The Geek and His Artist, by Hope Ryan
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Simon Williams spends his lunch periods drawing his geek and trying not to think about the terrors waiting for him at home. He needs to get away from his abusive father before he suffers the same grisly fate as his mother. Because he's learned the hard way running away doesn’t work, he’s counting the days until his eighteenth birthday. Jimmy Bennet should be spending his lunch studying so his senior GPA is good enough to get him into college, but he can't seem to focus thanks to his distracting artist. When he’s given the opportunity to tutor Simon in Trig and discovers Simon’s home-life nightmare, he wants nothing more than to get Simon out of danger. This need becomes more urgent when Simon comes to school the Monday after their first date with bruises, but it takes a broken leg before Jimmy can convince his boyfriend the Bennets really want him. But the danger Simon thought was past shows up at the most unexpected time, and he must stand up to the fears he’s held so long to protect not only himself, but the man he wants to spend his life with.
The Geek and His Artist, by Hope Ryan - Amazon Sales Rank: #562227 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-04
- Released on: 2015-06-04
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Solid Effort By kwriter07 Hope Ryan's "The Geek and His Artist" is a powerful story of young love, abuse, and hope. From the first scene we spend with Simon, we understand the dangers of his home life. His father, who he refers to as The Bastard, has made his life an absolute disaster, even to the point of causing permanent damage in one of his ears. But Simon manages to find joy in Jimmy Bennet, who starts the novel pining away for Simon, though neither of them are fully aware of the other's intentions.We watch them come together, share personal first experiences and begin a relationship that really helps both of them grow. In line with Ryan's motive to provide happy endings, I think she crafts the narrative arc well. And there is constant tension with The Bastard as a looming presence in Simon's life.Unfortunately for me, I felt like the intense dramatic experience of having an abusive father kind of overshadowed the structure of the story. The horrible times are horrible, but moments in between that, kind of fall flat. Yes, we can see that Simon has an alternative to what he's used to, but I feel like the tension in those scenes dissipates quite a bit. For example, when Simon and Jimmy are talking to their friends, trying to find out what they should do about asking their crush out, I felt their respective sets of friends were almost too similar and a little formulaic as the straight friends who support their gay friend. Then, surprise that one of Jimmy's friends is bi (and hooks up with one of Simon's friends almost immediately after meeting), and Jimmy's mom is bi seemingly out of nowhere.I agree with another reviewer that the story could have been truncated about 100 pages. I ended up feeling like I was wading through highs and lows, and craved more of a middle ground--some other sources of tension other than ones that were life-threatening.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. There is a depth of character and situation I don’t often see in YA romances By Aine I love young adult stories, but I don’t get to read many that are m/m romances, sadly. If Hope Ryan’s “The Geek and His Artist” is the quality and depth that Harmony Ink is putting, I may have found a new favourite publisher. We start with watching the two young men pine for the other during lunch, their only shared ‘class time’. Now, I know how it went when I was in high school and yes, lunch was both social and a perfect time to watch someone that you were too afraid to approach (yes, I did this during many a lunch, lol). The realism was spot on and incredibly well done.Then we get into the meat of the story, the fear, pain, abuse, and hope that runs through out this story—holding you hostage until the very last page. Witnessing Jimmy fight for Simon, Simon fighting his past, and Jimmy’s family meddling was so powerful. As someone whose family took in a bff in high school to get her out of a bad home situation, this smacked of what life could have been like in my family except my family are all prudes, lol.There is a depth of character and situation I don’t often see in YA romances, but Hope pulls it off well and leaves me wanting more of Jimmy and Simon’s friends *hint Ms Ryan…. we need a sequel! If you love reading fun yet deep romances that leaving you needing a cold drink (or shower) while still being totally YA friendly, then this is a must read!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Difficult, Moving and Beautiful By Alan Arthur Katz As far as I can tell, this is Ms. Ryan’s first book published on Amazon. I certainly hope it will not be her last. I was so taken with this beautifully-written, vivid and confident novel that I went looking for anything else by this talented author. I was disappointed not to find any other full-length novels, but equally excited to see what she comes up with next.This is a difficult story, a story about young adults, months away from high school graduation, their families, and the horrible abuse one of the main characters, Simon, suffers at home from his single-parent father. Simon is a talented and promising artist, but socially inept and constantly fearful, as well he might be, considering that his father, the alcoholic, often-unemployed loser whose only pleasure in life is torturing his son, treats him as a slave, an object of derision and a punching bag. Simon’s mother died, some years ago, in the midst of a violent confrontation with his father, who was not charged because, like so many abusers, he was adept at manipulating the system, and convincing those responsible for both justice and the safety of children that he was a sweet victim of his insane wife, just as his son was a frequent victim of terminal clumsiness. Or at least, that was the excuse for his many visits to the hospital with his injured son. Child Protective Services failed, once again. Simon grew up too terrified of the man he refers to as “The Bastard” to tell the truth