Hold Me Cyclone Book 2 eBook Courtney Milan
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Jay na Thalang is a demanding, driven genius. He doesn’t know how to stop or even slow down. The instant he lays eyes on Maria Lopez, he knows that she is a sexy distraction he can’t afford. He’s done his best to keep her at arm’s length, and he’s succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
Maria has always been cautious. Now that her once-tiny, apocalypse-centered blog is hitting the mainstream, she’s even more careful about preserving her online anonymity. She hasn’t sent so much as a picture to the commenter she’s interacted with for eighteen months—not even after emails, hour-long chats, and a friendship that is slowly turning into more. Maybe one day, they’ll meet and see what happens.
But unbeknownst to them both, Jay is Maria’s commenter. They’ve already met. They already hate each other. And two determined enemies are about to discover that they’ve been secretly falling in love…
Hold Me is the second book in the Cyclone series. It stands alone, but those who prefer to read in order may want to read Trade Me first.
The Cyclone Series Reading Order
Trade Me
Hold Me
Find Me
What Lies Between Me and You
Keep Me
Show Me
Hold Me Cyclone Book 2 eBook Courtney Milan
This is perhaps the best romance novel I've ever read.I'm STEM adjacent (my husband is a professor and I have some math background), and it was really refreshing to see characters from that world represented so faithfully and lovingly and also accurately, for good or ill.
The bisexuality/transgender stuff was glossed over; I think that's a function of the more rarified STEM world, particularly among the younger academic set. STEM people often don't inhabit their bodies the way normal people do. THings like gender are often seen as constructed and immaterial, or perhaps _too_material_ to be of much import. That, coupled with less attention to the feelings of others means there tend to be fewer hangups around the trans / bisexual thing. But I feel like the book did a great job of pointing up the way in which that immateriality is a blessing and a curse for gender-presentation as it relates to "girliness." Gender isn't the issue so much as being of the world in a time-consuming and trivial way. (Science can be sexist; but I think Jay's particular type of sexism is really common among the better men in science, and even among some women.)
Beyond that, this book had less sex and romance than the typical romance novel, but more of the clever and adorable banter; this was basically You've Got Mail for geeks. I really appreciate that we spend so much time exploring his journey figuring out what he did wrong (and that it mostly wasn't on Maria to point it out to him). In place of being told about his character, we watch how he came to understand the world differently, in a way that seemed genuine and nuanced. IMO, we so rarely get a non-trivial look at that, it was worth giving up air play to more traditional concerns. Jay's character is revealed through how he changes when presented with a problem. For me, that's fitting in the context of exploring a scientist's personality. Who he is is how he responds to new or inconvenient information.
Finally, I would think this book would be interesting to read alongside The Countess Conspiracy. They aren't the same book, like at all, but both seem to be in some way about what it means to be a woman in STEM, and how men in the field can do better. I think Countess Conspiracy is a more fantastical look at the issue, where this book is more realistic, as befits a modern novel vs. a historical.
This is the rare romance I'll read again. It's accessible to non-STEM readers, but a real treat for STEM readers. I like how the diversity feels normalized, as you'd expect of something set in SoCal. But most of all, it's really true to STEM personalities. I look forward to the rest of the cycle.
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Hold Me Cyclone Book 2 eBook Courtney Milan Reviews
I have mixed feelings about this book.
Some of them are from the tropes used "Enemies to Lovers" and "Secret Identities" are not my favorite tropes, although ironically I was writing a book that used both of them (The Sun Etherium) when I was reading this book. Apparently I only like those tropes when I'm the one writing them. -_- Anyway, if you like those tropes, you will enjoy this book more than I do.
Things I liked about it the female protagonist, Maria, is a Hispanic transwoman, a fact which is not very plot relevant. It's nice to see trans protagonists just being people in the story as opposed to "This Is A Story About What It Is Like to Be Trans". In a similar vein, the male protagonist, Jay, is a bisexual Thai-American man and that's even less plot-relevant. This stuff informs the backstory of the characters, but it does so in much the way that characters being middle-class white cis American does. Maria does have some distant-past trauma rooted in being trans her parents kicked her out when she was 12; she grew up with her grandmother, who was both loving and accepting. But it's not the focus of the book and, since Milan literally always makes her characters have traumatic backstories*, it doesn't feel like a commentary on transness per se.
