Review: What a sweet story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
This story, besides being utterly charming, is a great value for the money, being over 200 pages for $3.  I have a weakness for sweet, clueless guys, which one of main protagonists, Sam, definitely is.  The story starts at a point where the two main characters have been friends and neighbors for seven years, and finally are starting to figure out they want to be more.  Sam is "straight," while Luke has always been gay.  It also gives a POV from Sam's son, Jeremy, who is at 15 is struggling with a romance of his own.  Sam became a father at 15 himself, and there is quite a funny storyline about how his mom (who has been friends with Sam for years) and dad try to make sure he doesn't get anyone pregnant and follow in their path (and Jeremy's convuluted plot to foil his parents' interference is what he hopes will be his sex life).  Luke and Sam are defintely the main focus of the story, though.  The fact of why they could finally realize their attraction to each other is believable because of their circumstances. Sam has been exhausting himself for years trying to work to support himself and Jeremy without hardly a high school degree, and obviously hasn't had much time to date and figure things out.  Luke isn't some angsty guy who's been waiting for Sam for years, either, it takes a epiphany for him to realize his feelings run deeper too.  So that lent itself to a much more believable plotline.  All in all, a gem of a story.