Review: takes flight
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2011
When you've read a lot of m/m books,  certain topics appear repeatedly,  and you start to take them for granted.  For one thing,  sex  happens,  fast and often,  in romances,  and is often the glue that makes the men get to know each other.  This book is refreshingly different,  in that both men have emotional histories which makes them diffident.  Stuart is recovering from the loss of his lover Brendan,  who is described so lovingly,  that he is another character in the book.  Dustin (never Dusty) and Stuart move slowly,  almost awkwardly,  into a flirtation.  There are months between meetings and even when they start to have sex,  they take things slowly.  It was a really gentle,  human story,  completely believable and without external drama or werewolves or murders... it just grew and grew until we were yearning for them to get it together.I highly recommend this book, as a realistic and beautiful love story,  between 2 really normal,  interesting men.