Review: Lovely
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2013
The Story Guy is one of the best things I've read in quite a while.  That's odd, because I usually hate the use of present tense in fiction.  It really works here, though, because Ms. Rivers' writing is so skillful, we experience the ups and downs of Carrie and Brian's fledgling romance from moment to vivid moment.Both the main characters are intelligent and self-aware, and the secondary characters do not cloy.  Carrie's friends support her in practical ways, but they have their own, off screen lives, just as real people do.  Sometime the friends of main characters exist only for plot purposes, but Justin and Shelley are interesting people in their own rights.I can't really say more without giving things away, but I really enjoyed this little novella.  It made me cry, which is a rare thing for a book to do these days.