to the authorities. Of course, it didn’t help that since he was fourteen (or younger), the man had terrified him with stories of the physical and sexual abuse he would endure, in the system, if he ever reported his father or tried to run away. Simon did run away, some years ago, but, of course, the police brought him right back home to his abuser, to face his worst beating ever.Simon is terribly damaged, living in fear of almost everything, imprisoned in his father’s home, forced to cook and clean for him and punished (and often denied food) for an endless variety of imagined slights and failings.So it’s almost a miracle that he manages to sustain a crush, from a distance, on the gorgeous, 6’ 5”, gentle giant that is Jimmy Bennett, a geek of epic proportions (if his T-shirts are any indication). Jimmy already knows he wants to be a teacher. He gets such pleasure out of sharing information, out of seeing the light bulb go off, at making even the most difficult and dense subjects simple, clear and understandable to someone wrestling to wrap his or her brain around them. Simon doesn’t even think Jimmy is gay, but the two occasionally share a broad smile across the dining room at lunch, and at occasional accidental encounters in the halls or the library.Everything changes when Simon goes to the tutoring center for help with his trigonometry class. He can’t imagine why he’s having such difficulty when he’d always done so well at math, even Advanced Algebra, but just can’t seem to “get” trigonometry. The tutor, of course, turns out to be Jimmy. A couple of hours alone with the gorgeous, smart young man, and he begins to really get a handle on the subject that, if he fails, would jeopardize the art scholarship he needs to pay for college next year.It’s not just trig he gets help with in the relatively brief tutoring session, but, unexpectedly, his entire life. The two boys fall in love, that day, though neither would think of saying so. I mean, this kind of thing just doesn’t happen that fast. Although, in Jimmy’s family it seems to happen all the time. His wonderful parents met in high school, fell in love on the spot, married shortly after graduation and have had a loving, happy marriage for more than twenty-some-odd years. Jimmy’s older sister, Amy, did the same with her boyfriend Dirk, and they’ve been happily married for more than seven years.The boys’ families could not be more different. Simon, raised in fear and pain, despised and exploited by his father, plagued with violence and twisted by endless assaults on his self-esteem, can’t even conceive of the words “family” and “happy” in the same sentence. Jimmy, on the other hand, raised in a loving, warm household, where everyone has respect for one another, openly demonstrating their mutual affection, enjoys an easy, confident life, always sure of his family’s love and protection.When these boys fall in love, something has to give. And it does, when Simon’s father breaks his ankle with a baseball bat. Jimmy is determined to get him out of that terrible house, and away from the endless abuse inflicted by Simon’s father.Jimmy’s family backs him up. They beg Simon to move in with them. They assure him that no one has to suffer that kind of abuse and that he would be cherished and loved, like their own child, if he would just agree to move in with them. Simon has no frame of reference. He can’t imagine why any family would be willing to take him in, why any normal family would want someone as damaged and undeserving as himself. But Jimmy’s horror, anger, protectiveness and love convince Simon to tell the Child Services caseworker the truth of how he received his injuries and of his years enduring similar acts of violence.Jimmy’s love sustains him, and gives him a glimpse of what life might be like. The Bennets accept him with open arms and show him what a family could and should be. Still, he is plagued with nightmares and insecurities and terrified that his father will show up and damage or kill Jimmy and his family, not to mention himself.The largest part of this book is dedicated to the daunting challenge of helping Simon heal, of giving him a safe space, security and love. Jimmy is almost insane with his need to help, and that causes some issues with Simon, who doesn’t want to be dependent, and is terrified that once he is not so needy, Jimmy will no longer love him.This book is about family abuse and surviving it. It is particularly meaningful since the abused boy happens to be gay. As if it’s not difficult enough to survive the challenges of just growing up, gay kids also have to deal with the unnecessary and painful burden of homophobia. But “The Geek and His Artist” is also about loving families, who treat each other with humor and open affection and willingly provide the patience and understanding required to help a loved one recover from long-term physical and emotional abuse.The author admits that she likes obstacles, happy endings and stories with gay characters. Trust me, there is a reason her first name is Hope. In fact, that’s what I liked most about the book. There is stomach-turning abuse for which you will feel terrible anger, but Ms. Ryan always holds out hope, kindness, compassion and love as the antidotes. Both boys’ high-school friends are accepting and kind, and Simon’s integration into the Bennett family will move you to tears – the kind of tears you get when witnessing acceptance and unconditional love first-hand.Ms. Ryan is a perfectly wonderful writer, delivering characters, descriptions and dialogue that are full-blown, vivid and deeply developed. Despite the difficult theme, there was not one moment in which I wanted to put the book down. In fact, I read it twice, which is most unusual for me. The depictions of the badinage between family members, including the embarrassment at frank discussions of very personal matters with one’s parents will have you chuckling with familiarity.“The Geek and His Artist” is a well-conceived and beautiful book. Don’t miss it. I give it my highest rating and my heartfelt recommendation to everyone who wants to read a moving, gentle, insightful book that’s ultimately, all about love.Alan reviews gay fiction for the Suddenly Addicted... blog.
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