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Dance With Me (Dancing, #1)

Heidi Cullinan

Start date: August 1, 2011

Finish date: August 31, 2011

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Aug 18, 2011 Ami rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-and-half-stars_rating, mm-contemporary, mm-romance-or-erotica

4.5 stars
I have never read anything by Ms. Cullinan before; her other stories' blurbs did not appeal to me. However, this one does. I like stories about dancers. I like to watch movies about dance. I still remember one ballet movie starring Mikhail Baryshnikov. "Fame" was one show, whose episodes I never missed (love Debbie Allen's choreography).

This one is short of PERFECT and touches me in all the right places. First, the opposite attract. They come from two different spectrum in life. Ed is a 4.5 stars
I have never read anything by Ms. Cullinan before; her other stories' blurbs did not appeal to me. However, this one does. I like stories about dancers. I like to watch movies about dance. I still remember one ballet movie starring Mikhail Baryshnikov. "Fame" was one show, whose episodes I never missed (love Debbie Allen's choreography).

This one is short of PERFECT and touches me in all the right places. First, the opposite attract. They come from two different spectrum in life. Ed is a blue collar class and Laurie is from the rich class. Second, the progress of the story. How the two men starts from hating each other, having a cliché perception about the other (Ed is an ex-football player, Laurie is a dancer), then they learn that they actually having more things in common (other than how dancing makes them feel good), and they grow together because of that. THAT is a beauty of a story, where characters develop, that when the ending comes, both Ed and Laurie are not the same two men in the beginning. They are better because they find themselves in their love.

There are so many things I love here, that makes me smile (Ed is NOT a good drunk *lol*), laugh (that one scene where Ed cleans his apartment is just hilarious) and choke up in tears because it's so emotional. I must admit that I love Ed better than Laurie. He is so adorable. He breaks every single perceptions that Laurie has for him. He is so strong and warm, and even if he is bull-headed regarding his disability, he never comes to the point of annoying me. Ed brings Laurie into the light ... and that dance scene on Christmas Day is one that squeezed my heart. Then the ending, oh, the ending, I have my eyes all teary with that. It's perfect, just perfect, a cherry on top of delicious ice cream.

The only niggle that dents the story for me is one scene ((view spoiler)). I know that this shouldn't matter because it's one tiny scene and it shouldn't be that significant to the whole scene but it makes me uncomfortable. I can't just let that one go.

Despite the niggle, this book is one that I love so much. A story of journey between two man ... and a testament of acceptance. When you accept what you are, what you can do, and you have someone who love you for that, ready to do the journey with you, well, you can soar high above the sky ... ...more

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Oct 29, 2011 Susinok rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, contemporary, glbt

Really good. I looked up Argentinian Tango on Youtube and got distracted for half an hour. Nothing like watching men who can really dance.

Loved the book. Two characters who had to work through personal crap before they could be well enough to be together.

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