* No, really, she does. I like Courtney Milan's writing but I can't binge-read her books because ZOMG ALL THE TRAUMA. I think her theme is supposed to be "even broken people can find love" but after the third one in a row it feels more like "only people who have had known TRUE HORROR AND DESPAIR can understand what love really means".
Anyway, Jay doesn't have a problem with Maria because she's trans. Jay is, however, a disrespectful elitist snob, and he takes and instant dislike to Maria because she's beautiful and well-dressed. He is not precisely a misogynist; he doesn't so much hate women as think that female-coded behaviors like "wearing makeup" and liking pop music indicate that a person is shallow and not worthy of being treated with common decency.
Jay exemplifies a certain kind of person, one who thinks that since he respects women who share his own interests, that means he is off the hook from treating people with respect when when they don't. Slowly, over the course of the novel, he pieces together that this is not actually how mature adults behave.
It's kind of exhausting. Like it really shouldn't be this hard to figure out "treat people decently" and "no, it's not okay to assume someone is shallow based on the way they look and also EVEN IF THEY ARE SHALLOW YOU SHOULD STILL TREAT THEM DECENTLY." Seriously. "Treated like a person" is not a thing people need to earn from anyone. It should be the default. Be polite. It won't kill you. Why is this so hard?
There are lots of things to like about Jay he is smart, loyal to his friends, supportive, and hard-working. But the fact that he really has to work HARD at a thing like "basic politeness" which frankly even most outright bigots can manage better than him is just ... sigh. Okay, Jay.
Maria was much easier to like than Jay; her habit of baiting Jay got a little wearing, but (a) he deserved it and (b) it wasn't that big a part of the book. Also, Maria gave me nerd-like-me feels; she is studying to be an actuary and on the side writes an apocalypse-of-the-week blog, where she researches meticulously various possible ways forms of "the end of the world as we know it" and what the world would look like after it happened. Her blog has reasonable blog-like levels of success, which means it has lots and lots of readers and earns about as much as a good part-time job. It had a good plausible feel to it.
The last 40% or so of the book is mostly Jay trying to make it up to Maria for being such a jerk in the first 60% of the book. I have always had a soft spot for that sort of thing, so this part worked well for me.
Overall, I did not love this book as much as the first in the series, Trade Me (which I absolutely adored and was my favorite novel of 2015, so this is a high bar to clear). But I did enjoy it and will be happy to read the next in the series.
This is perhaps the best romance novel I've ever read.
I'm STEM adjacent (my husband is a professor and I have some math background), and it was really refreshing to see characters from that world represented so faithfully and lovingly and also accurately, for good or ill.
The bisexuality/transgender stuff was glossed over; I think that's a function of the more rarified STEM world, particularly among the younger academic set. STEM people often don't inhabit their bodies the way normal people do. THings like gender are often seen as constructed and immaterial, or perhaps _too_material_ to be of much import. That, coupled with less attention to the feelings of others means there tend to be fewer hangups around the trans / bisexual thing. But I feel like the book did a great job of pointing up the way in which that immateriality is a blessing and a curse for gender-presentation as it relates to "girliness." Gender isn't the issue so much as being of the world in a time-consuming and trivial way. (Science can be sexist; but I think Jay's particular type of sexism is really common among the better men in science, and even among some women.)
Beyond that, this book had less sex and romance than the typical romance novel, but more of the clever and adorable banter; this was basically You've Got Mail for geeks. I really appreciate that we spend so much time exploring his journey figuring out what he did wrong (and that it mostly wasn't on Maria to point it out to him). In place of being told about his character, we watch how he came to understand the world differently, in a way that seemed genuine and nuanced. IMO, we so rarely get a non-trivial look at that, it was worth giving up air play to more traditional concerns. Jay's character is revealed through how he changes when presented with a problem. For me, that's fitting in the context of exploring a scientist's personality. Who he is is how he responds to new or inconvenient information.
Finally, I would think this book would be interesting to read alongside The Countess Conspiracy. They aren't the same book, like at all, but both seem to be in some way about what it means to be a woman in STEM, and how men in the field can do better. I think Countess Conspiracy is a more fantastical look at the issue, where this book is more realistic, as befits a modern novel vs. a historical.
This is the rare romance I'll read again. It's accessible to non-STEM readers, but a real treat for STEM readers. I like how the diversity feels normalized, as you'd expect of something set in SoCal. But most of all, it's really true to STEM personalities. I look forward to the rest of the cycle.
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