Never read a book from this author and I’m glad I did it. It’s a common story but still heartwarming.
Having both characters POVs makes a is interesting, this way the reader knows both perspectives and can easier understand the story and their feelings.
This book focuses not only on their relationship but also on the importance of family. It’s sad when the family is against and, in this particular case for being a homophobic family. The reader gets to see the two sides, a family that accepts and respects and a family who doesn’t, making that family member live with uncertainty and not being at ease.
We see the barriers they have, how they overcome them, and how they heal their relationship. Still I think some parts were a little too quickly, for some unfinished business for years it was fast. Even so, all this story between these two men was enjoyable and emotional reading.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a copy to read and to give an honest review on it.

This story is about a guy having to move back to his hometown in order to take care of his ailing father and ends up rekindling a relationship with a guy he had been in love with since they were kids.

Overall I thought the book was cute and the two main characters, Nick and David, had a believable chemistry. As for plot, not a whole lot went on really but at the end I'm glad that some kind of resolution happened with Nick and his mother (Nick's family was opposed to him being gay). Yes, there are some trigger warnings and hate speech against the lgbtq+ characters BUT I liked how the characters handled the situations and grew as individuals in their community.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes friends to lovers romance, family drama and some steamy scenes that will make you blush.

4/5

This was a very heartfelt, sweet (and steamy!) second chance romance. I really loved the chemistry of the characters. Their trials flowed naturally and didn’t seem contrived. My biggest issue was the quickness in which they reconciled. The way the end their friendship was alluded to, I thought something worse had happened. It essentially only took a brief chat and they picked up where they left off 10 years prior. Kind of anticlimactic but things progressed nicely after that. This was a very well written story - looking forward to reading more by this author!!

is there anything better than a gay farmer? how about a gay farmer and his artist bf getting a second chance at love after screwing it up the first time? not to mention they were childhood friends so there is so much history there! so much!

i really liked all the characters and the whole feeling of the book was so soft and romantic. i think maybe it was a bit too soft though. the "conflict" and resolution were almost nonexistent. there were definitely other issues the author could have pushed to move the story forward in an exciting way, but instead they opted to take the most anti-climactic course. which is fine i guess if you're into low or no angst. i just need a bit more of an emotional pull to keep me engaged.

what i really wanted to know was what was up with anna and jenna and also lexi? will there be another book that addresses that stuff?

Review excerpted from my blog post over at PanCis LGBT2SQ+ Romance Reviews (https://pancis.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/love-on-the-hudson-by-k-d-fisher/)

Overall Rating: 3.5 stars

Library recommendation: Recommended for public library LGBT2SQ+ romance book collections.

Warning: Hereafter, you chance spoilers. I will try never to reveal major plot points, but to review any book, you must reveal some parts of the story.



Number of titles I have read by this author: 1

Love story speed: Fast; although there is strife, it’s basically instalove (because of pre-book shared personal history)

Relationship dynamics: The Estranged/Reunited Childhood Best Friends

Sexual content: Oodles; “on-screen,” explicit, and romantic

Gender Identity: Cis (H1) / Cis (H2)

Sexual Identity: Gay (H1) / Gay (H2)

Triggers: Homophobia, including from parents and other family members; parent illness; recounted sexual assault (of H2, not by H1); survivor’s PTSD (H2)

Acceptance Rating: 2 stars

Acceptance Rating Explanation: There is a lot of familial non-acceptance and homophobia, homophobia from the general population, denial language, closeting, etc.

Grammar/Editing: My ARC had some typos, punctuation omissions, and one section that seemed to be missing half a sentence and perhaps another paragraph.

Review: This evenly paced, dual-POV story begins in a period when David and Nick are estranged from one another, but their relationship is very quickly reinstated and escalated into a romantic relationship. David and Nick face their fair share of adversity, principally from Nick’s family. David is high strung, his emotions swinging wildly under stress; and Nick has been denying his sexuality so long that he struggles a lot with not only the relationship becoming public, but also with jealousy, self-doubt, and PTSD. A fair amount of David’s attempts to help Nick through things read like an LGBT2SQ+ counsellor’s manual – and David has been one. This is fine, to a point, but the narrative feels a bit clinical in places, rather than romantic, as a result.

