Love and Lint Rollers

*Review written during the COVID-19 emergency. My emotions are all over the place, and my rational mind is on hiatus.This was okay, but when my emotions were more deeply engaged during a scene between one of the MCs and the kitten he needs to re-home than during the scenes between the two MCs, there's something that doesn't quite work. Thom and Dean are both appealing characters, but I didn't feel a lot of chemistry between them. They seemed better suited as friends than as two men falling in love. I give Harper credit for incorporating chronic illness (Crohn's Disease) into the story, but another recent book I read did it better (Jay Hogan's [b:Digging Deep 49385118 Digging Deep (Digging Deep, #1) Jay Hogan https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576635614l/49385118.SY75.jpg 70500746]). Still, as an aspiring Cat Lady, I can't help but appreciate a story that features one MC with multiple cats and another MC who is a caring veterinarian. It was also interesting that Thom was a little north of 50 years old, and came of age during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, which gives him a unique perspective on the growing homophobia in the US since the 2016 election. I haven't read anything of Kaje Harper that I didn't like, but I've read several books of hers that I loved more than this one. This book was free on Smashwords in March 2020, and I appreciate her generosity.