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colleen_m's review against another edition
3.0
Title: Saving Samuel
Author: Nicole Colville
Series: Manchester Menage Collection
Genre: M/M/M Contemporary Romance
Main Characters:
Daniel is a firefighter, used to putting his life on the line to protect others. His relationship over the past six years with Milo, a police office, has been rocky. Daniel loves Milo, and Milo seems to have strong feelings for Daniel, but it never seems to work for them despite how they try.
Samuel is a former sex slave who was kidnapped from his foster home at 14, escaped around 16, and has been on the run every since. His former captors set him up to die in a fire, but Daniel rescues him.
Plot/Conflict:
Samuel is on the run from his former kidnappers who were using him as a sex worker, keeping him hooked on drugs. He has been free, in a matter of speaking, for at least a year when Daniel rescues him from the fire. Daniel has only just decided to leave Milo for good, and having an instant attraction to Samuel is only furthering that decision. Milo is willing to lay everything on the line and explain what he wants from Daniel, except seeing the budding attraction between Daniel and Samuel has him feeling defensive…. And aroused.
While the three are getting to know each other and figure out how to potentially build a life together, Samuel’s captors are still looking for him, his former “owner” is a Russian mobster who will stop at nothing to have Samuel back.
Loves:
The super hot threesome scenes. Not gonna lie, it was hawt. I liked that it wasn’t all about defined roles, or defined positions. These three took sex pretty open.
Likes:
I felt like the menage aspect was handled well from a relationship development standpoint. Milo and Danny had a relationship that wasn’t meeting both of their needs, and adding a third was a logical solution, but the third person needed to be the right fit, not just an extra person in bed.
Peeves:
Danny was a little immature for me. He was supposed to come across as the wounded party I guess, between him and Milo, and instead he came across as sulky and petulant to me. He jumped the gun a lot where it came to Samuel and sometimes is was pretty uncomfortable with this his attraction towards someone who was basically described as an underage girl at first.
And Danny realized that he wants Samuel directly after kicking Milo to the curb, but the second he gets Samuel home, he is back to screwing with Milo. It was just very immature and disingenuous to the romance story for me.
Milo wasn’t my fave character either, he just came across as manipulative to me
Spoiler
making Danny think he was screwing other people when he wasn’tFavorite Quote:
You will always be you. Even if you dressed up as a sheep and crawled around, it would be you, just a different, fluffier version of you.”
wendylynnm's review against another edition
3.0
What I liked about this book was Daniel. I think he wanted his HEA so badly that he finally opened his eyes and saw that he could have so much more than what he expected. Being in an on and off relationship with Milo for six years he was fed up with Milo not being more open to him about what he wanted, besides sex. When Daniel, a firefighter, saves a homeless person he feels an instant connection to the person in his arms. When Milo sees how Daniel is reacting to Samuel, the man he saved in the fire, he steps up his game to prove to Daniel he is the man Daniel wants him to be. Samuel was saved by Daniel, but he is the one that ends up saving all three of them.
What I did not like were the errors, if you go back through my reviews you will see I am not one to point out errors but there were so many. I finished this book even though I wanted to stop reading a few times due to the writing/editing issues.
What I did not like were the errors, if you go back through my reviews you will see I am not one to point out errors but there were so many. I finished this book even though I wanted to stop reading a few times due to the writing/editing issues.
tiggers_hate_acorns's review against another edition
3.0
The story was ok but could have been more. I got bored with all the sex and couldn't understand how having a third in a relationship fixed what was wrong in the relationship when there was only two!! The age of Samuel also threw me a little - eighteen is young - and even though he would have seen more of life than most teenagers he was still getting over what his life had been since he was fifteen.
Like others I found the middle dragged and then the climax of the story was very rushed and over but not the story which instead of having an epilogue dragged on for more sex and everyday stuff.
3.5 stars(3 for GR)
Like others I found the middle dragged and then the climax of the story was very rushed and over but not the story which instead of having an epilogue dragged on for more sex and everyday stuff.
3.5 stars(3 for GR)
tracy_wilkin93's review against another edition
5.0
What an emotionally beautiful story. This book is by far the best ménage story I have ever read, and I have read a LOT!!
In other ménage books, I have thought that there was a feeling of a duo, with one seeming slightly less involved/loved than the other two, but the dynamic between Samuel, Danny & Milo is epic. They compliment each other so completely, that it was quite moving reading the book. It was a tale of Samuel's tragic early years, Danny's soft heart and Milos gruff, protective ways. Throw in a little kidnapping, and a truly riveting book was written. They were all 3, perfect pieces to the puzzle that is love. Nicole Colville, what a STAR!!!!!!
In other ménage books, I have thought that there was a feeling of a duo, with one seeming slightly less involved/loved than the other two, but the dynamic between Samuel, Danny & Milo is epic. They compliment each other so completely, that it was quite moving reading the book. It was a tale of Samuel's tragic early years, Danny's soft heart and Milos gruff, protective ways. Throw in a little kidnapping, and a truly riveting book was written. They were all 3, perfect pieces to the puzzle that is love. Nicole Colville, what a STAR!!!!!!
knrt_17's review against another edition
5.0
First time author for me.... an amazing story about love, that is not always easy or a bed of roses. Some hard topics covered in this book but still a wonderful read.
iamltr's review against another edition
2.0
Eh...
Never have I been bored during a menage scene before but there's always a first time. I did enjoy the overwhelming British speech, it was like listening to someone from Manchester.
Never have I been bored during a menage scene before but there's always a first time. I did enjoy the overwhelming British speech, it was like listening to someone from Manchester.
cadiva's review against another edition
3.0
This was okay, a bit dramatic but I liked the suspense element to it which brought a little bit more to the establishment of the menage.
There's lots of kinky sex but I did also get a sense of emotional (if angsty) connection between the three men but there was also a fair amount of behaviour (Daniel's bathroom wanking scene for one) which just made my skin crawl out of misplaced creep!
Also, given the British setting, it really didn't "feel" British to me. I know Manchester reasonably well but I didn't get a sense of place from this book.
There's lots of kinky sex but I did also get a sense of emotional (if angsty) connection between the three men but there was also a fair amount of behaviour (Daniel's bathroom wanking scene for one) which just made my skin crawl out of misplaced creep!
Also, given the British setting, it really didn't "feel" British to me. I know Manchester reasonably well but I didn't get a sense of place from this book.
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