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The Romantical Adventures of Whit & Eddie #5
Let's Misbehave
Howdy! I'm Eddie Smith and this is the story of my fifth (OMG!) romantical adventure with my newish husband, Whit Hall.
It's Thanksgiving, the day before my birthday (a young 53, thank you very much) and Whit has something up his sleeve.
Turns out, he's decided to surprise me with a trip to La Serena, a quaint seaside town in Chile, where I used to live when I was an exchange student back in the old days of 1982 (two years before Whit was born, as a matter of fact).
I'm... well... I'm not quite as thrilled as he thinks I should be, but I tell him that I'm sure it will all turn out just fine.
What he doesn't know, because it hasn't ever come up, is that La Serena is still the home of my dreaded high school nemesis: Anabela Damjanić.
To say we have some history would be a massive understatement.
What Whit also doesn't know is that Anabela's twin brother, Ramiro, was my first serious crush.
I, um, have sorta stalked him on the socials and he's divorced and looking more handsome than he ever did with those dreamy periwinkle blue eyes and devilish grin.
Well, anyway, I gotta go. Whit's waiting for me.
We're on our way to a party being thrown in my honor and, well, I'm really worried about what might happen...
It's nice that everyone went to so much trouble and late spring by the Pacific on my birthday brings back fond memories, but...
What I really want to do is to go home to Daytona Beach and start looking for a Christmas tree and lights and ornaments and think happy thoughts over hot chocolate...
But I, uh, can't wait to find out what happens next... I think.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 29, 2019
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About the author
Frank W. Butterfield
123 books106 followersFrank W. Butterfield, not an assumed name, loves old movies, wise-cracking smart guys with hearts of gold, and writing for fun.
Although he worships San Francisco, he lives at the beach on another coast.
Born on a windy day in November of 1966, he was elected President of his high school Spanish Club in the spring of 1983.
After moving across these United States like a rapid-fire pinball, he currently makes his home in a hurricane-proof apartment with superior water pressure that was built in 1926.
While he hasn't met any dolphins personally, that invitation is always open.
Although he worships San Francisco, he lives at the beach on another coast.
Born on a windy day in November of 1966, he was elected President of his high school Spanish Club in the spring of 1983.
After moving across these United States like a rapid-fire pinball, he currently makes his home in a hurricane-proof apartment with superior water pressure that was built in 1926.
While he hasn't met any dolphins personally, that invitation is always open.
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January 2, 2020
pub via Patreon: 122 pages
A gloriously silly birthday trip for Eddie in the last few days of November 2019 brings us more or less up to date. Daytona to Chile and back to Texas in three days... almost as much travelling as Nick and Carter. And fun.
A gloriously silly birthday trip for Eddie in the last few days of November 2019 brings us more or less up to date. Daytona to Chile and back to Texas in three days... almost as much travelling as Nick and Carter. And fun.
January 4, 2020
Let’s Misbehave (Whit and Eddie #5)
By Frank W. Butterfield
Published by the author, 2019
Five stars
“Maybe we’re becoming more and more like Nick and Carter.”
“Maybe…”
There was a great payoff in this book, which is why I went the full five stars for it. There are two parallel story lines. The first is a birthday surprise for Eddie, which forces him to confront, emotionally and literally, his experience as an exchange student in Chile during his high school years. The second is an ongoing plot thread related to Whit’s NFL franchise, the San Antonio Matadors, and the local sports stadium. This is where Nick and Eddie have to face the world as an unorthodox couple – an older chubby bear and his young evangelical Christian jock husband. Smoke on that one for a moment. There is not a lot of precedent for this even in the world of gay romance novels.
All of Frank Butterfield’s comforting writing tics are there, as well as his gift for what seems like effortless storytelling. Behind the story, however, it’s always about the boys, and how they have somehow taken on the mantle of Nick and Carter. Nick – and Carter – are not absent, and that is a curiously intriguing motif that will continue to color the mood of these magical realist books. How amazing it would be to confront life armed not only with endless wealth, but with wise voices encouraging you.
In a present-day world that feels more and more as if it’s ruled by rich people flying around in private jets, manipulating things behind all of our backs while we feel increasingly helpless, Butterfield’s fantasies offer us an alternative plot arc. It’s no more realistic than Batman was, but like all the comic book heroes of my childhood, it makes us feel better.
A perfect gift for the new year.
By Frank W. Butterfield
Published by the author, 2019
Five stars
“Maybe we’re becoming more and more like Nick and Carter.”
“Maybe…”
There was a great payoff in this book, which is why I went the full five stars for it. There are two parallel story lines. The first is a birthday surprise for Eddie, which forces him to confront, emotionally and literally, his experience as an exchange student in Chile during his high school years. The second is an ongoing plot thread related to Whit’s NFL franchise, the San Antonio Matadors, and the local sports stadium. This is where Nick and Eddie have to face the world as an unorthodox couple – an older chubby bear and his young evangelical Christian jock husband. Smoke on that one for a moment. There is not a lot of precedent for this even in the world of gay romance novels.
All of Frank Butterfield’s comforting writing tics are there, as well as his gift for what seems like effortless storytelling. Behind the story, however, it’s always about the boys, and how they have somehow taken on the mantle of Nick and Carter. Nick – and Carter – are not absent, and that is a curiously intriguing motif that will continue to color the mood of these magical realist books. How amazing it would be to confront life armed not only with endless wealth, but with wise voices encouraging you.
In a present-day world that feels more and more as if it’s ruled by rich people flying around in private jets, manipulating things behind all of our backs while we feel increasingly helpless, Butterfield’s fantasies offer us an alternative plot arc. It’s no more realistic than Batman was, but like all the comic book heroes of my childhood, it makes us feel better.
A perfect gift for the new year.
January 16, 2020
Another Win
I couldn't stop cheering and smiling the entire time I was reading this book. I am absolutely obsessed with Whit and Eddie and their story keeps getting better and better. This is just the type of story we need right now; sweet, accepting and positive.
I couldn't stop cheering and smiling the entire time I was reading this book. I am absolutely obsessed with Whit and Eddie and their story keeps getting better and better. This is just the type of story we need right now; sweet, accepting and positive.
January 13, 2020
This was last straw.
Very very poor. Much confusion with the use of character’s from the first series of novels. Unfortunately that’s it for this reader. I had enjoyed the first series got through this series as far as here with difficulty but this was the last straw.
Very very poor. Much confusion with the use of character’s from the first series of novels. Unfortunately that’s it for this reader. I had enjoyed the first series got through this series as far as here with difficulty but this was the last straw.
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