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The List (Better Together Universe) Kindle Edition

by BL Maxwell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
Tommy Carter was just minding his own business, taking out the trash from his job at a local bar and grill, when he noticed the man hiding behind the dumpster. He couldn’t get a good look at the guy, and the less he can find out about him, the more curious he becomes. He’d lived through difficult circumstances in his past, and decides if he can help, he will.

Tommy doesn’t have a lot, but he has a heart of gold that won’t let him walk away from someone he knows needs a hand up.Zane Martin was left wandering the streets of Sacramento in a haze after tragedy struck. He’s afraid to trust anyone and suffering from a lack of food and adequate clothing to keep him alive and well against the weather about to hit the area. He’s not sure he can trust Tommy, but he wants to.

There has to be one good person out there, and maybe he’s just found him. A story of helping when you can, and accepting help when it’s offered.
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    December 16, 2019
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082TYNP5Y
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 16, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.3 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 out of 5 stars 315 ratings

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BL Maxwell

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BL Maxwell grew up in a small town listening to her grandfather spin tales about his childhood. Later she became an avid reader and after a certain vampire series she became obsessed with fanfiction. She soon discovered Slash fanfiction and later discovered the MM genre and was hooked.

Many years later, she decided to take the plunge and write down some of the stories that seem to run through her head late at night when she’s trying to sleep.

BL Maxwell loves to hear from readers who enjoy her stories, so feel free to reach out at any of these links:

Website: https://blmaxwellwriter.com/ (Free book)

Newsletter: https://sendfox.com/blmaxwell

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bl.maxwell.35/

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/bl-maxwell

BingeBooks: https://bingebooks.com/profile/blmaxwell

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Customers find this book to be a powerful and enlightening story with heartfelt characters, particularly admiring Tommy's big heart. They appreciate its readability, with one customer noting how it captured their attention from the first page. Customers praise the writing style, and one review highlights how the book spreads kindness. Customers like the book's length, with one noting it's decent for such a short book.

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27 customers mention "Story quality"23 positive4 negative

Customers enjoy the story quality of the book, describing it as sweet and powerful, with one customer noting it's a well-written heart-pulling narrative that keeps readers engaged from start to finish.

"...This is a beautiful story with the HEA I want for everyone! The emotions and circumstances depicted are strong and deep...." Read more

"A quick read, very sweet story about 2 young men meeting each other, one helping the other who's going through a hard time, and super amongst friends..." Read more

"...This story is MAGNIFICENTLY written. This gives you the first hand look into what can happen by one wrong circumstance at the exact wrong time...." Read more

"I love how loving and caring Tommy is from the beginning of the story. His boss is also caring...." Read more

15 customers mention "Readability"15 positive0 negative

Customers find the book to be a quick and engaging read, with one customer noting how it captured their attention from the first page.

"A quick read, very sweet story about 2 young men meeting each other, one helping the other who's going through a hard time, and super amongst friends..." Read more

"...All the characters in this story are amazing, well written and a joy to learn about. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful and inspiring...." Read more

"...I also love the epilogue. I listened to the audio and it was well done." Read more

"...This story is heartwarming. Tommy is so sweet. I love this book. It pulled me out of a slump. I love the hurt/comfort and the found family stories." Read more

9 customers mention "Character development"9 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, particularly admiring Tommy's big heart, and one customer mentions enjoying getting to know Tommy and Zane.

"...Tommy is exceptionally sympathetic. It's not a bad way to be. He shows real concern for a fellow human being and is compelled to help...." Read more

"...All the characters in this story are amazing, well written and a joy to learn about. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful and inspiring...." Read more

"I love how loving and caring Tommy is from the beginning of the story. His boss is also caring...." Read more

"...This story is heartwarming. Tommy is so sweet. I love this book. It pulled me out of a slump. I love the hurt/comfort and the found family stories." Read more

5 customers mention "Caring for others"5 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's portrayal of caring for others, with one customer highlighting its themes of love, friendship, and helping strangers.

"...It's not a bad way to be. He shows real concern for a fellow human being and is compelled to help...." Read more

"This is a heartwarming story about homelessness and being a caring human being...." Read more

"...This book is about being kind to other people. I guess I should say there is love in this book, honest and true...." Read more

"...Clean short story with a good message of caring for others and spreading kindness." Read more

4 customers mention "Writing style"3 positive1 negative

Customers appreciate the writing style of the book.

"...All the characters in this story are amazing, well written and a joy to learn about. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful and inspiring...." Read more

"If you are looking for a truly wonderfully written book, this is it!..." Read more

"DNF at 39%. Some grammatical issues, ranging from pedantic to affecting understanding of the story; not exciting, fairly repetitive, style of prose..." Read more

"...BL Maxwell is a good writer and this book works as a human story. That makes it worth reading." Read more

3 customers mention "Book length"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's length, with one noting it's decent for such a short book.

