Review: AMY HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!  DO NOT MISS !!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2011
Talker by Amy Lane was one of the stronger pieces she has written this summer. The story is not for the feint of heart. I reviewed the novella Talker this summer, and today she has added to this wonderful story a sequel novella called Talker's Redemption.Looking at this through a reader's eye, Ms. Lane followed up their story just a little bit farther, and I am thankful to her for the courage to do this. So to catch you up:Brian Cooper and Tate Walker met on a Track Tour Bus, and the stars all aligned in the sky that day. Brian was a thrower for their school track team, and spoke to no one. He went to school on a scholarship, home schooled by his aunt, and always had very little to say, believing he was dumb.Tate Walker (Talker), Mohawk hair, studs in his ears, flamboyantly gay, is a runner for the team, with a tattoo running from his hairline, down his face and neck. These tattoos are hiding physical scars that were inflicted by a fire when his mother fell asleep smoking a cigarette, while drunk, holding him in her arms as an infant. These scars are not only on his skin alone, but run deep into his soul. Talker has no self worth, Brian cannot speak. How will these two find each other???  The moment Talker sat down next to Brian on that bus it changed both their lives.Their friendship grew, Tate talked and Brian listened. Brian was heterosexual, and at this point he started seeing Tate in a different light. When Brian finally gets up the courage, and was about to say `I am Gay, and I love you', Talker is raped, and in his pain tells Brian `he had hoped from the moment he saw him that Brian was gay... but now at this minute he is so happy he is not, because Brian is the only one he has ever felt safe with.'Talker's Redemption shows us secrets that loved ones keep hidden, sometimes come back to bite.  Unbeknownst to Tate,  Brian found his rapist Trevor, and beat him bloody. The couple are still seeing the school Psychologist, Dr. Sutherland, to help Tate peel back the layers of his rape, and realize he did not ask for it, he said No!Brian is jumped and beaten by Trevor and two men, with pipes and chains in retaliation, and lays in the hospital battered. Tate was there, and Brian sent him for help, trying to protect him. The police want to know what happened. Tate has decisions to make, through his pain, his love and his fear.Again Amy Lane writes about over coming your wildest fears and your darkest nightmares. Just when you think you will stop breathing from the hurt and the pain of this story, you are thrust into someone growing up much farther than your, or even their own, expectations.Talker was good alone...Talker's Redemption made it perfect.Review by Gloria LakritzSenior Review and Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild--------------------------------------------------------------------------------