The supporting characters in this novel are well-developed and some are given their own plotlines, though experienced through the main characters. While this isn’t a series, there does seem to be the opportunity for one, with several interesting supporting characters whose stories I would be interested to read (e.g. Ben and Marc).

Overall, a satisfying read.



Full disclosure: I received a free advance review copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Sweet, romantic, and hot as hell, I enjoyed every moment of K.D. Fisher's Love on the Hudson. Fisher does a marvelous job with this second chance romance, and poignantly touches on subjects like coming out and family conflicts. Warm and cozy, with erotic love scenes which will knock your socks off, Love on the Hudson is amazing!

When David moves home to care for his aging father, he’s surprised to see how much the town has changed in the ten years he’s been living in Chicago. Fisher paints a charming picture of a small, artistic town in upstate New York and I loved reading the descriptions of farmers markets, the colorful townsfolk, and the pastoral surroundings.

David’s community is not the only change for the better though. Nick, his childhood crush, has a new career and is finally coming to terms with his orientation. I loved watching these two navigate their way through establishing a new relationship, and luckily Fisher doesn’t make us wait too long.

Beautifully written, with just enough angst to make me happy without breaking my heart, Love on the Hudson is the perfect book to curl up with a cup of cocoa or a glass of wine and enjoy!

Very heartbreaking yet romantic. It makes you feel for each of the characters. If you don’t cry a bit when you read it, you’re not doing it right. 5/5 stars

I thought this was pretty good if not a little slow at times. Overall a good love story ( m/m). Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

I couldn't stop reading this book - at work, in the car, everywhere. I loved David and Nick. Nick and David have a complicated history with each other. Friends turned lovers during their younger years - but ultimately, Nick being very closeted about his sexuality drove them apart. And although both moved on with their lives - in very different ways - it is clear that neither ever really got over the other.

Overall - I think this book is as much about Nick and David coming together again as it is about accepting yourself and the changes that come with life. Since high school, Nick has come a long way towards accepting himself as gay (even if he wasn't comfortable coming out fully to his family and friends). For Nick, accepting himself and not needing his parents (particularly his mother's) acceptance has been a long road. Clearly he needed David to push him over the edge into being openly gay. For him, coming out effectively meant losing his family. I really just wanted to give him a hug most of the book and tell him that his Dad was an asshole. For David, he had to come to terms with his life not being the academic, PhD life he had initially started out on. He had to find his way as an artist without feeling like an imposter and like he wasn't successful by focusing on art instead of a more academic type of career.

I loved the story and would love to see the author write more about the other characters introduced in the book.

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley - but these opinions are all my own!

David left for college a broken young man trying to build a new life. Coming home to care of his father, he must rebuild again. Past loves and friendships become new again and then he must choose.

Nick is still struggling to get his life started. Starting over after his divorce, he soon finds out his childhood best friend has moved back. Can he repair the hurt he caused and allow them to start over?

This was a complete slow burn. The story moved at a slower pace than I usually like, but I loved it all the same. The characters were sweet and sexy, and easy to fall for. Rooting for them to be together seemed right. I loved the honesty and richness to the story.


***This copy was provided by Netgalley and its publishers, in exchange for an honest review.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I wasn't a huge fan of this book. It came across to me like it had no direction or momentum pretty much ever. It was like stuff happened for the sake of happening, and it honestly bored me after a bit. There was no real tension either in Nick and David's relationship or in life outside their relationship. Everything just kind of fell together without any real effort on anyone's part.
[This includes Nick and David's relationship, where they got together so quickly after Nick treating David pretty horribly years ago. The same could be said of Nick's relationship with his mother, which went from "don't call me" to "I'll come to your wedding" with no conversation in between, it seemed. It just seemed a little unbelievable to me. ]

[Also I didn't really understand David's job situation at all, from how/why he left all of a sudden and with no regret to his new career as an artist, which seemed kind of random to me. (It might not have been, but I just felt this disconnect and confusion about his career, which wouldn't normally be an issue, but the book kind of focused on it a lot, so it spotlighted that I didn't really understand what was happening there. ]

[Last random spoiler, I promise, but I also don't get the point of showing Lexi as bi and interested in Jenna or the relationship with Anna and Jenna in general. Neither of those subplots went anywhere and it didn't seem like there was going to be a book/novella about that story, so I was once again left confused.]

