Strangers No More by Angelique Voisen

Strangers No More by Angelique Voisen
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short story (53 pages)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 3 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Can two broken men take another shot at love and go from being strangers to soul mates?

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The moment Pete opens his eyes in the hospital room, he instantly hates the massive surgical scar across his chest. It’s a reminder of his mistake, his sin, because Max might have forgotten but he was the one at the wheel that night. When fate offers them a second chance to make their marriage real, will Pete be brave enough to right his wrongs?

While having a bitter and jealous argument, Max and Pete were involved in a car crash, leaving Pete in a coma and Max unable to do his art – his only real passion. When Pete finally wakes up, everything has changed. Can Max and Pete turn their fake marriage into something real?

I found the start of this story a little disorientating. It starts in the middle of a fight while Max and Pete are driving home, slightly drunk and both angry and then the car accident happens. I personally struggled a little to understand exactly what was going on in the situation the story had opened up into. Even understanding that their marriage was a sham Max seemed to genuinely dislike his husband (Max even uses the words “hate” in his thoughts in relation to Pete) and the argument is quite bitter. I didn’t really grasp why – if there was so much tension and anger built up between the two men – they had continued on as long as they did. I also didn’t really feel there was a solid explanation why Max didn’t leave Pete all those weeks Pete was in a coma. For me, personally, the opening and first chapter or so were quite confusing and it took me a lot longer than normal to really get into the characters and story itself.

As the story progressed, however, a lot of the relationship dynamics are explained. I found the rest of this story an interesting and complicated discovery of how Pete and Max’s relationship not only began and reached the point we started at on page 1, but also how they each could discover a way to move forward. I have to admit a part of me didn’t find Pete and Max’s relationship very healthy – certainly, in my opinion, it’s not a traditional “romantic” relationship. But Pete and Max were both fully capable, grown men, and discovering why they stayed with each other, and how they came to rely on the other and their relationship was a very different and interesting read. As they’re both recovering from the accident for most of the story there’s not a lot of physical romance between the men, this story focuses more on the two men’s personalities and the relationship itself, which I thought was a good thing. I feel that had the author adding sex into the mix between them both it could have been slightly too charged and I partly feel that would have only added to my confusion and the murkiness of the men’s relationship.

Readers looking for an intense and deeply relationship-centric style of story – or possibly a hurt/comfort style of story – should find this a good read. I did find it different to the usual romance story and aside from being quite confused initially I enjoyed it. This is definitely a “slow burn” sort of romance and while Pete and Max do become intimate right near the end there isn’t a lot of physical romance between the men – this is more about the relationship itself and Max and Pete coming to terms with their new situation in life both as individuals and as a married couple.