Review: Wonderful. Wonderful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
One of my favorite gay romance. It's romantic, gives an insight into how all the characters met, their own families acceptance of many of the parents of their sons.  Hardships during school, rejection too.The intertwining of all the person's involved.  The love of one sister for her brother to be a surrogate for him and partner.  The rallying around of parents when their sons were being faced with hardship.As I was beginning the story, I noticed that between the typed chapters there were also chapters in italics, and wondered why the difference, but as I read more of the story, realized that the author was inept in using a different method in bringing all the characters into the story, for instance, who they were, how they met, how long they had lived together, so that I the reader would be able to enjoy the relationship of all the friends to John and Dwyer, and how their place was in the journey of these two men.The time it took John and Dwyer after a long, long, period of time away from each other to fall in love again but to take it slow as well. The reason they broke up is interesting but it can happening to and everyone of us.  But love wins out.I did see some typo errors, but, knowing from experience in working with a local print shop in making post cards for real estate agents postcards, all the mechanical spell checks and proofreading by humans, some material still was mailed out with typing errors on it.I really did enjoy reading this book, the author has a way of bringing in the book, multiple characters, who were truly involved in the lives of John and Dwyer.Mystery arose when an individual attacked Mark who was HIV positive, and was quite open about his disease, how he obtained it, but still have a loving relationship with his partner, and was accepted into this partners' family after his own family ostracized him.The topic of homophobia raised its ugly head during the story too, when a former student who gave one of her school chums a difficult time during grade and high school, and, looked down on a single mother raising her child.  It went as far that this woman, felt that it was her duty to threaten the artist with his job at the local school, if his "pornographic" art work was put on display, even though she had not seen the actual, water colors, and drawings by the artist.  It was interesting how the curator of the Art Gallery protected the artist, from ridicule by this individual, and the support of his family and friends.To me its a WONDERFUL story to read  Enjoy.  There is a surprise ending too.