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Cute short story. Eli finally gets to talk to the owner of the liquor store that he finds very attractive, and they decide to get together. Not a long story, so there isn't much substance, but it's a decent, happy for this minute story.

A tiny touch of the "magic penis cures all" but I really liked it nonetheless.

This is a review of a second read of [b:An Inconvenient Hankering|6347444|An Inconvenient Hankering|Sienna Bishop|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328309526s/6347444.jpg|6533859] in June, 2014. My first read of the book was in summer 2011. I originally gave it 5 stars but dropped it down to 3 stars after re-reading it.

Hank and Sam had been best friends and constant companions/roommates since they were 16 years old. While in collage, they share a small dorm room and start a habit of bringing home girls at the same time and having sex with them a few feet apart from each other. Pretty soon Sam realizes he is more interested in watching Hank have sex with his girl than he is having sex with his own girl.

Sam and Hank continue living with one another throughout collage, eventually moving into an apartment together and Sam begins to suspect he is gay as the usual collage girls aren't doing it for him anymore, but listening to Hank and his girls through paper thin walls is enough to put his libido into overdrive. He decides he needs to move far away from Hank and his family to figure out for himself if he is actually gay or not.

So, after graduation, he takes a job in another state, experiments with men and accepts he is gay, but continues to stay in the closet with Hank and his family.

SO FRUSTRATING! And at this point, Sam wasn't even all that hung up on Hank. He had what he called a "collage crush" on Hank, but he was able to get over that pretty easily and continue to keep Hank as his dearest friend and keep their relationship close even hundreds of miles away.

Eventually, he can't handle being away from home anymore and decides to move back. Instead of being a grownup (he is 26 by now) and coming out to Hank and his friends and family, he continues to hide and almost ruins his friendship with Hank by moving in with him again (the hell?) and acting all weird and shit. After 7 months living with Hank again, he is now in love with him. (No shit!)

So, I was able to fog over some of these quirks 3 years ago but not now. I still liked the story, but Sam just about drove me crazy with how he handled everything so I definitely didn't enjoy the story nearly as much as I did after the first read. I can only recommended this one to extremely hardcore GFY fans. Others, you'll have much better luck elsewhere.

The story is short but I really like the style of this author, with one of the main character that in first point of view tells us his story. Eli is a rocket scientist, maybe a bit geeky, but not the asocial type; he also had a lover till the year before, but it was not the love of his life and when it ended for Eli it was not the end of the world. He took a dog from the kennel, and he likes the pet a lot, but it's not the same as a lover. And above all with Christmas time all around. Eli would like to share his life with a man, and he has in mind a man in particular, Jonas. Jonas is the owner of the liquor store Eli passes by every day returning back home from work; Jonas is handsome and gentle, but he is always flirting with a woman when he enters the store. And then one day, soon after Christmas, Eli enters the store and Jonas talks to him instead: it's love at first sight, Eli understands that. From that moment on the story, now love story, flows easily and smooth toward a nice happily ever after.

I like Eli's character since he is a nice man, an average man, but not for this insecure or sad. He is aware that he has a simple life but that he can be a good partner for the right man, and while he is dreaming on an apparent unreachable man, he is not depressed and he doesn't let go: when he sees the chance of happiness, he is ready to catch it. Of Jonas we don't know much, but he seems gentle and caring, a good man and the perfect partner of Eli. Both Eli than Jonas seem at easy with who they are and what they want, and this made them both very interesting character.

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