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Coming Home: An M/M Contemporary Gay Romance (Finding Shore Book 1) Kindle Edition

4.0 out of 5 stars 425 ratings

When Sam Carlisle was called away to the Navy SEALs, he left behind his family and the man he was falling for. Though he promised he’d come back, he never expected it to be like this: half-dead, bloodied, and terrified to say anything to the man he left behind.

Wes Adams loved his town, his job, his best friend—and his best friend’s brother. But Sam is gone and hasn’t tried to reach out to him since their fateful first kiss.

When Sam comes back from a dangerous mission, Wes embarks on his own: falling in love with a man who has already broken his heart.

Can these two make the most of their second chance together, or has too much come between them for love to bloom once more?

This sexy and heartwarming 75,000- word contemporary MM romance
Coming Home contains mature themes and strong sexual content. Adults only.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B077X43XY8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Equal Love Publishing (December 2, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.1 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers find this romance novel to be a powerful tale with well-developed characters and stunning love scenes. Moreover, the book receives positive feedback for its readability, with one customer describing it as a fine evening's read. However, the writing style receives mixed reactions, with some customers finding it carefully crafted while others describe it as treacly.

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25 customers mention "Story quality"18 positive7 negative

Customers find the story powerful and poignant, with one customer describing it as beautiful and intense.

"...Open the book and enjoy a well-written, erotic novel with a lot of twists that keep the tension rising. A fine evening’s read. Grady Harp, December 17" Read more

"Great start to the series. I absolutely loved Wes and Sam and I didn't want their story to end. Loved it. Can't wait to read the next book." Read more

"...The ending is wonderful." Read more

"...only are the main character's expressions of tenderness, their intimate feelings and personal loss examined, but they also reflect on past mistakes..." Read more

8 customers mention "Readability"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the book wonderful, with one mentioning they enjoyed reading Wesley and Sam's story, while another describes it as quite unforgettable.

"...A fine evening’s read. Grady Harp, December 17" Read more

"...-in-a-few-hours novel, it is profound, gripping, poignant, and quite unforgettable. The sub title should be One Kiss...." Read more

"I enjoyed reading Wesley and Sams story, even though there were misunderstandings and Sam not really understanding how relationships work...." Read more

"...It was a good read, and I look forward to more by J.P. Oliver." Read more

6 customers mention "Character development"6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the well-developed characters in the book, with one customer noting how they connect with each character and another highlighting the main character's expressions of tenderness.

"...The secondary characters, namely Tom and Sara, were equally great...." Read more

"...Not only are the main character's expressions of tenderness, their intimate feelings and personal loss examined, but they also reflect on past..." Read more

"...in love with each other, while being so well written that you connect with each character and feel their pain, heartbreak, and rejection...." Read more

"...The characters were well developed and easy to relate to and love. Esp Sara. I just can't read this particular writing style." Read more

3 customers mention "Beauty"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the beauty of the book, particularly noting the stunning love between the characters, with one customer describing it as very polished.

"...involve men, and his manner in bringing these stories to life is very polished...." Read more

"...my goodness what they went through have me crying 😢 but the love they have is stunning i enjoy reading this book so much i recommend it to friends..." Read more

"...two confused broken men and their family are so sweet and heart brakingly beautiful." Read more

17 customers mention "Writing style"11 positive6 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the writing style of the book, with some finding it carefully crafted while others describe it as treacly.

"...Open the book and enjoy a well-written, erotic novel with a lot of twists that keep the tension rising. A fine evening’s read. Grady Harp, December 17" Read more

"...The MCs Wes and Sam were awesome, great chemistry, great details. The secondary characters, namely Tom and Sara, were equally great...." Read more

"...The language here is stilted and verbose. Like so many other word processor novels it could benefit by losing 200 pages...." Read more

"...Written so carefully that Sam becomes very real and the reader is unknowingly holding breaths and unable to put the pages down...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2017
    Author Peter Styles is a young gay author with twenty-nine books under his belt already. Though he gives little in the way of biographical data, if the photograph on his bio page is indeed the author he does indeed command our attention! Now he joins forces with J.P. Oliver about whom we know little, but if an author with the style of Peter invites a co-author then we are assured he must have promise. For a first joint venture this book COMING HOME is a very strong beginning. And it appears this is to be a series they call FINDING SHORE, this being the initial installment.

