Review: An emotional, gorgeous read - Josh Lanyon does it again!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
I just finished reading The Parting Glass & Josh Lanyon has done it again with this moving sequel to In A Dark Wood!  This is just wonderful!  IMO, there is just no other writer, in this genre or any other, who evokes such keen empathy for what his characters are feeling.  My heart literally (and I do mean literally) ached for the 2 main characters, Tim & Luke, former lovers who still care deeply for each other but have been parted by past mistakes & misunderstandings interwoven with Tim's struggle with alcoholism.  Both characters are so movingly vulnerable.  The opening scene where Tim & Luke unexpectedly run into each other after 2 years apart conveys a rollercoaster of emotion in a few sentences.  At the end of that scene, when Tim abruptly walks away, the single word "Tim." from Luke somehow conveyed such hurt it made me tear up - and that was just the beginning!  Tim's daily struggle to remain sober seems so realistic; the fear inherent in addiction is made poignantly palpable here in a way I haven't read since Josh's wonderful "Come Unto These Yellow Sands."  And of course, as always with Josh Lanyon, there is also humor woven through the story, including one hysterically absurd run-in with a gun wielding crazy-woman that had me breaking out into snorts of laughter after every time I thought of it for hours after.  This was an emotional, gorgeous read you really don't want to miss!