Review: Read the whole "Talker" trilogy...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2013
Of course, I am an Amy Lane whore. But this series - three novella-length novels that get progressively shorter - is among my favorites.Talker - aka Tate Walker - and Brian Cooper. Talker is a freak - mohawked and tattooed to hide scars that are physical and psychological. Brian is a golden boy, serene and solid, with a girlfriend he just sort of fell in with because he was handsome and she was there. But Brian has his problems, too - his aloofness is not from arrogance, but from an assumption that he's stupid, because he was homeschooled by his aunt.Maybe you have to be a woman, or a girly old man like me, to fall for these guys. But I don't think I'm so lame and illiterate as to just go for the romance. These books are poetic in their brief intensity. Amy Lane is the mistress of damaged men; and something in me just loves to read about damaged men. Hmmmm....The quirks that define these two young men, and the way that they're developed in the second and third little books, are beautiful to read. Maybe men don't like to read about weakness and vulnerability - maybe they want all the sex to be "hot" and manly. But Amy Lane writes about two people loving each other in a distinctive, moving way. Even her sex scenes are emotionally powerful and not mere exercises in erotic pyrotechnics.All together, these made a good long book with three distinct sections. Buy them and read them together.