Review: One Really Great Read!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
An author friend of mine, who happens also to be a friend of Dan Skinner, sent me this story. She was referring this to me, knowing a bit of what I enjoy to read and that I would possibly find it up my alley. Taking my friends advice, I decided it would be a Dual Review, because it would be good for a first time author to get more than one point of view. Thank you Dan Skinner for writing this, and thank you Laura Harner for sending this to me!If ever you can look back on your childhood and want to tell a story, it should be one of amazement, and innocence, and pain and growing up...this is what Dan Skinner has chosen to do, to tell us about days gone by when life was simpler; before cell phones and I Pads and 50 inch TV's. It is growing up in the 60's and two young men finding each other on a bench on the HS football field. It all started with a wave!This author, I am told, is an established photographer. Dan Skinner's photos grace book covers to tantalize sales for other writers. His cover for this book is the essence of youth, and gentleness and that is how it all started with Dave and Jeff. This story spans years of these two young men's lives, struggling to be gay, then gay as a couple, in the new changing environment of Woodstock and Nixon. Dave is a skinny introvert who has discovered he is gay and hides from everyone. Jeff is a football jock, outgoing and handsome. Their friendship and subsequent relationship is told here.Like the pictures he takes, Mr Skinner paints with words, a loving intricate story that makes your heart soar with emotion. The words he chooses like paint colors tells a love story from fumbling adolescents to mature men and we can't let the paint dry, we keep searching for brighter colors. I cannot tell you what this book did to me ...what it did for me. It took me to such hills and valleys of emotions, I would laugh and cry sometimes on the same page. The last words written give me everlasting hope.Please take this book home, and love it like I did. Thank you Dan Skinner for a memorable read...and thank you Laura Harner for sending this to me.Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild