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Giving Up The Ghost | 
 enlarge | Author: G. A. Hauser
Publisher: Linden Bay Romance
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 772167
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1602020973
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781602020979
ASIN: 1602020973
Publication Date: March 20, 2008
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Product Description
The visit from beyond the grave that changed their lives forever. . . Artist Ryan Monroe had everything he wanted and then in a blink of an eye, he lost what mattered most of all, his soul-mate, Victor. Tortured by an overwhelming sense of grief and unable to move on, his pain spills out, reflected in the blood red hues of his paintings. Paul Goldman thought he'd found the love of his life in Evan, his beloved pianist. Their mutual passion for music was outweighed only by their passion for one another. They were planning a life-time together, but then one fateful night Evan was taken. Drowning in sorrow, unable to find solice, the heart-broken violinist has resigned himself to a life alone. Now it's two years later and something, someone, is bringing them together. Two men, two loves, two great losses. . .and one hot ghost. Giving up the Ghost by G.A. Hauser, you won't be able to put down!
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Giving Up the Ghost June 15, 2008
Artist Ryan Monroe has spent the past two years grieving over the death of his lover, Victor. When he meets a man he believes to be a new neighbor, he's shocked to feel attraction for the man. He's even more shocked when he discovers the man he met isn't a man at all, but a ghost! The spirit of Evan Oliver, a man killed in the same accident as Ryan's lover, is suddenly haunting him. The ghost seems to be trying to tell him something...
Paul Goldman, an orchestra violinist, has been having terrible dreams lately. He can't seem to get over the loss of his lover, Evan, and he's not even sure he wants to. Can two ghosts bring these lonely, heartbroken men together?
Giving Up the Ghost is a learning to love again tale with a paranormal twist. I really liked the idea of ghosts matching up their former lovers. I also liked Ryan, whose grief, uncertainty, and fear seemed very believable. His sweet, caring friend Amy was a great supporting character. Paul was not as well developed. He went rather abruptly from thinking Ryan was crazy or cruel to being attracted to him, which wasn't as believable. The over-arching storyline was good, but I was often temporarily confused by the jumps from past to present and from reality to dreams. The grief both Ryan and Paul felt was very well written, and I felt it right along with them. Other emotions, such as anger and confusion, were also very well presented. Unfortunately, the love the men were supposed to be feeling for each other did not come across as well. The relationship seemed to develop too quickly, and conflicts were resolved too easily. While Giving Up the Ghost dealt well with the myriad emotions of love after a terrible loss, I was somewhat disappointed by the romance. GA Hauser came up with a great story idea, however, with likeable characters, making this an interesting read overall
Cassie
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
Giving Up the Ghost by G.A. Hauser April 1, 2008
Giving Up the Ghost is not the usual G.A. Hauser's novel: no british brat and no cops...
If the blurb had not already revealed the secret, I would not have said it, but since it's pretty clear readind it... Ryan has lost his lover 2 years before on Christmas night. He is still grieving and he has no intention to stop. But someone else is not of the same idea: Evan appears on his doors and makes feel Ryan feeling long ago buried. But Evan is not real, he is a ghost: he is dead the same day of Victor, Ryan's lover, and now he wants that Ryan meets and loves Paul, his lover. It's like a gift that Evan wants to leave to his beloved and Ryan is the right man.
The first part of the book is almost all spent describing Ryan and Evan's relationship: Paul is only a name, a side character. And actually, even if Ryan is sexually attracted by Evan, the ghost doesn't make a move on him: he tries only to convince Ryan that he is ready to love again.
If I have to be sincere, of all the characters involved, Ryan, Evan, Paul and also Victor (who has a little role himself), I like best Evan. All right, he has to put together Ryan and Paul, but for all the book I waited to read of him and felt sorry for him and for his sad fate.
Ryan is a good character: he is almost funny in his naivete, he did things that you, from the reader point of you, could only think as totally wrong: had he say all? couldn't he only meet Paul, love him, and take Evan a secret? Oh, no, he has to tell to Paul all till the more little detail and risk to lose him.
And Paul? Why he is always so ready to think bad? why he has always to shut up like a clam? fortunately he is also ready to rethink and to step backwards.
Pity that we don't have the chance to know better Victor: maybe of all the character, he would be the more steady (even if he is a ghost...)
Giving Up the Ghost is a sweet romance, with a lingering taste of sadness. And reading it, try not to be too sympathetic with Evan, remember, Ryan is not for him but for Paul...
both creepy and steamy March 24, 2008
This latest novel of GA Hauser's is slightly eerie and darker than her last two. She brings two men together that have suffered a loss. The appearance of the ghosts are both slightly unnerving and yet sensual at the same time. It was a story of coping with grief but held onto the sexy romance at the same time. Touching and enjoyable.
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