Dance With Me Dancing Book 1 edition by Heidi Cullinan Literature Fiction eBooks
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Sometimes life requires a partner.
Ed Maurer has bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semipro football career. He hates his soul-killing office job, but he loves volunteering at a local community center. The only fly in his ointment is the dance instructor, Laurie Parker, who can’t seem to stay out of his way.
Laurie was once one of the most celebrated ballet dancers in the world, but now he volunteers at Halcyon Center to avoid his society mother’s machinations. It would be a perfect escape, except for the oaf of a football player cutting him glares from across the room.
When Laurie has a ballroom dancing emergency and Ed stands in as his partner, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. Dancing leads to friendship, being friends leads to becoming lovers, but most important of all, their partnership shows them how to heal the pain of their pasts. Because with every turn across the floor, Ed and Laurie realize the only escape from their personal demons is to keep dancing—together.
This novel has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.
Dance With Me Dancing Book 1 edition by Heidi Cullinan Literature Fiction eBooks
Dance With Me by Heidi Cullinan5 stars!!
“Better to dance with the devil and enjoy yourself than hover under the glower of the nuns.”
This was one of those books that I just couldn’t put down, such an intense and beautiful story where the character connection was second to none. This MM spoke to me, the characters spoke to me and the author spoke to me. When I read my first MM many moons ago I never expected to fall in love with this genre so much. I try and read at least one a month but one is never enough, I always find myself reading two or three one after the other.
Ed and Laurie were opposites in all sense of the word, one was an ex semi-pro footballer and the other an amazingly talented ballet dancer. Both had their issues but both had hearts of gold, their paths crossing at a community centre where each gave a class. They hated each other, constant confrontations but we all know that there is a fine line between love and hate. Both made no secret of their sexuality and it seems that their hate for each other was just the kindling to an intense sexual attraction that neither were willing to admit in the first instance.
It is this slow, sizzling burn that draws you into their story, that will they won’t they push and pull that I love and crave. Never too much but enough to garner your interest and keep you invested on every level.
“…and when he danced he made male beauty come alive. Laurie wasn’t simply good. Laurie was a f***ing artist. As far as Ed was concerned, he was a legend. And I’ve kissed him.”
Ed’s career was ended with a near life threatening injury, he somehow was lucky enough to survive but the ramifications left him with a life long neck injury that never let him forget. He battled his way through life but he had never been the same since. He missed football and he saw his neck injury as a flaw, how it made him an inconvenience and a liability and totally unlovable…he couldn’t have been more wrong.
“The pain wasn’t trying to take away his life. The pain was his life.”
Laurie had a huge career in front of him when he took the biggest chance of his life and it spectacularly back fired. It seems the world was not ready for two male dance partners and he became a laughing stock in the dancing world. Laurie set up his own studio and gave up performing. It was a choice that haunts him to this day as it not only ruined his career but that of his partner too. His family are so unsupportive and just see him as a means to further ingratiate them into the social circle that they continually flutter around in.
“Sometimes I think two parts of me warred with each other, and they took down the whole of me in a civil war.”
When Ed loses a bet and Laurie asks him to attend a dance class as his partner the lines finally begin to blur and both of them finally notice the undeniable, intense, sexual chemistry that positively hums between them. You could power the national grid from in between these pages.
“You don’t simply feel the rhythm. You must feel the soul, both of the dance and of your partner.”
I loved the fact that these two had dancing in common and it became such an intrinsic part of their relationship. How dancing brought them together but also centred them, how dancing was “their” time where their connection became so deep that earth stood still and it was just Ed and Laurie, they had both finally found their home.
“Why do you stay with me?”
“…because I don’t want to dance by myself.”
Ed was a hilarious character that lightened this book and balanced it beautifully; his sarcastic, witty banter had me in hysterics and even lightened the intense, sullen Laurie. You couldn’t help but be affected and infected by Ed’s personality. Laurie was the cautious one, the dependable one, slightly OCD but the perfect balance to Ed’s carefree attitude.
This was a voyage of discovery for both of them and I was so glad that I went on this journey with them. This was a leap of faith for both of them, one of the biggest they would ever make, but one they would never regret. This journey was by no means easy, but learning to trust and love, to have faith in themselves and each other, to believe they were worthy…it was exquisite and I totally fell in love with them and this book.
“Laurie opened his mouth, his legs, his body and took Ed all the way into his soul.”
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Dance With Me Dancing Book 1 edition by Heidi Cullinan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
First off, there wasn't nearly as much conflict between Ed and Laurie as the synopsis would have you to believe; it only lasted a couple of chapters in. By Chap. 3 Laurie was thinking how handsome Ed was & Ed was practically begging for more of Laurie's time. What irked me more than anything - besides the fact that the book grew increasingly boring as it went on - were the characters. I didn't really find any of them likeable, and it was mostly because all everyone wanted to do was PUSH Laurie to dance. All they ever did was talk about how he needed to be a performer again, as if he had no other options, as if teaching was a nice little hobby but he was nobody and nothing without dance. He didn't want to perform anymore but it felt as if the entire book was just about everyone convincing him that he really didn't know what he wanted. And of course, in the end he capitulated, because despite the occasional spark of standing up for himself, that's all he really ever did give in. Case in point being convinced that the only way he could truly embrace himself as a gay man was to have sex in his godfather's hot tub while his godfather & partner watched, while also in the hot tub with them. WTH was this scene? And the description of what was floating in the water. OMG you've gotta be kidding me.
