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The first of its kind, novelist Ruth Madison brings us the story of the relationship between a paraplegic man and devotee woman.

Elizabeth Foster is a young woman with a promising future. She has the perfect family in a nice neighborhood and she is getting ready to graduate from high school and begin her life. The only problem is a dark secret that she has kept hidden all her life. No one would ever guess that the quiet and shy girl has a rare sexuality. She is only attracted to men with physical disabilities.

After years of trying to make it go away, Elizabeth comes face to face with the paraplegic man of her dreams and can fight it no longer. As they begin a relationship, she works hard to keep him from finding out the truth about her initial interest. But she can't hide it forever.

Stewart Masterson was a champion surfer before he lost the use of his legs. He has come to Massachusetts running away from his past and trying to remake himself as someone new. He can't escape from his own guilt so easily, though. Only three people in the world know the truth about how he became paralyzed and he disappeared from the surfing world without his fans ever knowing what happened to him.

He is making a new life for himself when he meets Elizabeth and they start a relationship based on secrets. Together they begin a terrifying journey of self-discovery.Will Elizabeth and Stewart learn to accept the broken parts in themselves and each other? Will they be able to re-define what it means to be whole or will fear and guilt drive them apart?

The book was an award finalist in the romance category of the USA Book News's National Best Books Awards in 2009

Referenced in Savage Love by Dan Savage, Letter of the Day, July 12th, 2012

The synopsis won an honorable mention from the Byline Novel Synopsis contest

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2011/4/20
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Ruth Madison has lived in four states and done a variety of jobs, including volunteer work in disability rights. She was trained in fiction writing at the University of Rochester and the University of Southern California. She currently lives in Arkansas with her husband and two dogs. --このテキストは、paperback版に関連付けられています。

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ASIN : B004XJCKSY
出版社 : Dev Love Press, LLC.; 第2版 (2011/4/20)
発売日 : 2011/4/20
言語 : 英語
ファイルサイズ : 336 KB
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本の長さ : 284ページ

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tiggrie AKA Sarah

Didn't grab me, writing a bit lacking.

2012年7月10日に英国でレビュー済み

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First of it has to be said this book tackles an unusual and difficult subject, and kudos to the author for tackling it.

That said, this book didn't grab me at all and I didn't finish it. Even though I got it for free, it just didn't feel worth spending the time on.

Everyone is different, but for me there were two issues that were big turn-offs for me.

The first was the writing. It's not terrible - I've read much worse from authors who've had editors and proofreaders et cetera, whereas I get the impression this is a self pub/small press effort. However, it just feels like it could do with someone taking a hacksaw to it - there's too much that's not important or totally extraneous, and I found myself skipping paragraphs or just thinking "come on, get on with it!" Elizabeth didn't feel very real to me, the dialogue didn't impress me... Overall, it just felt like it needed serious pruning and polishing up.

The second is a morepersonal issue, but for me it was the deal-breaker, so I think it deserves mentioning. For Elizabeth, this "devotee" thing seems mainly sexual, and I found her lust towards the chap in a wheelchair, and then her going home and masturbating to her pictures of disabled chaps, was quite offputting. I ended up feeling like a voyeur, and not wanting to spend much time with this young woman. It's a delicate subject, and I have to applaud anyone who is not put off by the idea of being with a disabled person (as someone who is chronically ill and single, it's a matter close to my heart!), but her "pull" towards this man seemed very shallow.

Maybe it's a maturity thing: I don't think it was really about the fact that her attraction was for disabled men. I think I'd probably feel the same about someone who was obsessed with blond guys to the extent she'd gather pictures and pleasure herself over them, and go into palpitations on simply seeing a blond man. To me, it felt fake, it felt forced, and it came off more that she was after someone to feed her obsession more than anything else. To put it another way: If I read a book about someone who built a real relationship with someone with ME, that would be something I would deeply appreciate. However, if the character was obsessed with ME sufferers, and was attracted to them based on the fact they had ME, masturbated over pictures of them, etc, that person would seem like a bit of a user.

