Review: A painting with words
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2013
For those who happen to like historical pieces, pilots and the French countryside, then this book is for you. The bonus is that you get to read a master of the English language who paints with words like Monet did with brushes. Mr. Lanyon can make you feel as if you are the stir stick swirling around in a can of paint labeled `emotion'. My only negative about the way he writes is that sometimes he gets a little fluffy for my tastes, but this is romance and it is my tastes after all.The story is of a young English nobleman, of some twenty-three years, being sent off to war as a Royal Air Force pilot. Of course the dear fiancé is left at home sending him weekly packages, which includes the London Times and a love letter. Little does she know that he is pining away for another young English lad who fancies himself a poet.We join the story after the young poet, Gene, has gone down in flames of glory and the Honorable English lad `Bat', (his call name) is in distress and broken hearted. The anguish he feels is not only about losing his love but because of the blackmailer, who thinks he knows something, and his untimely demise out or poor lad's hand. In rushes the dashing Texan to save the day.Typical Southern Gentleman that he is, Cowboy, our dashing young American Pilot, fixes it all for him but in turn becomes a blackmailer himself. To what ends you may ask? To find out you'll just have to read it for yourself. I truly hate reviewers who spoil a good story.I enjoyed the story but...there's always a but it seems...I do wish that Mr. Lanyon hand given me more of an arc and a longer story damnit. Just when I feel I'm really getting to know the characters he ends it. Damn him. To quote you Mr. Josh Lanyon, `come on, throw me a bone'! (NOT to be confused with throw a bone.)Scotty's 4 sweet pea review appears at mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.php/?p=13213