Heart Trouble in Q&A with Josh Lanyon

Oct 06, 2012 Mandy*reads obsessively* rated it really liked it

Shelves: m-m, ebook-owned, sweet, hurt-comfort-disability, short, doctor-nurse-emt, age-gap, way-too-short

3.5*
This is a very short story, it starts with Ford in the ER being examined by Dr Jacob Hoyle.
Ford thinks he is having a heart attack , the Dr examines him and asks all kinds of questions, that's how we get to know Ford, his age, his family and financial situation, his fear, and it is also told from his POV, unfortunately except for showing that Jacob is extraordinarily kind we know next to nothing about him.
And that was a bit of a problem for me, I liked Ford,but why did Jacob like him, what ...more

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Oct 06, 2012 Anna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, amazing, 5-stars, favourites, smokin-hot-guys, comfort-reads, short-less-than-100-pages, mm-seriously-adorable, mm-paramedic-doctors-etc, everyone-should-read-it

God, why, oh why is this so short? I want more!! I completely fell under the charm on this 21 pages long story. Authors who write characters that are doctors, take note - this is how they should be written; caring, gentle. I've read some books where the doctors were really creepy, and I hate that. Jacob was perfect.

I'd sell my left arm to read more about these two. It was so so sweet!

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Oct 06, 2013 Deanna rated it really liked it

Shelves: grabs-my-heart, fav-authors, romance-contempory, m-m, short-story, want-more

Josh Lanyon writes true short stories. They do not have that usual feel of a abstract of a larger story to be written at a later date. This was a complete and beautiful story. There was a promise of more for the 2 MCs but for the readers it was complete. Of course it would be nice to visit the MCs again to see how their life is going.

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Mar 08, 2014 Paola rated it it was amazing

Shelves: story-publ-d-in-s-author-antho-too, owned-as-ebook, story-owned-in-s-author-antho-too, favourite, owned-as-print

A perfect example of "less is more", one of the many reasons why I love Josh Lanyon's writing. So many emotions are captured in this very short story (and early writing effort, according to the author's note). A thoughtful, heart-warming, sweet but not sugary-sweet tale of a chance encounter between two guys whose humanity, whose fears and hopes are sensitively drawn, without sounding forced or clichéd. First read in the excellent