Coming
home was supposed to be the end of something, until Mikal barreled into his
life…. and he wasn’t alone.
For Devin McKay, music has been his lover, his drug, and his best friend for as
long as he can remember, but there was always something he denied himself while
he pursued it. Now that his band has broken up and he’s returned to his
hometown of Stoney Brook, he’s settled into a new, somewhat drunken routine,
while he tries to get accustomed to this new phase in his life. The last thing
he expected was an old friend to send a troubled young musician his way.
Mikal needs help, or rather, his best friend, Moon, needs help getting over the
blinding bouts of stage fright that have been plaguing him for the last year.
He’ll do anything to get to the root of Moon’s issues, even follow along with
the unorthodox methods Devin prescribes for them. After all, Devin was a
success in the industry, while Mikal and Moon have been struggling to get a
foot in the door.
They aren’t the only ones struggling. Moon’s longtime friend with benefits,
Derrick, spends most days rudderless and pretending to be okay. There are
things he needs that Moon tries desperately to give him, but Moon has needs
too. All their pieces have jagged edges, but with a little twisting and
turning, and a lot of songs, they might discover a way they can all fit.
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Devin’s Boys starts with intense emotional drama between best friends,
Moon and Mikal, that had me in tears pretty quickly. I was totally sucked into
the story, desperate to know what was causing Moon such fear of performing and
causing him to let his best friend down.
Mikal seeks help from experienced musician Devin to help his best friend and
himself on the musical front. What he gets is a man who helps them personally
and professionally and helps change their lives. I don’t want to give away
anything that happens, but I loved where the story goes with the relationships
between the men. The last part of the book was just lovely, and the emotional
tension was dialed down. I do feel like we skipped over the nitty-gritty of a
lot of their relationship dynamics that I’d really have liked to see. I guess
I’m greedy. This is not a long book and I wanted more.
Devin’s Boys is the first book I’ve read by Layla Dorine and a week on
from reading it, I’m still surprised by how quickly she was able to grab my
attention and emotions with her characters. Even with all the drama, this is a
beautiful story, and the author has a new fan in me.
LAYLA
DORINE lives among the sprawling prairies of Midwestern America, in a house
with more cats than people. She loves hiking, fishing, swimming, martial arts,
camping out, photography, cooking, and dabbling with several artistic mediums.
In addition, she loves to travel and visit museums, historic, and haunted
places.
Layla got hooked on writing as a child, starting with poetry and then branching
out, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Hard times, troubled times, the
lives of her characters are never easy, but then what life is? The story is in
the struggle, the journey, the triumphs and the falls. She writes about
artists, musicians, loners, drifters, dreamers, hippies, bikers, truckers,
hunters and all the other folks that she’s met and fallen in love with over the
years. Sometimes she writes urban romance and sometimes its aliens crash
landing near a roadside bar. When she isn’t writing, or wandering somewhere
outdoors, she can often be found curled up with a good book and a kitty on her
lap.
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