Review: gripping
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2013
An amazingly moving story of two men ,who as children, live through horrors no one should have to even contemplate.  Fate brought them together as toddlers and from that brief encounter to the years of torment and abuse, to finding each other again in high school.  They love each other.  They don't always trust it but they always feel it.  Jamie's life is a portrait of horrifying abuse at the hands of his own parents and later buy ignorant bigots and even one time friends.  Tammy is abused sexually by his uncle and is so starved for male affection doesn't even realize its wrong.  These two damaged men find a love that will bring them through some terrible things and make them stronger for it.This book is not easy to read.  As I read about Jamie and Tammy's abuse, I had to stop and think that this isn't just Fiction.  These atrocities go on everyday all around the world.  From child abuse to hate crimes.  Sexual assaults and murder of children and brutal beatings of gay and transgender youths and adults. Often times ending in their deaths.This is a book that everyone should read.  These may be fictional characters but they are real life for some.Read it, share it, talk with others about it.