Review: Josh Lanyon, you rock!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
This story lived up and beyond my wildest expectations. After reading it I felt totally wrenched and smoothened at the same time. Josh Lanyon's books always make me emotional, but rarely has he put me through as rough ride as Tim and Luke's stories "In a Dark Wood" and "The Parting Glass". I feel like I'll have to learn to breath normally all over again after all the hype, misery, relief, shock, panic and euphoria this story made me experience.I absolutely don't want to write any spoilers, so I'll only say this: I couldn't possibly have enjoyed it more. I cried and I laughed and I highlighted so many great lines that my The Parting Glass ebook pages look alarmingly like a yellow-white-striped zebra. This was the most intense reading experience I have had for a long time -- maybe never. Or at least never after Adrien and Jake.The thing is that I'm IN AWE of Josh Lanyon's ability to mix grief and humor. Trouble and delight. Loss and hope. There is no one else who can write it quite like he can. Reading through The Parting Glass was like walking along a beach scattered with lovely sea shells. If Lanyon's sentences were those sea shells I would have my pockets and hands full of the them by now -- I want to pick them, carry them home, keep them and I want to look at them and admire them knowing that whenever I do, they'll give me joy.This story was about love, forgiveness, respect and courage -- and how sometimes the most difficult task of all is to forgive ourselves, to love ourselves.The Parting Glass will be such a wonderful re-read. And re-re-read. And re-re-re-read. And -- oh well, you got the picture.Josh Lanyon, you rock!