Review: A short but emotional story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2011
I don't know, Amy Lane writes miracles.Truth in the Darkwas so emotional, the characters were flawed and the writing was fabulous and it perfectly suited the fairy-tale mood of the book.Keeping Promise Rockwas angsty and the characters were awesome and the writing was great and it carried on a long story of friendship and love. This book is short and it stripped me as raw and naked as its characters.Brian is a wonderful person, a great and considerate friend and his inability of conveying his feelings goes hand in hand with the intensity of them. He is the narrator of the book and we see all the story through his eyes, and we get to know Tate/Talker in his words. Tate, who is scarred on the outside and on the inside, wears his heart on his sleeve and Brian can read him perfectly, because he listens to him intently, he looks at him and sees what's under Tate's tattoos and mohawk. He can distill Tate's twitching, endless talking, into its essence: Tate wants to be loved, cared for, kept safe, protected.The need for love of both characters is the center of the story and the miracle of two lonely boys who find what they need in each other is told with the simple, desperate and hopeful words of Brian. He may not be a poet, words seem to desert him more times than not, but what he has to offer is so precious and pure that it really doesn't matter what it's wrapped up with.I am not able to talk more about Talker, I just can say that he's simply unforgettable.Please, read it.