Review: I love this couple, the atmosphere and the setting!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2011
I love Josh's Snowball in Hell. It is much more than a well written mystery murder.I enjoy the intense and bleak atmosphere during the 1940s war time, when life is cheap and survival is unsure, when sodomy is punishable with imprisonment and a man loving another man is just totally unacceptable.This is the predicament Matthew and Nathan find themselves in.Josh has created 2 very appealing and immensely likable characters. Nathan is such a complex person. His inability to deal with his sexuality resulting in a self destructive mode is both sad and touching. His anonymous sexual encounters are dark and disturbing. Then there is the homicide detective, Matthew, a hunk of a man who has lost his wife. Lonely and deeply in the closet, he could be Nathan's salvation if he would only accept himself. Theirs is one intense relationship, filled with bittersweet and passionate moments, their confrontations deeply moving. Certain scenes really get to me.The mystery murder keeps me guessing till the end but it is these 2 characters and the development of their love which hold me spellbound. I find myself rooting for them to be together from the very moment they met.I am satisfied with the ending but I just want that little bit more and then much more. Glad to know my wish is granted as one reviewer has said we will hear more of this couple in 2012. Hurry up Josh!