Review: Emotional, beautiful and heart-wrenching
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
Oh wow, what a fantastic continuation of Jack and Andrew's story. Amazingly this book is even more emotional, even more powerful and even more heart-wrenching than the first. At the end of Pray the Gay Away Jack's preacher father discovered his son was gay and it was clear he would go to whatever lengths it took to 'cure' him. So, he sends Jack away to a 'gay camp' which quite frankly is a terrible place where in my opinion they use abuse to 'rid the gay away'. Of course Jack is 18 so he didn't HAVE to go, but when his father threatens to harm his younger brother Billy if he doesn't he was left with no choice.Then we have Andrew. After moving in with loving and supportive foster parents the time has unfortunately come to be reunited with his parents. When their efforts to pray and literally starve his gay away remain unsuccessful they too step up their punishments.I won't go any further into that because I don't want to spoil anything, but what these young men go through, the struggles and the physical and emotional pain is gut churning. Their love for each other is evident. It is strong and pure and they deserve to be together, to be able to love each other in the same way anyone else would. The sex is hot but it is so much more than that. It's beautifully written and captures the pure intensity of the emotion they share together.As yet we still don't have a happy ending for Jack and Andrew, but the end of the book fills me with hope. I need their happy ever after as much as those guys deserve to live it. I am in love with this series and Sara York has found a new lifelong fan!