Review: Enjoyable short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
The only reason why I did not give it 5 stars, was the lack of epilog. I wanted to get confirmed the hinted HEA.Noel and Robert have had one night together and it left those two (obviously quite lonely) men, longing, wondering what could have been if. But being on each side of the law made it impossible to explore the the attraction. I even wonder if Robert knew that Noel was leaving (the prolog), but that he chose to let him do it. We don't get an answer to any of that, because the whole story is written from Noel's POV and thus leaves the reader guessing what is going on in Robert's head.The whole story happens during one day. Those few hours reveal many things, but not all, of course, but it lets the reader imagine, wish and dream. As Noel does on the bright Christmas morning.There is quite inventive naming in this story. Noel (very proper name since it means Christmas) has chosen Snow as his surname. Was it to take even more distance from his family (Chernov is derived from Russian for Black) or was it for something else?