Even though I wasn't a huge fan of how the relationship came about, there were plenty of sweet moments once they got there which I really enjoyed. Once Nick found himself, he was also a really great guy. He was patient and thoughtful and kind of adorable in that gentle giant way.

Overall, although there were some sweet, fluffy parts to the romance, I felt like the book took forever to get nowhere. It seemed to lack direction and didn't engage me as much as I would have liked. It was also a bit less realistic in terms of how it handled relationships than I would have preferred and left me confused with a lot of questions.

I received a complimentary advance copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley. All comments/opinions are my own.

This is a very sweet second-chance-at-love romance. The two main characters had great chemistry and I enjoyed their backstory. The last third of the book, in my opinion, did drag on a bit and could have been edited down to a more crisp finish.

Love on the Hudson turned out to be quite a pleasant surprise. Fisher has taken a seemingly generic romance trope and made it her own. The overall tension in the story was palpable without becoming overly dramatic. The two MCs, Nick and David, felt real. They were level-headed for the most part but occasionally let their emotions get the better of them. Still, they tried their best, even when some things don't end up working out.

Thank you NetGalley and NineStar Press for providing me an ARC in exchange for a review!

In one word: disappointment.

It started with the style I didn't really enjoy. It's well written, technically, but it somehow toes the line of being boring. That's okay, thought, I could deal with that. But then my actual issues with the book showed up.

First, every third thought both David and Nick seem to have is that they're hard. Doesn't even matter what situation they're in, it's just a constant string of erections. I have to admit, it left me feeling weirdly uncomfortable. Especially reading this not from a gay author, not an ownvoices story. It kind of felt like reducing the gay guys to their most basic instincts, like being gay was only about being horny.

Second, there's a mention of past rape. Now, while I somewhat appreciate addressing the issue of men also being victims of sexual assaults, it adds absolutely nothing to the story. Nick already struggles with a lot in his life and it's just another burden for him. For what? He's traumatized enough as it is, having grown up in a homophobic household. I don't understand the need to include this plot line.

Third, we have Christopher, the bad ex-boyfriend, admitting to cheating and having threesomes. Again, this adds nothing to the story and feels more like a moral teaching that sex is good but only in certain circumstances.

All in all, there are too many things I don't agree with in this book to make me continue it to the very end.

David Webster suddenly finds himself back in the small town he grew up in trying to avoid his unhappy memories. He still can’t forget his best friend Nick Patras who rejected him when he was most vulnerable. We follow the couple who are trying to get past their past and rekindle their friendship in difficult conditions. Touching and also scorching. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

It is a good romance story but, in my opinion, a little predictable. I like the setting in a small town and I think the author succeeded in describing the atmosphere but I think both main characters were a little stereotypical.
Thank you to NetGalley and NineStar Press for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Love On The Hudson is a good old-fashioned M/M love story. Though there are tough external issues and conflicts that come in to play, the focus is really on the blossoming love and bond between two old friends (lovers) and how they come to be. Both men, Nick and David, are very well-developed characters, fully realized with great care by first time author K.D. Fisher. Both bring their own personal stories and back story that challenge them together, as a couple. Fisher has filled out this lovely story with the beautifully written characters of Anna, Hector, Jenna and David's all-supportive father. I really loved the merging stories of art and artist and farmer and gardening told against a small town backdrop. The steamy scenes between David and Nick strike just the right balance with the overall story for its intended audience. I look forward to future tales spun by K.D. Fisher in perfect detail.

I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

"Love On The Hudson". KD Fisher. LGBT Romance, Novel, Fiction NineStar Press. Sexually Explicit. - Friends as children and following graduation, David goes to New York And, Nick marries. A family illness brings David back to his home town and leaving his life of art and cultural behind. Nick has divorced and is now a farmer. This is a story of coming out, the bittersweet gay love in a small town, family relationships and acceptance.

A well written and engrossing story that made me smile and root for the characters.
I liked the well written cast of characters, the setting and the plot that kept my attention.
It was a good read, recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.