Piecing Together His Life

It was interesting to see the way these men drifted together and then apart only to be brought together again. Each has a way to enhance the life of the other.

Okay, so, this one didn’t feel like a romance for me.
We meet Colin in the beginning when he’s at a lawyer’s office, meeting his brother and sister for the reading of his mother’s will, with whom he’d been estranged…. His brother and sister were terrible, entitled, homophobic people and I suspect his mom was too, though she did leave him an unfinished quilt… So, on his way back home, he encounters a blizzard and wrecks his car…. And that’s where he meets Mason.
Mason is an EMT/artist, though he considers his art just a hobby. He’s very self-conscious about it… After seeing the car he was driving behind, slip off the road, he helps the driver and pulls him to safety. With the blizzard too dangerous to drive in, he takes Colin to his cabin and keeps him warm and safe until the storm passes and then they go on their own separate ways.
It isn’t until a few weeks later, after Colin has been searching for someone to finish the quilt, that he’s pointed in the direction of Mason. Mason declines being able to help but Colin is a bit high-handed and they kiss once, but it was completely out of nowhere for me, as was their getting together occasionally, which is only mentioned, never experienced.
There’s an art exhibit and a disagreement, but it’s all so glossed over that I didn't feel that these two were a couple at all. I actually kept wondering if it was a period piece, as Colin seemed sometimes to be from a different century lol I just didn’t warm up to him and I didn’t understand how they went from occasionally getting together to being in love and getting a HEA at the end.
There was a blizzard though, so…. I guess it’s in the theme of Christmas?
2 stars from me on this one.