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Can you ever truly make up for hurting someone you love? That’s what Jefferson Blythe is about to find out, although he doesn’t know it when he lands in London for a modern version of the grand tour. The trip is ostensibly to help Jefferson get over being dumped by his girlfriend, and the plan is to retrace the steps of his grandfather, right down to using an outdated copy of Esquire’s Europe in Style as a guide.

Things don’t at all as planned for Jefferson. Right from the moment he lands, he’s dogged by a woman who seems to have mistaken him for someone else. When things start to unravel, Jefferson calls George, his neighbor from childhood who was like a big brother, until Jefferson screwed things up. George comes to Jefferson’s rescue, more than once, but rekindling their friendship, or more, proves elusive for the harried young man.

“Jefferson Blythe, Esquire” is fairly classic Lanyon. At its center is a mystery that isn’t easily unraveled, by the characters or the reader. In addition there are a number of quirky secondary characters that provide a lot of comic relief, in between murders. Jefferson Blythe is a standard Lanyon hero. He’s no super-sleuth. He stumbles into the mystery and spends most of the book bumbling his way through it. George seems like an unlikely, and sometimes unlikeable, love interest, but that’s also a common Lanyon touch.

Having so many familiar archetypes doesn’t necessarily detract from the story. It’s probably why the story seems so complete at less than 200 print pages. It’s a pleasant read that will divert you for a little while.


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Jefferson Blythe Esquire edition by Josh Lanyon Romance eBooks Reviews

I really enjoyed this story. Jefferson is really likable and relatable character. The plot is a ;little implausible, but it was really entertaining and I enjoyed it a great deal. As always with Josh there is an excellent mystery at the core of the book.Unfortunately I didn't like the love interest nearly as much as the rest of the novel. I understand the reasons why George behaved the way he did but for me his reasons didn't justify some of his behavior. He was down right mean at times and it really put me off. He does redeem himself a lot by the end of the book and I would love to read a sequel.
Josh Lanyon returns to the wonderful city of Paris (see "The French Have a Word for it") this time for a suspenseful "mistaken identity" thriller. It's a classic genre that Hitchcock was also fond of ("The Wrong Man," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," and unforgettably, "North by Northwest") Just as in NbNW, the protagonist at one stage is whisked off the street into a waiting limousine and taken to see a very sinister character.
It's supposedly all about a legendary, lost Faberge egg worth millions, which the bad guys think Jefferson Blythe has.
But it's also about Jefferson finding his own identity; the more the bad guys mess with him, paradoxically the more confident he becomes about himself and what he wants in life. And the bad guys do mess with him. Lanyon's talent for slam-bang action scenes is on full display in this story. Jefferson Blythe's changing levels of self-confidence are a major ingredient in the intertwined romance, which has its own suspenseful ups and downs. An old Hollywood movie trailer would shout "THRILLS, SUSPENSE AND ROMANCE ON THE MYSTERIOUS STREETS OF PARIS!"
Sure, but here it is rendered in Lanyon's masterful prose and seamless dialogue. Don't skip this one.
I actually really enjoyed this book! I'd heard somewhat mixed reviews, so I wasn't sure what to expect, but I thought it was a fun read.

I really liked Jefferson. I thought his journey, his confusion, and his ultimate acceptance was really great and felt very authentic. I just really loved him!

I liked George fine, though he did come off as frustratingly cryptic and distant. I get why, but he went a little overboard with it, I think...

Fun settings, great side characters, and while the whole caper was mildly unbelievable, it was interesting and fun and I wasn't too bothered.

I will say that I thought the artist cameo was a little random, given that nothing really happened at all there. And, while the ending wasn't quite as abrupt as usual, I was a little disappointed by the lack of clear resolution we got with the romance.
I believe I have read all of Josh Lanyon's M/M books and this is the first one I have rated below four stars. It pains me. Why? Because the plot is convoluted and simply not believable, and the two MCs, Jefferson and George, are vacuous--something no other Lanyon character has ever achieved.

Jefferson is painfully naïve and just plain stupid about life upon a) graduating from college with a degree in family-dictated architecture when he wants make documentary movies instead; b) using the money for a planned engagement ring that is no longer needed because either he dumped Amy or she dumped him and taking a trip to Europe with the cash; and c) getting caught up in daily adventures that threatens his life at each turn. Who'd want to marry that kind of guy anyway, undecided sexual orientation taken into consideration or not.

George is Clark Kent and sometimes Superman, but always uptight about his feelings about his childhood and college best friend Jefferson, but so reticent that he simply bores you to death.

There are too many cell phones lost (the last one of which is magically recovered apparently without the author telling us how), too many saved-by-the-maybe spook incidents, and a bit of sex here and there that sometimes works.

Ironically, it's the last two paragraphs which may save the day here because, as implied, there could be a sequel. If that happens, there could be a chance that I would get to like these guys.
Can you ever truly make up for hurting someone you love? That’s what Jefferson Blythe is about to find out, although he doesn’t know it when he lands in London for a modern version of the grand tour. The trip is ostensibly to help Jefferson get over being dumped by his girlfriend, and the plan is to retrace the steps of his grandfather, right down to using an outdated copy of Esquire’s Europe in Style as a guide.

Things don’t at all as planned for Jefferson. Right from the moment he lands, he’s dogged by a woman who seems to have mistaken him for someone else. When things start to unravel, Jefferson calls George, his neighbor from childhood who was like a big brother, until Jefferson screwed things up. George comes to Jefferson’s rescue, more than once, but rekindling their friendship, or more, proves elusive for the harried young man.

“Jefferson Blythe, Esquire” is fairly classic Lanyon. At its center is a mystery that isn’t easily unraveled, by the characters or the reader. In addition there are a number of quirky secondary characters that provide a lot of comic relief, in between murders. Jefferson Blythe is a standard Lanyon hero. He’s no super-sleuth. He stumbles into the mystery and spends most of the book bumbling his way through it. George seems like an unlikely, and sometimes unlikeable, love interest, but that’s also a common Lanyon touch.

Having so many familiar archetypes doesn’t necessarily detract from the story. It’s probably why the story seems so complete at less than 200 print pages. It’s a pleasant read that will divert you for a little while.