Review: Good, But Not Seven Days
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
This was a typically excellent, and occasionally very moving, book from Andrew Grey.But part of the title is a misnomer - it was not "seven days". In fact, the book takes place over 18 years, which is the only thing that kept me from giving it five stars. But that's a personal thing: I'm just not a big fan of epics that span decades.Two boys meet at a Catholic boys' school. One of them, Evan, was saved from a life hustling on the streets after his parents died in a car accident. The other, Clay, came from a more normal and affluent background. They were best friends at the school, soul-mates, as it were. They even bedded each other, finally, the last day at the school.The rest of the book is catching up to the next ten years until the two come together once again, just as Ethan, who has become a mathematics teacher, adopts a young boy in similar circumstances to his own - both parents died just weeks before.There is priest sexual abuse, a flirtation with straight marriage by Clay, other conflicts, but this book about two gay men, the children they bring into their lives, and paying the debt forward for what gifts they received ends, of course, in happily-ever-after. No surprise about that, it is, after all, an Andrew Grey novel.It's a pleasant diversion and, like all Andrew Grey novels, well-written with tons of interesting characters and moments of both tears and joy.