Review: a really important one to read and a great story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
I agree with the reviewer who says that this is hard to review.  It's a story written by a straight female who - in the context of a fictional romance that resonates for a lot of gay men who try to conform to what's expected of them - sympathetically examines the long and rough road that gay men have travelled over the last 100 years to arrive at a point of dignity and beyond the treachery of "modern" medical science that for years consigned us to asylums and hospitals where almost unspeakable things were done to cure the "disease" of homosexuality.  And this is all done in a touching and appropriate way - it's a really wonderful story that any gay man reading this review (and anyone sympathetic to gay and lesbian folk) should grab and devour.  It's so much more than the describing blurb might lead you to think.  Kudos to Kim Fielding for writing something which - whether she intended to or not - says something really, really important.  I've not read any of this author's work before but I'm going to now - it may not the impact of this one but I owe it to her just because she wrote this.  Buy this one, folks, and learn a little while you enjoy a great story.