Review: Lovely story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2011
Life is a series of serendipitous moments, which sometimes result in tragedy and others in finding happiness and love. Aedin creates two mature, multi-dimensional and sympathetic characters, who are both shaped and - to the degree that they can - shape those moments. Over time and distance, and despite the demands placed on them by their jobs and, more in Stuart's case, the effort to move on from loss, their relationship slowly unfolds from instant attraction to commitment, sometimes naturally, sometimes by lucky coincidence, and sometimes through one or the other giving it a slight push and moving out of their comfort zone.Stuart is a pragmatic and humorous narrator, who doesn't like to wallow (and neither his therapist nor his butch dyke best friend, Mariluz, allow him to, when he does). Dustin is a 48-year old pilot, who participates in gay rallies but who's afraid of his mother, and who sends smiley faces in IMs. The two together are funny and hot and sensual and supportive and just about the most interesting couple I've come across in a long time.A definite keeper and re-read!