Laurie's mother was a hurtful, condescending bully who treated Laurie like a child who never knew what was best for himself; Oliver was a snobbish bully who acted as if Laurie's whole life should revolve around dancing and sex, both in public; Maggie was a disrespectful bully who didn't seem to realize that she worked for Laurie, not the other way around. And the reason they were all bullies is because Laurie allowed it. He was spineless. Ed was nice enough, but I honestly felt no passion between the 2 of them. I saw them more as 2 people who were trying to escape the realities of their problems and found solace in each other. Maybe that's why the sex was so boring. Either that or the author just isn't good at sex scenes. Other, minor issues Vicky knowing that the center was hanging on by a half a thread, yet still fighting donors/sponsors to the very end; Ed not drinking alcohol at Oliver's house because he'd had 2 Vicodin, yet he'd been taking his meds WITH alcohol throughout the book; Ed's friends topping off Laurie's beer repeatedly without him noticing, resulting in him getting drunk (not okay); Ed going on disability & antidepressants and not telling Laurie until a week later. Glad I found this when it was 99 cents.
Dance With Me by Heidi Cullinan
5 stars!!
“Better to dance with the devil and enjoy yourself than hover under the glower of the nuns.”
This was one of those books that I just couldn’t put down, such an intense and beautiful story where the character connection was second to none. This MM spoke to me, the characters spoke to me and the author spoke to me. When I read my first MM many moons ago I never expected to fall in love with this genre so much. I try and read at least one a month but one is never enough, I always find myself reading two or three one after the other.
Ed and Laurie were opposites in all sense of the word, one was an ex semi-pro footballer and the other an amazingly talented ballet dancer. Both had their issues but both had hearts of gold, their paths crossing at a community centre where each gave a class. They hated each other, constant confrontations but we all know that there is a fine line between love and hate. Both made no secret of their sexuality and it seems that their hate for each other was just the kindling to an intense sexual attraction that neither were willing to admit in the first instance.
It is this slow, sizzling burn that draws you into their story, that will they won’t they push and pull that I love and crave. Never too much but enough to garner your interest and keep you invested on every level.
“…and when he danced he made male beauty come alive. Laurie wasn’t simply good. Laurie was a f***ing artist. As far as Ed was concerned, he was a legend. And I’ve kissed him.”
Ed’s career was ended with a near life threatening injury, he somehow was lucky enough to survive but the ramifications left him with a life long neck injury that never let him forget. He battled his way through life but he had never been the same since. He missed football and he saw his neck injury as a flaw, how it made him an inconvenience and a liability and totally unlovable…he couldn’t have been more wrong.
“The pain wasn’t trying to take away his life. The pain was his life.”
Laurie had a huge career in front of him when he took the biggest chance of his life and it spectacularly back fired. It seems the world was not ready for two male dance partners and he became a laughing stock in the dancing world. Laurie set up his own studio and gave up performing. It was a choice that haunts him to this day as it not only ruined his career but that of his partner too. His family are so unsupportive and just see him as a means to further ingratiate them into the social circle that they continually flutter around in.
“Sometimes I think two parts of me warred with each other, and they took down the whole of me in a civil war.”
When Ed loses a bet and Laurie asks him to attend a dance class as his partner the lines finally begin to blur and both of them finally notice the undeniable, intense, sexual chemistry that positively hums between them. You could power the national grid from in between these pages.
“You don’t simply feel the rhythm. You must feel the soul, both of the dance and of your partner.”
I loved the fact that these two had dancing in common and it became such an intrinsic part of their relationship. How dancing brought them together but also centred them, how dancing was “their” time where their connection became so deep that earth stood still and it was just Ed and Laurie, they had both finally found their home.
“Why do you stay with me?”
“…because I don’t want to dance by myself.”
Ed was a hilarious character that lightened this book and balanced it beautifully; his sarcastic, witty banter had me in hysterics and even lightened the intense, sullen Laurie. You couldn’t help but be affected and infected by Ed’s personality. Laurie was the cautious one, the dependable one, slightly OCD but the perfect balance to Ed’s carefree attitude.
This was a voyage of discovery for both of them and I was so glad that I went on this journey with them. This was a leap of faith for both of them, one of the biggest they would ever make, but one they would never regret. This journey was by no means easy, but learning to trust and love, to have faith in themselves and each other, to believe they were worthy…it was exquisite and I totally fell in love with them and this book.
“Laurie opened his mouth, his legs, his body and took Ed all the way into his soul.”
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