    Peter writes love stories, romances that involve men, and his manner in bringing these stories to life is very polished. J.P. seems to add to that flavor with a special interest in military matters. They know how to grab our attention with a fine opening – “Falling in love with his best friend’s brother had never been part of Wesley Adams’ plan. Having the crush on his best friend’s brother—well, he was used to that. He’d had a crush on Sam Carlisle for nearly a decade. It wasn’t all that surprising that when the handsome, aloof Navy SEAL came home for leave, he spent their alone time hopelessly thinking about how nice their faces would be pushed together. But here they were, the night before Sam shipped off again, and Wes could feel his heart hammer beneath his chest in a way that it never had before. In a way that demanded attention. Demanded a response. The sky above them twinkled from the stars brightly shining. The Kansas sky had never looked half as good as it did that night. Wes thought every little ache inside his chest was etched into the atmosphere; every glimmering star was a reminder that things were going to dim so thoroughly, so soon. Sam Carlisle was leaving again and Wes couldn’t even muster the courage to kiss him. Wes swallowed around the lump in his throat and asked, “When do you leave?” Sam looked down from the patch of sky he, too, had been staring at. He watched Wes for just a moment before answering. “The morning.” The air crackled around them. For the first time, Wes told Sam exactly what he felt. “Don’t go.” “I have to.” “No, you don’t. Don’t go, don’t leave.” “I have to,” Sam argued. “I have to leave because it’s the right thing to do.” “Forget the right thing to do. Do what you want.”

    But on to the development of this story – ‘When Sam Carlisle was called away to the Navy SEALs, he left behind his family and the man he was falling for. Though he promised he’d come back, he never expected it to be like this: half-dead, bloodied, and terrified to say anything to the man he left behind. Wes Adams loved his town, his job, his best friend—and his best friend’s brother. But Sam is gone and hasn’t tried to reach out to him since their fateful first kiss. When Sam comes back from a dangerous mission, Wes embarks on his own: falling in love with a man who has already broken his heart. Can these two make the most of their second chance together, or has too much come between them for love to bloom once more?’

    Open the book and enjoy a well-written, erotic novel with a lot of twists that keep the tension rising. A fine evening’s read. Grady Harp, December 17
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
    Great start to the series. I absolutely loved Wes and Sam and I didn't want their story to end. Loved it. Can't wait to read the next book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018
    This is my first book by either of these authors. Will I read another book by either author? I honestly don't know.

    The MCs Wes and Sam were awesome, great chemistry, great details. The secondary characters, namely Tom and Sara, were equally great.

    However, while I love long books that I can really get lost in, I want all the words to matter. Saying the same thing over and over multiple times, in different ways, can be used effectively, but this is a case of it being over-used. I skimmed probably a third of the book. It does indicate my investment in the characters that I wanted to see this couple get their HEA. I also must say that some of those multiple thoughts of the characters were absolutely brilliant moments of introspection.

    Here's a possible spoiler. I don't have a military background, but from reading thousands of books, in multiple genres, and from general news watching, I can't imagine a POW being rescued and shipped straight to a local hospital, and with no military escort. Sam was a SEAL on a secret mission and didn't get a visit from his commander for a month? And Sam didn't have the first of what would surely be multiple surgeries somewhere like Ramstein AFB in Germany or Walter Reed? As a reader, I didn't need the authors to have detailed knowledge of these things, and maybe my assumptions are wrong. It just doesn't seem realistic that a Navy SEAL would be flown from a desert torture spot somewhere in the world straight to Topeka, Kansas, to have multiple bullets removed.

