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A great odd couple romance between Nick who never does one night stands and Ryan who has been bed hopping all over campus. A well written short with two very likable characters.

I liked the concept of this, and I liked the potential for where it could go, but I wasn't sold on the whole relationship between Eli and Cooper. It felt more like them being together was a convenience rather then developing feelings. I could tell that Eli may have started developing feelings, but Cooper seemed like a playboy. I didn't love it.

Get What You Need opens on a Thursday night at Bryan's Bar. Things are looking routine until Jay Hinshaw looks up from behind the bar and sees Patrick Graves standing in the open door. Jay like every former convict working in Bryan's immediately recognizes Patrick for what he is-a cop! Patrick scopes out the bar and knows right away what interest him-Jay.

Patrick watches Jay, while Jay watches a rough and tumble bunch of tourists from the Atlanta Underground in the mood to cause some trouble. As the night proceeds the sizzle between Jay and Patrick builds. The two discuss Patrick's involvement in a major Atlanta crime case while trading scorching glances and occasionally casting an eye toward the increasing raucous tourists.

Get What You Need reveals the opening scenes in what may develop into a very passionate relationship between two individuals who met under less than perfect circumstances, but are open to sharing a future. Janey Chapel's characters have personalities that encourage you to get to know them. Get What You Need has some hot scenes and two guys that made me eager to hear the rest of their stories. It's definitely worth 4.5 stars.

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Simple, short and good.

I found myself pushing through this story, like it was a rerun. I knew the story and found it lacking in originality. That said it's still had some gentle, sweet moments.

The two guys meet and simply click and this where I generally begin complaining that there was no plot, characters were cardboard cutouts....But I really liked it.
Yes they do click, but they talk to each other. They feel a connection, but undying love is not spoken. It's the possibility of a future together.
I feel like I caught a glimpse and am hoping to see more, but I was still left satisfied.
3.75 Stars

I found myself pushing through this story, like it was a rerun. I knew the story and found it lacking in originality. That said it's still had some gentle, sweet moments.

This novella was pretty darn close to perfect! I hated that it had to end and I would love for the author to revisit these characters. LOVED IT!

This novella was pretty darn close to perfect! I hated that it had to end and I would love for the author to revisit these characters. LOVED IT!

Probably 3.5. I much prefer the sequel but it's sweet and short.

Felt really short and needed fleshing out a little more and the end was abrupt. I thought I'd missed some pages.

I spent most of the book wondering what the hell the MCs saw in each other. I didn't feel much of an emotional connection between the MCs, but perhaps with more time... I felt like the story was a bit unfinished when I got to the end.

Apart from that, and the neck-breaking POV changes, I liked it well enough.

Short novella that was available for free a few weeks ago. It's available in an anthology now.

We have Ryan, happy go lucky twenty something, living his life and going through a series of hook ups in bars around campus. Ryan is not looking for anything permanent or even a second date. He meets Nick while doing a favour for his BFF Cheyenne. Nick, who's been burned before makes quite an impression on Ryan. Both of them find a way to set aside their fears and maybe try to make a go of the chemistry between them.

Short, sweet. Ryan is a lovable character. The story is told from his point of view. A solid three stars.

Short novella that was available for free a few weeks ago. It's available in an anthology now.

We have Ryan, happy go lucky twenty something, living his life and going through a series of hook ups in bars around campus. Ryan is not looking for anything permanent or even a second date. He meets Nick while doing a favour for his BFF Cheyenne. Nick, who's been burned before makes quite an impression on Ryan. Both of them find a way to set aside their fears and maybe try to make a go of the chemistry between them.

Short, sweet. Ryan is a lovable character. The story is told from his point of view. A solid three stars.

Not a strict HEA, but you can see how these boys will continue to be together. I liked this short story more than I thought I would. I liked the military code and how they comforted each other and how the other team members reacted (or didn't) It was a bit strange that neither Cooper or Fitch had ever had a homosexual experience (or thought?) before, but I could see how in the intensity of their training they clung together. A good argument for gays in military, and a good enough piece.½

This was for sure a very nice story and it had the potential for being a great long novel, but this was only an appetizer. I actually can't say if the author has any intention to write more about these two men, and so this was only a way to tease the reader, or if she cleverly built a novella that had the wide breath of a novel.

Kip is a sport psychologist for a professional football team. He is the newbie in the team and he has not exactly the role everyone else thinks at as useful, but he is a nice guy and one that you can easily fall in friendship with without even realizing it. And if Kip has a special eye for Greg, one of the coaches, it all remains at 'eyes' level, he has never made a move on the other man, even if he thought sometime to have seen a similar knowing look on the other man. Then Greg has a simple but serious accident and he is forced in bed at least for three days, and a stunned Kip discovers that he is listed as contact in case of emergency. Kip doesn't think twice and he finds himself with a growling Greg in bed... well, it was not exactly the way he has wished to do it, but the result is pretty much the same.

The entire story is basically the play of hint and innuendos that will bring Kip and Greg to admit that there is something more between them. It's not the story of a forever and happily ever after love, actually I think that, in the end, Kip and Greg have only realized that they are good together, but there is not yet real love between them, at least not a love they have acknowledged. Once in a time, this is not a friends with benefits relationship that will lead to love, this is actually the description of how two men start a friends with benefits relationship. It's not said, and this is exactly the reason why I think there is potential for a longer story, that between Kip and Greg it's not love, only that love, for now, it's not the main purpose of the story. Love, at this moment, will be too complicated: there is always the usual problem of being gay in a world, professional football, where the don't ask don't tell policy it's pretty much the same as in the army. Without love between them, or as I said, without an acknowledged love, Kip and Greg can pretend that sex is enough, and that, if they are discreet, they can be together without too much clamour.

Probably for now it's enough, and being a novella, it's not necessary for this story to find a solution to their problems. But the questions are all there, as it's the potential: I wouldn't mind to see Kip brings Greg at home, like a prodigal son who comes back home with a coveted prize, 'see mom and dad (or better grandmom and granddad)? Even if I couldn't be like all my other cousins, at least I was able to find a man like them!'. Now don't get me wrong, between Kip and his family there are no big issue, and I was thinking more to the funny aspect of the scene than anything else.

Also the characterization of Kip and Greg was quite original, for once it was not the professional player who was a slob at home, and controlled and quiet Kip was not the same in his private life, like all the energy he didn't spend yelling in a playfield, was reversed in creating chaos in his apartment. Instead Greg freak control's attitude was more in role with the semi-closeted case, putting a controlled mask outside, also at his home, when inside he is burning to finally be able to do as he wants, without need to hide.

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Felt really short and needed fleshing out a little more and the end was abrupt. I thought I'd missed some pages.