m romances I read—I’m writing this review about 3 months after having read it the first time—and I liked it really well back then. Having read some others, though, that are SO good, this one sort of pales in comparison.(less)

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Apr 12, 2012 Cindi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, m-m, series

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. While I really liked this story (obviously or I wouldn't give it 4 stars) there are a few things I had issues with.

1. Owen has never been with a man before and he has sex with Taylor in the bathroom on the plane. Hmm.. no prep? At all? Ever? Even when they do it in a real bed?

2. Owen is too shy to discuss his feelings with Taylor but yet in the bedroom he isn't shy at all. Leather? Chaps? A freakin' collar? Remember... Taylor is the only man he's ever been with.

3. Jenna the ex and staying with h...more While I really liked this story (obviously or I wouldn't give it 4 stars) there are a few things I had issues with.

1. Owen has never been with a man before and he has sex with Taylor in the bathroom on the plane. Hmm.. no prep? At all? Ever? Even when they do it in a real bed?

2. Owen is too shy to discuss his feelings with Taylor but yet in the bedroom he isn't shy at all. Leather? Chaps? A freakin' collar? Remember... Taylor is the only man he's ever been with.

3. Jenna the ex and staying with her and their daughter. Owen had to hide to place a phone call to Taylor and then was having to dial his own phone number afterward to keep Jenna from hitting redial to see who he was talking to because he was using her home phone. Well, it's obvious that Owen has a cell phone as it is mentioned many times throughout the book about how he and his daughter text back and forth. So calling Taylor on his cell was out of the question? And seriously... what business is it of his ex wife? They've been divorced for a year. Jenna came across as a total controlling bitch but yet when Owen comes out to her she's pretty much okay with it? She's a total witch about everything else but it's just dandy that Owen is in love with a man?

4. The story seemed a little rushed. I love how Taylor and Owen met at the airport. I enjoyed watching them finally come together as a couple. BUT.... the back and forth to the bathroom (each time they flew) seemed to be a bit much. Not a whole lot of communication between the two unless it was in regards to getting each other off.

5. This is my biggest peeve with this book........... Owen's fantasies. They got old and quite annoying pretty fast. I wanted to skip over them but I didn't.

I really did like everything else about the book. It was a nice love story and it was pretty cool how they met and got together. I know this is the first in a series so I am going keep reading and hope to see Taylor and Owen in future books. I want to see where they go from here.(less)

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May 09, 2010 Felicia (Ferishia) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, lgbt-romance, kindle-ebook, m-m, erotica, ebook, series, 01-mr-candy-pants, fav-author, 2010-amz-purchases

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Nov 16, 2011 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars

What could be better than joining the Mile-High-Club and finding the love of your life?

A divorced accountant Owen is traveling to see his daughter when he sees Taylor at the airport. He can't keep his eyes off him and doesn't understand why since he is "straight". His mind is totall consumed with Taylor and when Taylor moves from his seat to sit next to Owen, all bets are off.

Taylor thinks at first he got the wrong impression of Owen but 15 minutes later they are in the small bathroom giving eac...more

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Apr 30, 2009 Elisa Ramblings added it

Owen is a wealthy divorced business man. Every week he travels from Los Angeles to Denver to visit his daughter who lives with her mother. To please the kid, he spends all the weekend sleeping in the couch in the den of his ex wife. Is not a wonderful life, but Owen loves his daughter, and then he has no one at home for him. Actually he haven't never realized for sure why his wife asked for a divorce: he was not an oppressive husband, he left her all the freedom she needed, and if she cheated on...more Owen is a wealthy divorced business man. Every week he travels from Los Angeles to Denver to visit his daughter who lives with her mother. To please the kid, he spends all the weekend sleeping in the couch in the den of his ex wife. Is not a wonderful life, but Owen loves his daughter, and then he has no one at home for him. Actually he haven't never realized for sure why his wife asked for a divorce: he was not an oppressive husband, he left her all the freedom she needed, and if she cheated on him, he didn't want to know, and maybe never mattered much. Owen has always considered himself straight, but he sometime finds himself ogling on some explicit advertisement with a beautiful specimen on it, and he has always had a particular fondness for movies with handsome men in it rather than action. All right Owen is not a macho man, and then he doesn't consider himself the type to attract the type of guy he finds attractive: at almost forty years old, maybe he has resigned to be alone with only his dreams to take him company in the night.