    The ending is wonderful.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2017
    While this is not a light, breezy read-in-a-few-hours novel, it is profound, gripping, poignant, and quite unforgettable.
    The sub title should be One Kiss. One kiss between two men, who have known of each other from the perimeter of friends will, offer potential and hope, a wish of maybes and potential to last through a year of silence. A silence filled with the horror of war and nearly unbearable torture.
    Wesley Adams, a solitary soul enjoys the quasi-monotony of accounting, he appreciates living his life on the perimeter of friends’ lives. Without a family of his own he enjoys being a part of his best friend Tom Carlisle’s family. Tom’s girlfriend and young son welcome Wes without question into their lives. Wes carefully continues his friendship without alluding to his secret crush on Tom’s older brother Sam. Sam Carlisle the handsome, committed to his country, Navy SEAL. Currently on active duty, on a dark mission somewhere untraceable. For the better part of a decade Wes has maintained a love for Tom from afar.
    When Wes and Tom talked the night before he deployed, sitting together under the Kansas sky filled with stars, Wes asked him not to leave because he cared for him. Tom and Wes kissed feeling an over whelming connection. Tom promised he would come back to Wes and Wes agreed he would be waiting. The months had stretched into nearly year with no communication and Wes was sure his heart was broken. Hourly Wes’s mind, his body remembers every minute, every touch of their short time together. Nights find Wes consumed with thoughts of Sam invading his dreams. Without any communication from the Navy SEAL, Wes believes that Sam thought Wes was simply a joke and there had not been a connection and does not consider there could be a relationship. Wes thinks it is finally time to give up on Sam and begin to date.
    When Tom casually mentions that he hasn’t heard from Sam for seven months and he doesn’t know what is wrong, Wes immediately assures Tom that Sam is simply busy and not able to communicate, as he covers his own fears for Sam’s safety. At his desk Wes spends hours researching Sam and discovers he is officially missing. Wes doesn’t share his findings.
    A world away in a dry inhospitable land, Sam realizes that he is in love with Wes. Thoughts of Wes make him breathe, make him happy. Sam knew that had to be love. When he joined the Navy at 18 he never thought that he would crave ordinary events, backyard barbeques, holding hands and kissing a guy. Sam didn’t think he had accidently fallen in love with a boy he never knew he wanted. Every night Sam thought of Wes, remembering their kiss and the possibilities, the tantalizing hope for love and, family and more, what a life including Wes might become. Each night in his barracks Sam wrote to Wes trying to tell Wes what he was like, asking Wes questions wanting to know him better. With each letter, Sam realizes he is falling a little more in love with Wesley Adams. Sam wrote the letters each night for months, long after he knew he would never send them. The letters ended up in the trash. But Sam was so sure of his feelings for Wes and wanted once more to kiss him. However, at the moment, he was a little busy. Too busy for kisses and futures.
    At this point the book becomes tense and gritty as enemy forces prevail and Sam is identified as missing. Meticulously detailed chapters become the daylight versions of nightmares. Written so carefully that Sam becomes very real and the reader is unknowingly holding breaths and unable to put the pages down.
    This an amazing journey of two men who share so much and whose souls identified each other before there were words. A caution, quantities of tissues are needed for the epilog.
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  • Karen meenan
    5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give ten stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2018
    I absolutely adored this book I. Couldn't put it Down. I fell completely in love with Wes and sam. It was such a lovely story I cried I laughed I had every emotion I felt like I knew them in real life I didn't want it to end. I 100% recommend this book.
  • Dohntbm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Coming Home by JP Oliver
    Reviewed in Australia on December 10, 2017
    This is a great book I got laughs and tears it was a hard book to put down the story line was great looking forward to reading more from this author, so get the book pull up a chair in a cosy place relax and get absorb in the tale. Just loved it and you will to I could have kept reading more, so enjoy.
  • Thing
    2.0 out of 5 stars Could not finish.
    Reviewed in Australia on February 14, 2018
    I tried really hard to finish this book and got to 84% before I finally gave up. The extraneous material and repetition coupled with the lack of plot, did me in. The actual romance began at 80% but by that time I could not find the interest to care about the characters.

    I had no interest in a blow-by-blow blind date that served no purpose other than allowing the MC to ruminate over the guilt...of a kiss? for pages. Not interested in cooking, or coming and going to a hospital where nothing really happens. And I'm certainly not interested in what everyone orders every time there is a meal.

    I tried!
  • Piripi
    3.0 out of 5 stars Too Wordy!
    Reviewed in Australia on January 7, 2019
    I found this book to be very cumbersome and verbose. So much so, I had to take a break from it and read something else before returning to finish it. The story line has great promise but is weighed down by the writing style.
  • Jodie.c
    5.0 out of 5 stars coming home
    Reviewed in Australia on April 1, 2022
    Wow what a truely moving story of angst and love and the road it took for two people to find it together.

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