Perfect Planning

Kiss Me Quick #Bundle 1

by Julia Alaric

Sam is a man who likes a plan. He doesn't understand why everyone gets so upset with his need to plan everything. It works well for him, and life is easier when there's a plan in place. They've always worked well for him, no matter what anyone says. Except his plans for Tristan, of course. Those always fail, no matter what he tries, and Sam doesn't know how to fix them.

Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, Romance, Short Stories, Gay, M M Contemporary

13 pages, ebook

First published February 1, 2012

About the author

The discovery at age five of her mother’s typewriter lurking the bowels of her basement inspired Julia’s first story, a moving, multi-chaptered, twelve-sentence masterpiece about a blood-thirsty blob. Since then, she’s gone on to write many vastly better spelled stories with much happier endings.

Julia finds absolutely everything completely fascinating, which is why she spends most of her time in a classroom. Her greatest loves, apart from her husband, are language, music, and history, and she makes her living via a slightly ridiculous passel of jobs centered around the three. There are rumors that, in a prior life, she even dabbled in teaching high school math and chemistry amidst her Latin, Greek, and music history classes. Her students joke that she would like to achieve a doctorate in Everything, and they’re not far wrong.

More of her writing can be found at her livejournal (username magistra17sum). She loves to hear from her readers, so please feel free leave a comment or question!

Reviews

[Ro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed for heartsonfirereviews.com

This is part of the Kiss Me Quick bundle from Less Than Three. The only thing I can say is, it’s just so cute. Sam is a planner. As in a compulsive, planning everything to the nth degree at all times kind of planner. Since he was a boy of six, everything goes according to plan, and if if it doesn’t, he changes the plan. Boyfriends leave him because he plans everything and is not spontaneous. The one plan Sam never seems to make good on is his plan to spend time with Tristan, who he has known since college, though doesn’t actually talk to. He is shy about it, and so despite numerous plans, he is unable to actually implement them. Tristan is adorable, in his own right.
The story is just light and fluffy, and happy. Proof that there is someone for everyone, if you have the right plan.

[Mandy*reads obsessively* · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5
Really cute story! As short as it was it still got the story told, and I will be on the lookout for more of Ms Alaric stories.

[Deeze · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was a delightfully sweet and tender read. Far to short of course lol.

My kind of story, but sadly more a taste of what I wanted rather than a full meal.

[Ami · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two men who apparently had been crushing the other guy for years ... a.k.a. idiots in love *laugh*. I like this trope, of course. But I wish for a liiiiiiitle more pages for this story. It's cute though.

[Arlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this. As a list person and a perfectionist, I can totally relate to Sam. Unfortunately, I also have ADD, which results in some of my most awesome ideas left in the planning stages. As a perfectionist and a planner with ADD, the execution of such elaborate and regimented plans is often so stressful that my contemplation alone of how to approach such undertakings result in projects are rarely started and almost never finished...

I enjoy how Sam enjoys his "failures", which are perfectly laid plans he was never brave enough to act on. I do this, too. That makes me a dreamer...as in "one day, when I finally...I will love it when...and then I'll be happy!

Funny, refreshing and interesting.

[blub · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

A cute short story about a guy who likes to plan everything out. However, over the years he's found that it doesn't really work for his love life and resigns himself to watch his crush from afar and spend Valentines Day alone. Unbeknownst to him his crush has other plans.


Sam and Tristan were cute characters and adorable together. It was nice to see that while they were both planners, that at least one of them had the initiative to go through and ask for a date.

[Liz Lambdin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an absolutely adorable short read. The main character was well crafted for such a short piece, and I found myself laughing out loud at his thought processes. And, of course, there was a perfect "awwww" moment at the end.

[Morgana · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Rachel Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

SOO Cute!! I just adored Sam and his planning and Plan A, B, and C. Adorable!

[qx · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Nin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super short, but sweet.