Review: A big story in a small package
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2012
Another of J. L. Merrow's fun tales...again with a great sense of place, and vivid characters that give us more than canned romance. Simon and Matt are both escaping from the confines of their world in London - but from very different parts of London and for very different reasons. The elements of the classic romantic comedy - a little farce, a little heartbreak - offer the reader the necessarily ingredients; but Merrow's sly wit and ability to create characters that are more than paper dolls makes us care about Matt and Simon and to root for them.One of my favorite details in this book is Simon's adoptive mother, who is the kind of character who could be presented as a stereotypical bad piece of work; but who surprises us by being more of a fairy godmother than an evil stepmother.