Review: Many clever and touching things in an unconventional romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
I thought this book would make me squirm.  But it didn't, because the central character, Charlie Rhodes, is such a sweetheart, and anchors this unconventional love story with his good-natured banter.The idea that someone could have his heart broken twice by the age of 25, and then find his happy ending a decade later with the very men who broke his heart in the first place has a certain tortured logic.  Cardeno C manages to handle this so as to make it believable, presenting the first two relationships through photo-album flashbacks, and then tying up all the loose ends in a gratifyingly tidy way.  It works.  The youthful fragility of his relationship with Scott; the cultural hang-ups that taint his time with Adan - they make sense and they reflect some painful truths.