Review: Just What I Needed
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
You know, I loved this book - both for what it is and what it isn't.The story of two childhood friends who come together eight years after the first of their two experiences with one another, both of them traumatized, one by war, the other by a terrible tragic crime, and find not only love - but the beginning of healing.What this book is not: It is neither Shakespeare nor War And Peace. It is not a heavily topical, political story, it is not some great insight into some universal human drama.What this book is: A great love story, a believable first-person description of PTSD, a story about family (both good and bad) and a story of fate, Kismet or Karma that brings two childhood best friends together, years later.As always with Ms. Witt, it is a well-written book with believable dialog, credible situations and just enough description to let your own imagination fill in the blanks.So, a great love story, a story that will almost certainly make your eyes well up in tears - tears of joy, plus truly likable characters. In short, a quintessential gay romance.What more could you want?