Only For You (Only For You, #1) by Chad Lane

Only For You (Only For You, #1) Reviews

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  Lori

  I rarely (if ever) one star books... but if one of your MC's is repeatedly called both Matt and Mark in the first 2 pages, well, sorry to be a cow, but it deserves one star. Grammar issues, even spelling issues, I can often overlook. But this is just lazy.
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  Jaime

  So it was pretty cute, quite a few editing mistakes. However, what is up with this recent trend lately of putting out 50 pages of a story, and then another 50, and then another at $3 each? Or you can buy the bundle for $5... but that doesn't include the 4th installment of the followup 50 pages... that's another $3. Can't I just read the story?! The WHOLE story?
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  Camy

  A very basic GFY thats a good enough read for diversion purposes, hobbled though it is by atrocious copy editing and the laziest, most abrupt ending ever.
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  Beck

  This gets one star because it was free.
  
  Dear Chad,
  
  If you have an editor, fire them. If you don't have an editor, get a good one, take all your books back, re-edit, THEN release them.
  
  Love Beck
  
  ****
  
  This snippet of a story was a real shocker ... this was the opening sentence ...
  
  "The door handled giggled with the sound of fumbling keys."
  
  ... and it kinda was all down hill from there! ... the editing was abysmal ... we had MC's changing their name from one paragraph to the next ... mixed metaphors ... switching tenses ... apostrophes were used inappropriately or were missing ... poor paragraph structure ... ellipses and hyphens were used inappropriately and interchangeably ... capital letters were optional ... and there were frequent incidences of a correctly spelled word being in the wrong spot because it kinda sounded right which completely ruined Lane's use of idioms.
  
  To compound the pain for the reader, the story was a cliché trope with little originality, written in a sophomoric, juvenile way ... *sigh of exasperation*
  
  Finally, if you decide to continue the story, because, unfortunately, this is a serial masquerading as a series, you'll have to fork out nearly $4 per 50 pages!!!! That is just outrageous in my opinion ... I would have balked at paying $1 per installment but the over-inflated price is the final nail in the coffin ... unfortunately, I can't recommend this story to other readers and I must admit, that I am hesitant to read any more of this author's self-published work.
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  joani

  Should be all one book
  
  Should be all one book
  
  I hate all these separate installments...why can't we just buy one book with a beginning and end? this was really a good story about two young men who find attraction for each other. Both presumably strait but it goes to show that you can connect and fall in love with anyone regardless of gender. I really like stories like this. There should be no labels for we all are emotional beings, searching for our soul mate.
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  Kristan

  This snippet of a story (it drives me crazy when an author releases in installments without stating that it's part 1) really needs an editor, especially near the end where typos were flying left and right. There was also some juvenile writing that made me roll my eyes. The premise has potential though.
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  Onyx

  Only for You desperately needs editing. The characterization is quite poor, and these one dimensional caricatures go through the motions of friendship while clearly falling in lust with each other. It's overly simplified and the ending came from nowhere. IMO the author should invest more effort into these free fics if they are a means to attract a wider readership.
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  Elaine White

  This was incredible beautiful. Perfect. Stunning. I love Matt and David, together and apart. I just really, really sad that I can't afford to buy Books 2 and 3 just now. Grrr! I. Must. Read. This. Series!
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  Ashley♥Alexis

  This was actually very well writtten. Story was great. Just annoying that it was a short and part of an installment.
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  Daniel

  OK, the fact that criticism of bad editing date back at least 5 years and that I just downloaded (2021) the "snippet" and they are still there? C'mon, if you invite people to review and they do, make the effort to act upon things you can change. I commented about poor editing (as have a number of others) on the first book of yours I read, Finding Him, but enjoyed your style and thought I'd try another one. And don't you DARE tell me that I shouldn't grouse because they're free. What? Because you're going to charge me for a book, you'll make an effort? You really mustn't care about your work, because, sadly, my opinion of this sort of attitude? Well, 2 stars was almost 1.
  
