Review: A little horror and romance within a coming-of-age novella
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
This story was not what I was expecting, although in the end it delivered a little bit of everything.  There were traditional paranormal, romance and erotic elements, but the heart of the story is about the growth of a young man as he struggles with his attraction to and need for his best friend.  The protagonist works through the difficulty of being an adolescent guy navigating the rough waters around friendship, sex, and love in same-sex relationships, all in a setting with a potentially horrific, paranormal twist.  The story moved very slowly for me, but I found the ending to be strangely satisfying, with a potentially heated relationship being explored in a very uncertain world.