"...Some plot holes but decent for such a short book. Closed door romance. Very PG" Read more

"...I was engrossed throughout the whole time. This was a short, quick read and very interesting from start to finish." Read more

"Short and sweet..." Read more

Help turns into love
4 out of 5 stars
Help turns into love
The List is an emotional story between two men, a college student and a homeless man, who fall in love through hardship and determination. Tom, the student, works parttime at a restaurant; Zane is a homeless man, who lives behind the dumpster that is placed in the alley behind the restaurant where Tom works. Tom helps Zane with food and clothing to keep him warm during the incoming storm. Then Zane disappears; Tom keeps looking around, searching for the man for whom he has developed feelings. The story ends on a happy note. This novella is an easy read, full of feels and side characters who build up the romance. I recommend this book. ❤️
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  • kathy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Open your heart and let in all that is kind and good!!!😍😍😍
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2025
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    I think this book picked me. I live near paradise and was there when the fire devastated everyone. I know first hand how people were and still are affected by this tragedy! This is a beautiful story with the HEA I want for everyone! The emotions and circumstances depicted are strong and deep. Zane is complex and his suffering is something that reaches your soul. No one really knows the story behind someone down on their luck. Tommy is exceptionally sympathetic. It's not a bad way to be. He shows real concern for a fellow human being and is compelled to help.😘 I highly recommend this heartfelt story of our human condition!!!🤔
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  • Chrissy K
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cute MM story
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024
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    A quick read, very sweet story about 2 young men meeting each other, one helping the other who's going through a hard time, and super amongst friends. I usually read a lot of dark romance/psychological thrillers so I kept expecting Zane to be Tommy's other personality, or for there to be some sort of big twist lol
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  • D.C. in D.C.
    3.0 out of 5 stars An OK Short
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023
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    Sweet but flawed story. Tommy is a rare breed, not many people would do what he did to help a stranger. Zane’s backstory on how he became homeless surprised me and I found it wasn’t very plausible. And when they’re sitting in Tommy’s kitchen during the power outage, how is it that Tommy could thell is was almost lunchtime by looking at the time on the microwave? And the thing that bothered me the most was Bruce constantly calling Tommy “kid”. And it was done a lot!
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  • Sue Allen Milkovich
    5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS A STORY OF THE SOUL
    Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019
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    This is my first book by this Author. It will not be my last, there are many more stories by BL MAXWELL to read. This story touched me to my soul. I was so caught up I read it straight through. Tommy is a college student working at a bar and grill. Trying to keep himself together so he can earn his degree. Then he noticed the guy behind the dumpster. His instincts wouldn't let him not try to help somehow. Zane found a safe place behind the dumpster at the bar and grill. Life circumstances had run him over and weren't finished yet. This story is MAGNIFICENTLY written. This gives you the first hand look into what can happen by one wrong circumstance at the exact wrong time. All the characters in this story are amazing, well written and a joy to learn about. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful and inspiring. It has my favorite, an AMAZING EPILOGUE. Soul touching, don't pass this one up. I HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!!!!!!
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Katy Beth
    4.0 out of 5 stars Finding Comfort
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
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    I love how loving and caring Tommy is from the beginning of the story. His boss is also caring. Zane's story is so tragic as we find out what has happened. This is a sweet story. I also love the epilogue. I listened to the audio and it was well done.
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  • redbearny
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a truly heart felt story!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020
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    If you are looking for a truly wonderfully written book, this is it! I was completely taken from the beginning to the last page and was so very sorry to see the book end. We meet Tommy, a nice quiet lonely college senior working his tail off in a restaurant and going to school. His boss is a really good guy and cares about Tommy a lot. Tommy see's a youngman hiding behind the dumpster in the back of the restaurant. He is cold, dirty and obliviously homeless. The story takes off from there. This is truly a well written heart pulling story of two young men finding themselves and the road that they must travel to get there! Once again BL Maxwell has written a powerful enlightening story and would we; as regular human beings take the steps that Tommy did to help Zane?
    I know after reading this story, I am going to look at life differently. An avid reader in Rock Tavern, NY.
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  • L
    2.0 out of 5 stars Muffin
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2023
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    DNF at 39%. Some grammatical issues, ranging from pedantic to affecting understanding of the story; not exciting, fairly repetitive, style of prose is really not for me (either comma spliced run-ons or choppy sentences). Just doesn’t have urgency, have no connection or emotions with the characters, a lot of time is spend congratulating Tommy for helping Zane the unhoused. Life is too short to read meh books
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  • Mikekey
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not her best work
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2023
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    Good bones for a story but too many holes in the plot. The last time Sacramento had significant snowfall was 1976, so the whole homeless in the snow was not believable. Tying the story to Caden and Rio to connect to Chloe was strange. Why not write the same story set somewhere where it might actually snow. And maybe the whole Paradise Camp Fire device was a real stretch.
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  • Mandy Tunstill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Something Special 💖💞💖
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2022
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    Absolutely loved it ..... beautiful but heartbreaking it's something really special showing what happens when life kicks you in the teeth, Tommy & Zane are amazing together Zane filled with despair and loneliness living in streets trying to survive and Zane and honest and caring soul who will do anything to look after him. 💖💖
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  • Loves to read
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful story
    Reviewed in Australia on December 23, 2019
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    This was a wonderful story for me during this festive season. A homeless man who lost all his hope gets a chance in life. I couldn't put the story down until i read the last sentence. Zane and Tommy will make you sigh with happy thoughts and they'll make you look at those who are homeless with compassion. Bravo, BL Maxwell.
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  • li cran
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quick read, with ponderable events
    Reviewed in Italy on May 26, 2021
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    Good, though perhaps slightly optimistic portrayal of homeless problems and just how easy it could be to wind up in these circumstances.
    Fast read, with characters sketched out fairly well and linear plot.
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  • Julia Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2020
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    This book was an enjoyable read & it really hit home that circumstances can change in a blink of an eye & we could all find ourselves homeless. Xx
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  • Li Taylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2020
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    A heartfelt story with a HEA ending. I love this genre of story and this is great. I enjoyed it very much
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