Overall then: Props for tackling a difficult situation, but I don't feel that the situation or the main character was handled all that well, and the writing could use some work. Personally, if I'd paid money for it, I'd be disappointed, and I didn't hesitate over deleting it from my archive.

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Would be a great read with some editing

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+ Highly interesting choice of topic. Although I've never heard of such a fetish, I don't doubt it is real, and Elizabeth's self-torment is palpable.
- There are literally hundreds of synonyms out there for "said", as are facial expressions. I wish the author had used them. Since language is a big factor for me, my reading experience suffered majorly. The lack of emotional narration kept me at arm's length from the characters.

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2010年12月22日にドイツでレビュー済み

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Dies ist ein außergewöhnliches Buch: das Thema ist selten beschrieben, dafür aber äußerst interessant. Die Personen haben Tiefgang und werden gut ausgearbeitet, die Handlung fließt, kommt ohne sinnlose Brüche oder mühsame Verrenkungen aus, um der Sache Schwung zu geben. Allein für den guten Umgang mit dem Thema "woher kommt sexuelle Faszination" ist es mir 5 Sterne wert. Ich hoffe auf ähnlich gute Folgeliteratur, diese Autorin werde ich sicher verfolgen.
P.S: Es ist einfach zu lesen, also keine Angst vor dem Englischen.

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The good things about the book:
1. The story and characters were atypical, something that I can appreciate as too many romance are formulaic.

2. HFN ending.

3. They were faithful to each other. No cheating and no smex with others. In fact he had been celibate for years and she was a virgin.

The problem for me is that the things I disliked about the book outweighed the things that I liked.
These things are:
1. I disliked the heroine. She chases and stalks the hero and appears desperate. These are never attractive qualities to me.

2. Too many internal thoughts by the heroine. Pages of them. It made the story drag. Speaking about which..

3. The book was boring in parts. Too many times it was telling and not showing included....

4. The lame smex scene that came after at least 90 percent of the book was finished. Sorry but by that point unless the love making is spatular I have emotionally checked out on the romance and there is no going back. It was not wowing. It was not good. It was not even decent. Rather the heroine loses her v-card & nor a big deal to her. Also it is skipped over. One minute the hero had returned from emptying his bladder and the next he is touching her breasts and then it is the next morning. For an author who loves to explain things in detail I had no idea how the hero felt about it including if he could get any physical pleasure from the act or if he came or he only could got hard if because he took Vigra or something else.
The next morning they acted like it was no more thrilling or exciting then brushing their teeth.

Speaking about that...
5. They had zero chemistry. Not even a spark. They would make out but then woukd stop because the mood was lost & so they lost interest or they had no desire to take it further.

6 While they were together at the end of this story, it appears that in a subsequent book they break up and have smex with OP. I think it is a joke that one of the follow up books is a short erotic book with a hero and OW . He brings the OW home for Christmas to meet his family and get it on. I cannot see that not only because the hero's supposedly "sexy" new girlfriend is not the heroine of this book but the smex scenes in this book were so dull and lacking that it does not seem feasible that the writer would write something hot without gaining a lot more writing experience or utilizing a good editor.

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Michelle R.

From Red Adept Reviews: (W)hole, 2.5 Stars

2011年11月11日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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I purchased (W)hole, by Ruth Madison, after seeing a discussion about disabled heroes on an Amazon discussion board.

Overall: 2 ½ stars

Plot/Storyline: 3 ½ stars

I knew going in, based on the description, that the heroine is what is called a "devotee," meaning she has a specific attraction to men who are wheelchair bound or physically impaired in some way. While I don't share this particular fascination, I don't think I need to share it in order to enjoy the book. I also enjoy a romance that is more Beauty and The Beast (with the Beast being anyone society labels different and fears without reason) than Cinderella. Love is predicated on more than prom king or queen looks and attraction that is about more than the bluest eye. So, while I realized going in that I was not the ideal reader, I felt I'd be open to the story.

