Review: Brilliantly done.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
This is a period piece set during WWII in Los Angeles.  Josh Lanyon paints a very vivid picture of the time with his use of the vernacular of the time period and descriptions of the people.  Brilliantly done.Nathan is a troubled man.  He's gay and has never come to terms with it.  He thinks there is something wrong with him and he is deeply ashamed.  He drinks too much in an attempt to cope and he takes risks with men he doesn't know in order to get what he needs.  He struggles with his attraction to Matt more than he struggles with being gay.  I feel awful for him for pretty much the whole book.Matt doesn't think of himself as gay.  He loved his late wife and was never with another man until after his wife died.  He doesn't seem to have a problem with the fact that he falls in love with Nathan.  Of the two of them, Matt is the more stable one.Watching their journey to each other was both exhilarating and heart breaking.  One of the best Josh Lanyon stories I've read.