Pick Up the Pieces (The Light in Your Eye #1) in Spy Vs. Spook series Mark & Quinn

Jun 06, 2013 Trisha Harrington rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: loved, abused-characters, online, this-is-what-i-call-true-love, tinnean

I loved this. Most people who love Spy Vs. Spook will know the characters. I wasn't expecting to love this as much as I did. It was definitely sweeter than I had expected.

Highly recommend it! ...more

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Jan 26, 2014 Bookwatcher rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, glbt-gay

Oh... I'm sooooooooooo curious and need to read more! This is the first book of a series I certainly will read more!

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Pick up the pieces is a spinoff of a spy series, called Spy Vs Spook. It's a standalone, you don't need to read Spy vs Spook to understand it!
It may help you, to know what is this mysterious job Wills have, and who is his mysterious boss, Mark (SQUEEEEEE... hummm, sorry, fan *squee* scream was unnecessary.. I know, but I love Mark!). So as I was sayi ...more

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Feb 02, 2014 Gina rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary, m-m, crime, cops-fbi-undercover, rent-boy

This was a winner!! I love the Spy V Spook series, and getting to know these characters from that series is just as fun! This book is about Theo and William. You don’t have to read Spy V Spook series first, but if you love this one you have to read that series!

When Theo comes out to his family his father throws him out and tells him never to come back. A fifteen year old boy on the streets doesn’t have many options, so circumstances force Theo to become “sweet cheeks” a rent boy. So the story ta ...more

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Apr 24, 2014 Roberta rated it it was amazing

I have ALWAYS LOVED the Spy vs Spook novels and I was very interested in Sweetcheeks/Theo and Matheson/Wills relationship. I really enjoyed seeing the relationship take it's time in getting started.

I loved getting a better feel for Theo and what his life had been like. It was nice to see that even though he had become successful in his trade, that he was able to find love and a great relationship.

I liked getting to know Wills better and really seeing who he was as a person and what would make hi ...more

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Feb 19, 2014 Ivka_s_knihou rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cops

I'm not a big fun of rentboy stories. A lot of people know that. But I have to read the first story about Wills and Theo, because this is Tinnean we're talking about. And most important part - this is Spy vs. Spook universe. And I can visit Mark and I can see more of Matheson. And I love it. Just because of these reasons.

I didn't know how much I missed this universe until I opened this book and it was like coming home, like all the bad things ceased to exist. I'm not a big fan of Theo, I think h ...more

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Nov 11, 2016 Asynia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mm-romance, team-scavenger-hunt-2016, 2017-tbr

I lovedthis book! I loved every single part of it, especially the MCs, Theo and Wills! As I thought that this book ended in a pretty satisfying way, I’m kind of apprehensive about the fact that there is a second book about Theo and Wills, and I hope that the author doesn’t throw too much trouble their way.

Theo is a rent boy since the age of 15, and even though this is bad, it’s not as bad as it could have been. He’s never done drugs and apart from the first six months he’s had a fairly good life I lovedthis book! I loved every single part of it, especially the MCs, Theo and Wills! As I thought that this book ended in a pretty satisfying way, I’m kind of apprehensive about the fact that there is a second book about Theo and Wills, and I hope that the author doesn’t throw too much trouble their way.

Theo is a rent boy since the age of 15, and even though this is bad, it’s not as bad as it could have been. He’s never done drugs and apart from the first six months he’s had a fairly good life, considering how it could have been. He met with a group of rent boys who support each other and are friends and they are fairly safe, especially financially and in their friendships with each other.

Wills works with Mark Vincent from the Spy vs. Spook series, but he’s not nearly as intense as I remember Mark being. Then again, it was three years since I read the Spy vs. Spook series and as this book takes part during the first book in that series, Houseboat on the Nile, it does in fact involve a lot of the stuff that happens in Houseboat on the Nile, so I feel that I urgently have to re-read that one. I probably have to re-read the whole series, as I’m assuming that the next book about Theo and Wills will take place during the second book of the Spy vs. Spook series.

Mark Vincent was once a tenant at the house owned by Theo and his rent boy friends and this sets events in motion that brings and Mark back into Theo’s life and Wills comes with him as a bonus. Wills is slightly bordering on too good to be true. He readily accepts that Theo’s been a rent boy, something Theo gives up when he falls for Wills and they start getting involved, and he also seems relatively problem free. He has a family that loves him no matter what and he seems pretty well adjusted all around. He has no problems at all falling for Theo and imagining a future with him.

The problems that Theo has in the first part of this book, regarding being thrown out by his father at age 15 for being gay and his way of life after that, are well written and feels real to me. That things work out so fairly stress free between Theo and Wills is easy for me to accept and like I’ve already said, I wish them all the best. What I missed a little in this book compared to the Spy vs. Spook series is multiple POVs. We only get Theo’s POV in this book and I would have liked to have a peek inside Wills head. But maybe I’ll get that in the next book, because I’m most definitely going to read that one soon! ...more

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Mar 02, 2014 Jack rated it it was amazing

Just got the chance to read "Pick up the Pieces" and as usual I loved it (as I do all of Tinneans books).

This is a side story to the Spy vs Spook series running in the same timeline dealing with Theo a young runaway who becomes a rent boy and with Wills who is Mark Vincent's protege. The story explains how Theo meets Mark Vincent and because of this meets Wills.

Parts of this book touch on things that happen in the Spy vs Spook series, but this can be read as as a stand alone book, you don't ne ...more

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