Review: I Loved This Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
Ms. Tushmore is amazingly talented. She manages to take the reader from the early formation of a rock band by some scrappy 1980's London stoners-with-issues all the way to rock stardome and, eventually, love - all without boring the reader to death, as so many "rock" epics have done. No waiting for the good parts. All the parts are good.Her treatment of the two main characters, Brandon and Sky, is not your run-of-the-mill gay romance formula. Brandon is a bisexual who likes to wear a fox stole onstage and off. Sky is the more disciplined musician (and son of one, as well) who is, quite bluntly, asexual.The path before them is strewn with obstacles, mostly of their own making. Sky, who had never had an experience with a man before he fell into bed with Brandon, keeps up a love/hate, passion/anger relationship with Brandon until it all falls apart in one incredibly well-drawn scene in which they end up punching each other out in the midst of a live performance - for all the world to see.Both are inexperienced at love (though not at sex). Both have difficulty dealing with it honestly until, finally, at the last pages, they agree to give a real relationship a try.The writing is impeccable, the editing superb. There's not a dull moment in the entire book.It wasn't until I began to write this review that I realized I had read another of Ms. Tushmore's gay romances and loved it, as well - "Haunted Pub". And like that one, this one has a totally over-the-top ending that both made me smile and tugged at my heartstrings at the same time.This is an author whose work I will continue to watch for and read. I recommend both the book and the author most highly!