Review: As if this book were written for me...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
"Across the East River Bridge" was recommended, as many of my Kindle purchases are, by a fellow reader on AfterElton.com. It took me a little bit to get into the story--at first McMurray's writing didn't grab me; but then the story did.Finn and Troy are young historians of Gilded Age New York; they're competitors, who have fought with each other, professionally and personally, for over a decade. Problem is, they're also strongly attracted to each other. When thrown together by chance in the Victorian house where Troy is a curator, they begin to wonder if their collaboration might not in fact have been arranged--by ghosts.What starts out as a classic setup for a screwball comedy in the "Bringing Up Baby" mode (Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn) turns into a ghost story/romance that pulls the reader into the lives of two very different couples struggling to figure how to be in love.I like a good ghost story, and McMurray delivers one quite different than any I've ever encountered. She also gives her readers insight into the realities of gay life in the Gilded Age, as well as the struggle to take ownership of one's own life in order to give in to happiness.This is my first McMurray book, and I'll surely be reading more soon.