A review by shandra
Frog by Mary Calmes

5.0

Home is Where Your Heart Is

Does Mary Calmes have a bad book? If so, this isn't it. Frog literally made me so ecstatically happy I went from wanting to cry to laughing within 0-to-60. Web reminds me a lot of a character Matthew McConaughey would play: all tanned, eyes creased from smiling, Southern charm, and the ability to make everything seem natural. He's so easy to fall in love with I'm not remotely bothered everyone took to him immediately.

Some people have that magnetism about them. They just do. Web has that ability.

Cy was this enigma to me at first until his family, his coworkers, and all his friends came to Web to explain he was different because of being with the man he loved. Loneliness changes a person. Isolation can be self-imposed; I loved seeing Cy waking up to the world again as he realized Web was going to choose him, choose them, stay. He should have been the Prince Charming of the story since he's basically Doctor McDreamy with his fancy house, fancy car, and fancy neurosurgeon job, but Web was what grounded him, made him happy, made him whole.

I would tell anyone to read this book if they were looking for some genuine happiness/joy out of a read with real men who give each other real crap about living too much in their own heads. I felt as if I'd come home by the time I finished reading Web and Cy building theirs together.