Review: What a wonderful story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2010
I easily gave it five stars. What an engrossing wonderful story.Colin Baxter has been having dreams for two years. In his dreams, he is pulled to an island house with a red door. He feels the owner in pain, and wants nothing more than to ease his pain and heal him. Every night, he has the dream, and he starts to care for this dream man that he's never met. When his best friend Jordan is getting married, he suggests that they hold the wedding in Fiji where everyone can vacation and have a great time. During a boat tour around the smaller islands, he looks out across the water and sees the house of his dreams. He immediately returns on his own to meet the owner, and is stunned that it's Marek Donovan from his youth.Characters are rich and finely developed in this story. Both Marek and Colin are very nuanced and rich characters with their own personalities. Like Yin and Yang, the two characters complement each other while remaining opposites. Colin is optimistic, Marek is pessimistic. Colin is filled with love and hope, Marek is filled with guilt, shame, and fear. The third character in this book is a surprise... the house itself. Is it merely a repository of the negative emotions Marek has been feeling, or does it have its own desires?The writing is engaging and colorful, and the plot is beautiful. Not only are the characters finely developed, but they continue to grow throughout the novel. You empathize with each character and their hopes and fears. Like their love, the story grows, pulling you in deeper and deeper as Colin tries to break through Marek's defenses and Marek lives in fear of Colin's reaction when he hears the truth. There are highly romantic scenes, and when there's eroticism, it's charged.It's romantic, heartbreaking, beautiful, gripping, sad, happy, and an absolutely wonderful heartwarming tale. Kudos to Cameron Dane for writing this!