Review: 4.5 stars. I loved the main couple
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2011
4.5 stars.I liked very much the protagonists of this story, more than the story itself. Gavin is a historian, writing an essay for his doctorate degree where he tries to shed a different light on King Arthur and Lancelot and their relationship. He wants to find the truth behind the myth. This is his passion, together with his love for Piers. Piers is a scholar too. He is a Catholic and he tries in some ways to find a compromise and reconcile his faith with the love for a man.At the beginning of the story, when Gavin is stood up by Piers, who refuses to come out to his family and reach Gavin to spend Christmas with him, I was all for Gavin and almost despised Piers. The story is in Gavin's point-of-view and slowly we begin to see that Gavin's demands for Piers are maybe a bit selfish. Gavin comes to recognize what's wrong in his relationship with Piers after meeting Art and Lance, who rescue him after he's fallen in a cave, giving him a new life, a new prospective on his future with Piers, on what he can demand to his lover and what he can give back.As I said before, the story opens before our eyes step by step, shifting our sympathies to Piers too, and at the same time we learn more about Gavin and we are drawn deeper into a dreamy atmosphere, where everything is not quite what it seems.The plot is not original, but it becomes almost magical when infused with the holiday spirit. I think the epilogue was not really necessary, but Gavin and Piers are a very interesting main couple, and the difficulties they had to come over to gain their happiness felt incredibly real.