But during one of his flights, he catches eyes with Taylor, a very stud of man, exactly every his desires come true. Taylor is a construction project manager from Denver who travels every week on a construction site on Los Angeles. And also for Taylor, Owen is a dream comes true: Taylor is tired to be alone, to have always to travel around the country and not ever have the chance to settle down with a fine man. A fine man like Owen, shy and gentle, with a steady work and a regular life. And so Taylor seduces Owen on the plane, the very first time they meet, and continues to do so for all the other planes they share in the week after, till the time Owen is hooked and ready to be served on a silver plate to Taylor. They only have to find a place where stay together that is not a plane in air...

As always, G.A. Hauser's characters are outrageous and funny, totally sexually driven and happy to be. Luckily they have also the chance to be, since they are among that very important people who can pursue their dreams, since money and obligations seem not important.

This is almost a two men show, since almost all the book is spent following Taylor and Owen on their travels, and only Owen's daughter and ex wife make some appearances. In particular Owen's ex wife, Jenna, makes a pretty interesting evolution journey, from witch to angel: till when she is the ex wife with all the power in her hands, she is evil like a perfect ex wife should be, but when she realizes that her marriage could have failed not for her fault, but maybe since her husband was searching something she obviously couldn't give him, in that moment she turns in an angel and in the best friend of her ex. Still at first the author was not very gentle with this character, and truth be told, Owen was not behaving like a god daddy should do, having his head more on when he would be again with his lover, than on what he should do with his daughter. But again, G.A. Hauser's characters are not notorious to be the perfect hero from fairy tales...

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Feb 09, 2012 Claudia rated it 3 of 5 stars

It was a nice story, but I was a little disappointed with how it was developed. There was a chemistry between Owen and Taylor, but it felt just rushed. I wish there had been a little drama to spice it up. I really loved 'The wedding planner' and I loved how it was written and maybe I just had high expectations with 'Mile High'. Have a go, you might end up really enjoying it.

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Apr 10, 2011 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

I love the development between the two characters. It was lust at first sight for both and the sex between them is hot of course, but their growing emotional intimacy during the course of the story makes this book one of my personal favourites from the author.

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Apr 03, 2013 Samantha rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: april-2013, hauser, mm-romance, series, 5-s, fun-light-read, great-books, great-quick-read, reading-it-again, would-read-again, the-best

I loved this sweet story about Owen and Taylor and their love which starts in the toilet on board a plane.

Funny dialogue and no real angst.

5*s

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Nov 01, 2012 James rated it 5 of 5 stars

I am a sucker for romance... G.A. hits it out of the park once again!!! I am now reading, and almost finished with book 2 of this series.

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Feb 24, 2012 Kay rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This story is about a man who is coming to terms not only with his recent divorce and separation from his daughter, but also with his sexuality. For a while Owen has had feelings of attraction to other men but has been afraid to act on them. In his 30’s, he’s feeling out of his element; that is until he meets Taylor who is willing to take it one step at a time. When their relationship deepens to more than a casual affair, both men must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to be together. Ow...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Live Read and Breathe Reviews rated it 4 of 5 stars

3.5 to 4 *
quick fun story with good banter and lots of love.

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Feb 12, 2009 Pat Cromwell rated it 4 of 5 stars

The absolute best GA Hauser has written.

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Nov 09, 2010 Wendy (wluvsbooks) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sex-partner-mm, theme-gfy, career-businessman, app-kindle, series, loaned

This was a relatively short and pleasant read. There was a bit of angst due to the guys making incorrect assumptions, lack of communication and family pressures, but surprisingly, not a lot with respect to Owen getting together with another man (Taylor) for the very first time (and in the bathroom of a plane no less!). Sometimes the antics carried out by the guys and dialogue made them seem younger than they were, but it just contributed to the sense of adventure and playfulness that was central...more

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Feb 28, 2012 Alina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Fun story, so hilarious at times! :)))
Sure misunderstandings between MCs pissed me and I just wanted to scream: talk to each other, morons! But things resolved relatively fast, so it's all good. Glad to see Jenna's not a complete bitch and Taylor's dad turned out to be a decent guy too (kinda reminded me of Michael's dad in To Held and Hostage).

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Sep 07, 2008 Alyssa Blaine B rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008, m-m, really-bad-reads, e-books

Really negative female and gay male stereotype being played out over and over again kind of ruined the smut for me.

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About the Author Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time...more

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