Exina's Reviews > Vanilla Clouds

** spoiler alert ** It started pretty good. The fact that Magnus didn’t tell Michał who he really was when they first met was okay. But he started dating him, and still didn’t tell him. I just didn’t get it.

“You wouldn’t let me see you! I had to do something!” Oh, then it’s okay.

I found Magnus’ behavior stalkerish and kind of violent. Not physically violent, but he was clearly disrespectful of boundaries.

“Believe you? Really?!”
“You gave me no choice, dammit!” His voice boomed…

And then:

“Just… If you try walking away I’ll run after you.”

It seems to be a serious issue. Michał feels humiliated and vulnerable, still, for some insane reason, he decides to trust Magnus, because he is smart and wonderful (his words, not mine), and they start a relationship.

Random issues:
- The wonderfully written first kiss scene is interrupted by a ‘baby’. I hate it. It’s totally on me, I know. Anything else works for me, even ‘babe.’ But I just can’t stand ‘baby.’ I can’t explain it, I just can’t.
-Their first time starts passionately then they stop to paint each other with chocolate. Wasting time, if you ask me. Maybe it’s cute and romantic for others, but I want passion, dammit. I should have read the blurb more carefully.
-Using the word ‘toddler’ in a simile in a sexual description:

“Michał!” he exclaimed, surprise and a mild warning in his suddenly loud voice. But his arms tightened around me, and his hips rocked. Yes. I threw one leg over his, spreading myself open as his hand slid down my belly and caught my cock, stroking lightly. I was ravenous for more. Now when I could have this again, have sex with a man I felt safe with, a man who loved me, I was greedy like a toddler.

A toddler??

- The intention of public proposal. Michal and Magnus witness a public proposal, and Michał expresses his dislike of it:

“I think it’s weird when they pop the question in public. It’s like it would count less to just ask privately. And on a vacation no less… I don’t know. It’s like…more for the show than for a real-life commitment.”

Totally agree with this, I hate public proposals and public love confessions. But it turns out that Magnus wanted to propose to him like that and Michał is the one who apologizes. So to make it right, he decides to propose to Magnus right on the spot. And Magnus’ reaction:

He laughed so hard there were tears running down his cheeks all the way into his beard.

>>> The End<<<

Seriously. I was turning a page back on my Kindle that maybe something went wrong, but no. It’s the last line.

The first book I read by Roe Horvat was The Other Book and it was amazing, but Vanilla Clouds was a huge disappointment for me.