Review: A sweet story of a first and forever love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
This book is the lovely needle in a haystack I have been looking for.  I have now read scores of gay romance novels and written one.  I have grown weary of every gay love story costing at least one character in the book a gay bashing within an inch of his life, being thrown out of his family, a suicide, over the top newspaper headline homophobic acting out. Yes those things do happen with morbid repetitive and regular occurance in the real world. Does that mean they have to exist between the pages of nearly every darn gay love story on Amazon.com?  I for one don't think so.  I think that when I read a romance novel I want there to be more romance and less violence and less reminders that in the "real" world terrible things still can and do happen to gay boys and men who dare to love each other.The main characters in this world meet, find attraction and romance, sex and love at the tender age of nineteen. Neither of them have labeled themselves when they begin their journey on a bus, a great metaphor for the road they will take together in life.  Yes, there a couple of bumps on the road but nothing that takes away from the gentle unfolding of their caring for each other above all others.  The book kept me up to the wee hours to finish and left me smiling. I am still smiling this morning as I write this.  My thanks to the author for allowing me to escape from the headline horrors of the world into a tale of new and committed love. If only for a couple of hours. Call me crazy or a hopeless romantic but I think that in today's world there can be stories like this in real life as well.