This book was sent to me by the author for review.
John is alone and wondering what has happened to his love, Charlie, and his little girl, Cassie.
John has a very good job and lives with his lover, Charlie in a beautiful home in upper New York. John loves coming home every day to house-husband Charlie and the little girl that they worked so hard to adopt, Cassie.
John is at work one day and is released from his position because of down-sizing. He is unable to tell Charlie, so he dresses for work each day and he sits in teh park as he applies for positions from his phone.
John feels that he can not tell Charlies, so he relies on his compensation to carry the family through until he can get another job.
John has plenty of interviews, but nothing is going as John would like them to, he either doesn't have enouth diversity or he has too much earnin power for the positions he has applied for. He begins to feel desperate and reverts to an old vice that had caused a turmoil between he and Charlie in the past; drinking.
We learn about John's childhood and his early relationship with Charlie and others through flashbacks. These are quite interesting and make you see the John that people both loved and disliked in the past.
This story was well-written and the plot was great. My only problem was that John was not someone I felt inclined to like. He never came across to me as strong as he should have been, having been married to a man and having fought for the adoption of a baby girl as a gay couple. I did feel sorry for him and all of the trials that he goes through and wanted very much for things to turn around for him.
There was a problem grammatically with the word "passed" being used instead of the appropriate "past".
Will definitley choose another book by Bryan Healey to read, as the writing was great. This book was definitely worth the read.
http://bryanhealey.com/
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Fall by Colin McAdam
This book was sent to me from Romance Junkies for review.
Noel & Julius are roommates at an exclusive boarding school in Canada. They are both diplomat's sons, but very different in temperament and social standings. Noel is the loner and doesn't really have many friends. Julius is the star athlete with lots of friends and a very beautiful girlfriend, Fall (Fallon).
Julius starts to include Noel in things that involve him and his friends and also starts to talk about his meetings with Fall while he and Noel are in bunkbeds at night. He shares some of the relationship problems and things that occur between him and Fall.
Noel starts to obsess about Fall and starts to fall in love with her, not telling Julius that this is what he is feeling. He becomes more inclined to listen and imitate Julius in certain things.
There comes a time after a prank on other boys in the home when Julius is gated for bad behavior, making it impossible for him to have his meetings with Fall. Noel becomes the go-between, passing notes and information to Fall from Julius.
During this time, Fall disappears. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of urgency at first, everyone thinking that maybe her mother took her to Cuba with her. It then becomes known that Fall is nowhere to be found. The police are brought in and we learn some things about her relationship with Julius and also with Noel.
This book is written from the points of view of 3 individuals: Noel, Julius & William, Julius' family driver.
Noel is intelligent and a little strange and you are certainly brought right into his thoughts. Julius is a little harder to read, not much more than thoughts. William is a base player, a little guttural and doesn't seem to have much substance.
I was really quite taken with the writing from Noel's point of view. I was made to feel that he was what we all would consider a "weird" individual. He is the epitome of the strange person that we all think about when we think about "Son of Sam", or a serial killer-type of person. There seems to be justifications for anything that he is feeling at any moment.
The only thing that really bothered me was the ending of the book. There is really no clear cut ending. We never really find out where Fall is or what has really happened to her, or who may have done it to her. Nevertheless, I liked the book and thought that it was a pull into the mind of an individual that I would not want to run into anytime soon. I was very drawn in to the mind of Noel.
colinmcadam.com
Noel & Julius are roommates at an exclusive boarding school in Canada. They are both diplomat's sons, but very different in temperament and social standings. Noel is the loner and doesn't really have many friends. Julius is the star athlete with lots of friends and a very beautiful girlfriend, Fall (Fallon).
Julius starts to include Noel in things that involve him and his friends and also starts to talk about his meetings with Fall while he and Noel are in bunkbeds at night. He shares some of the relationship problems and things that occur between him and Fall.
Noel starts to obsess about Fall and starts to fall in love with her, not telling Julius that this is what he is feeling. He becomes more inclined to listen and imitate Julius in certain things.
There comes a time after a prank on other boys in the home when Julius is gated for bad behavior, making it impossible for him to have his meetings with Fall. Noel becomes the go-between, passing notes and information to Fall from Julius.
During this time, Fall disappears. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of urgency at first, everyone thinking that maybe her mother took her to Cuba with her. It then becomes known that Fall is nowhere to be found. The police are brought in and we learn some things about her relationship with Julius and also with Noel.
This book is written from the points of view of 3 individuals: Noel, Julius & William, Julius' family driver.
Noel is intelligent and a little strange and you are certainly brought right into his thoughts. Julius is a little harder to read, not much more than thoughts. William is a base player, a little guttural and doesn't seem to have much substance.
I was really quite taken with the writing from Noel's point of view. I was made to feel that he was what we all would consider a "weird" individual. He is the epitome of the strange person that we all think about when we think about "Son of Sam", or a serial killer-type of person. There seems to be justifications for anything that he is feeling at any moment.
The only thing that really bothered me was the ending of the book. There is really no clear cut ending. We never really find out where Fall is or what has really happened to her, or who may have done it to her. Nevertheless, I liked the book and thought that it was a pull into the mind of an individual that I would not want to run into anytime soon. I was very drawn in to the mind of Noel.
colinmcadam.com
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