The plot was fine, really, but the execution felt a little flat. The devotee angle didn't bother me, and it added an extra dimension. However, there were a couple uncomfortable moments. For instance, Elizabeth and Stewart go on a date, and she touched her foot to his foot, knowing he was unaware that she is touching him, and seeming to be excited by it. I can't say that I was comfortable with this, because I think a person has the right to know if you're making physical contact.

The other uncomfortable moment was more of a mixed bag for me. She realizes that she doesn't regret his accident, doesn't wish it didn't happen, because it's what makes him attractive to her. I understand that logically - the heart (and choice parts) wants what the heart (and choice other parts) wants, but it was still one of the few moments that stopped me short. I'm not taking anything away from the rating for his, however, because I think it's an honest feeling this character had, and a brave thing to write.

I acknowledge that, while I think I'm a good audience for this, I'm not the perfect reader, and that this might be an important book for other people to read and know that they're not alone. I know that at some point, past the half-way mark, I began to skim more, because my interest wasn't being sustained.

When I think of plot and storyline, I think of how I would summarize the story for someone who hadn't read it. When I do that with (W)hole, I think it sounds like an interesting story, and so the rest falls to the other categories.

Characters: 2 ¾ stars

I think that the author does a pretty good job explaining Elizabeth to the reader. I like her, I get how she swoons over Long John Silver the way some of us swoon over ... (Michelle pauses to consider the name she will type. It is not an unpleasant way to spend some time) ...Tim McGraw in a cowboy hat and a pair of tight jeans, I want her to be happy. However, when I say that I like her, it's a mild "like," with a period at the end, not an exclamation point. She is a good person, and so I'm on her side. I don't passionately root for her though, and I don't passionately root for the hero either - although I like him too. I should care about both of them a lot - she's had to keep her true self a secret, he's obviously suffered adversity.

I think I know them and understand them, but I don't feel for them. I didn't feel invested in their relationship. I read the end and thought, "Well, that's good." Because, you know, they're good people.

I understood that she was quite attracted to him, because the author wrote that it was so, but I didn't feel chemistry between the characters. We're told a number of times, that she likes him for more than his paraplegia, but I never felt a true draw between them, not even when he begins to accept her - I'll call it a fetish, since the author does so a number of times. He's the first guy in a wheelchair she got close to, the first man she got close to, and she's the first young woman to show interest since his accident.

Elizabeth is deceptive about her interest in Stewart's disability, but I have to say I see it as an understandable thing, and most people wouldn't have the courage to reveal that, particularly not a shy girl in her first romance.

I don't fault him his reaction either. Perhaps this is where these characters seemed most real for me.

Writing Style: 2 stars

This is the great stumbling block for me. When I question why I didn't care more, why I wasn't invested, it all comes back to the language not moving me, the words not drawing me closer to the characters. I'd read a sentence here and there and feel something, the seed of interest or enthusiasm, but none of it germinated. The language felt repetitious.

For example: "She looked at him with such trusting eyes, so clear and unclouded, with a trust that he ke knew he couldn't live up to."

While I didn't feel the passion, I felt the passion in the author. This is clearly a very important theme for her. And perhaps that's one of the problems - I felt like she was so busy sending out a beacon to other devotees, so busy trying to make the reader understand, that it felt a bit like an Afterschool Special, if it could be rated PG 13.

Editing/Formatting: 2 1/4 stars

Formatting was off, with paragraphs aligning wrong, correcting, and then repeating the pattern. Punctuation, particularly concerning dialogue, was also problematic. Assorted other errors. While none of the issues were major, they were ubiquitous. Any way that I look at this, I have to label it beneath professional standards, even though the issues would be easily remedied, because it was constantly undermining my experience. (If I had to guess on the wonky formatting, single line paragraphs seemed to set it off, making everything justify too far to the right for a number of paragraphs, and then re-align.)

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