I love HEAs, but the last chapter went on and on.įinally, I really dislike the present-tense POV. The men get together by 15%, and then it's just Axel fitting into Jens' family. There were so many random details thrown in. This story was just so very long, much, MUCH too long.

Something about this just rubbed me the wrong way. I guess there are hints that Axel has some interest in women, but it felt to me like he was straight for his wife. I have friends who got married and had children because of societal/religious pressure, but they were never happy and always knew they were living a lie. I don't understand how a gay man can happily stay married to a woman and have four children with her.

Jens proclaims that he's gay the second he sees Axel after they spend almost two decades apart. I wanted more tension around Jens' sexuality. What I didn't like is how quickly the guys fell into a relationship. He gets up in the morning, sees a stranger in his kitchen, and then demands that Axel make him Nutella on toast. The 6-year-old especially was really funny. I also like that the book didn't include a bunch of unnecessary drama and angst, and that Jens' kids acted like kids. The setting in Little Harbour gets a solid five stars. I am always ecstatic when a story is set somewhere other than the U.S. I love the land, the culture, and the beautiful people.

Norway is one of my favorite places on earth. Oh yes, and a man who had lost hope and another who never gave it up. He should have got over Jens Sommerfeldt years ago.Ī M/M novel full of love and family life, featuring a hord of feral children, a stolen pram, a Midwifery blog and an ill advised stint on TV. And Axel needs to stop longing for that one crush he’s never been able to leave behind. Jens, he doesn't let himself think of Axel. He loves his job as a Midwife at Oslo’s University Hospital, He’s good at lecturing and training, and now he has somehow been pushed into running “Ask Axel”, a midwifery blog on PNN.no, the parenting-site everyone in Norway trusts. This is an adventure of hope, where Axel Kleve keeps himself too busy to even stop and think. He had been with Sofie almost all his life, from the day they met at school when they were fifteen, until the day she took her final breath against his chest. This is a story about life and death, because there was never anyone else for Jens.

Little Harbour by Sophia Soames