  The other grief: this isn't a book. Call it a novella, if you're brave, but splitting up what would likely be, barely, 3 chapters in a "real" book into small chapters does not make it "a book." It just make me grateful I didn't purchase this book. I've had enough frustration with gay fiction, buying what I thought was a book only to download a tiddler and, worse, later discover that the author finally has the balls (no offence to the many female authors writing m/m fiction) to admit that a number of these tiny efforts focusing on the same characters were in fact barely chapters and to gather the lot together as "a book" then charge newer buyers barely half the cost it was to me to have bought the first couple of "books."
  
  Now, about the "book." Wait... both in university and have no clue as to their orientation? Really? With the book set from David's point of view and (again) being so short, we have nothing but Matt's patter and body language to build his character, which make the end a bit hard to believe. Surely, furtive glances and lingering touching on his part even as he butches about might make the transition more acceptable. What? David's huge dick is all it took?
  
  I can accept David being a bit in the dark about his orientation though he at least shows gay urges (like checking out Matt's body when he can) even if unsure why he does and is confused about his body's response (probably only knowing that these should happen before a woman). Lane states David's a nerd, so likely a sheltered, limited social exposure can be blamed.
  
  But Matt the jock and suave social creature? Was he deaf in his high school locker rooms and to the likely anti-gay slurs from the gang he would have hung around with? He would have to have some insight into his sexuality by now, and if he is gay, to be harbouring fear and shame under a straight façade. But there's nothing to justify his ultimate outcome. The whole is just too... abrupt and unlikely.
  
  Shame, really. I so looked forward to this.
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  W.A. Ashes

  I’m sorry
  
  I try really hard not to give books 1 star ratings but I couldn’t rate this one any higher. One of the main character’s names changes from Matt to Mark a few times, the ending was rushed, and honestly I struggled my way through this read. I got bored with it. With the cliches used to describe things that were happening and with how anticlimactic the whole story was.
  
  I’m sorry, but I did not enjoy this one. Hopefully someone else will.
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  W.S. Long

  Fun trope explored
  
  This was a fun read in a tried and true M/M trope. The jock may be gay for you or bi, or pan. It’s the first story in a series. Definitely curious where it goes after the cliffhanger.
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  Ro

  This was cute enough but the Matt/Mark name changes and the editing issues were making me crazy. Also, I wish I had looked at reviews first because this is just an installment of the story, the very, very beginning.
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  Bob

  David’s roommate’s name is Matt. Or is it Mark? In just the first two pages his name went from Matt to Mark, then Matt again and back to Mark.
  
  As for the story, it was just ok, nothing special. This was a short story, not a novel, so everything happened quickly and without any real substance.
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  John

  Simple teen angst filled time burner. Short, and I like it.
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  Aaron Abel

  Hek ya. I will read all of Chad Lane's books. & I'm in love w/ 1. Aaron Abel
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  Maria Lentini

  Good story
  
  Too short for me but I will continue the series. I usually hate clipped books. I learned my lesson. Good grammar though
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  Alejandro Magaña

  Q risa
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  Steph

  It was a fun read with a happy ending. Writing and editing could use some tweaking, though.
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  Furio

  Jock VS Nerd M/M romance has been done before and for a reason: it brings opposite characters together which is an obviously good starting point for an interesting romance.
  
  What this specific author lacks, beside an editor, is the ability to write a story that does not read clunky and or simplistic in its development.
  
  He could also have avoided dividing a single and a very short story into three parts, the first of which is available for free while the following two are far too expensive as is the "bundle".
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  Jenny Wood

  Super cute GFY about a geeky loner and his hot jock roommate... it was a short but I've just realized there is a second one so I've already one-clicked it :P
  It's not your typical gfy in the sense that one is already gay, I think they both just discovered it by being attracted to each other.... I'm excited to read the next one.
  
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  Arlyn

  I loved everything about this. It reminds me a lot of the book that first got me interested in M/M fiction: "His Undoing", by Aria Grace. Matt & Dave are both quite lovable. I'm glad I got the bundle because I could really just read all of it tonight!
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  wordsandblankspaces

  Really liked this story and would have given 4 stars but there were so many editorial mistakes I couldn't handle it. I would like to find out what happens with these characters but I am not going to pay for something that is put together so poorly.