Review: A joy to read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2011
"Everything has to begin somewhere. The rolling river that grows from a trickle that threads from a pond that's fed by a spring. The fleck of dust that drifts from a rock that tumbled from a mountain. Everything has its own ancient origins, bound to the earth and the cosmos and whatever lies beyond". I think this paragraph reflects the mood of this tale very well. I would have never imagined that such a delightful story may come out of mixing two such seemingly not compatible subject - battling heroin addiction and one of the fairy tales of pretty much every person's childhood coming alive. Chris is such a wonderful character, somebody who decided to get himself clean of heroin addiction and managed to do so. Author shows Chris' pain, his everyday struggle with addiction that never completely goes away so well. We see Chris' pain, his loneliness, his determination, his desire for friend, for a lover and as blurb tells you one day Denni appears. When I started reading about Denny, I was thinking I cant believe she did that, I was not sure how succesful this fairy tale would be in such gritty realistic story, I should have trusted this writer's talent more. It is written with such delicate touch, and when story is done I was both so happy for Denny and Chris and keeping my fingers crossed for them, but I was also a little choked up by the epilogue.Bravo!