Review: Characters stay with you for a long time
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2013
I really like False Start having read it a number of times. Chapel is a very talented exponent of the novella where through only a handful of scenes a lot is explored and in this case resolved. Switching points of view we cover the false and aborted start of Tucker and Whit's relationship in college to the now of ten years later when Tucker through the depth of his unhappiness propels himself out of the closet towards the ever confident in his own shoes, Whit. Like Chapel's other novellas the characters stay with you for a long time because they seem so true.