Review: So good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
I really enjoyed reading The Chalk Butterfly.  My heart ached for Alexander and his deepening sorrow of living with his condition.  As another reviewer pointed out, the author has done a fantasic job of detailing this without either going overboard into morose angst, or glossing over and thereby diminishing how this affects him.  It is a fine line well drawn.  While this is how the book starts, and the issue is not one to ever go away, that is not how the book stays - it is constantly moving forward with improvements for them both.There is an age difference between them, but you do not feel it while reading - it just is - and Alexander and Daniel are a wonderful couple together, each bringing & giving to the other that intangible somthing that is missing in their lives.Loved the witty repartee between the characters, Elijah and Alexeander for example, but in particular Daniel and Alexander (once he overcomes his shyness). Some of the dialogue had the flavour of......I am struggling here, like a Noel Coward or Oscar Wilde play perhaps?  Slightly biting, gentle sometimes self deprecating humour.  Daniel was great in this respect.  Some of the wording in their own internal dialogue also had a slight 'old world' feel to it, which was quirky.  Loved the pen too, and its little side representation!I understand this was a trilogy, but I don't see where the breaks would have occured, the story flowed and was a good novel length.  Writing was solid, a few typos here and there but nothing to really detract from a very solid and well written story.  (anther reviewer mention continurity with a grey suit then blue.  He was wearing a grey suit, but the cat hair was on his blue long coat)After I finished this book I looked for more by Audra Red - however as most were along the lines of 'Here pussy pussy - Billionaires sex slave" and 'F... ing my brother" (really??? this is the same author!!!)  I think I will wait for future works if they are of this calibur, although I have put Private Property on my wish list - no reviews on it yet for me to know what I am getting into!!