A Strong and Sudden Thaw
"A Strong and Sudden Thaw" is a well-told, post-apocalyptic  romance with a distinctive narrative voice.  Combining a realistic story of  small-town struggles, prejudices, and affections against a larger tale of  endless winter and hungry dragons, R. W. Day offers readers a heartwarming  work of speculative fiction that combines the persecuted love of "Brokeback  Mountain" with the charming romance of "Big Eden." --Dru Pagliassotti, The Harrow, October 2006(8/10) Wow. An impressive debut novel. Day has created an  incredibly detailed and believable world, filled with both sympathetic and  loathsome characters. --Rebecca Buchanan, Sequential Tart, November 2006This is an excellent novel, however you measure it. It's good  science-fiction, it's a good slash/boy's love romance, and a beautiful  coming of age story. --Ann Somerville, Uniquely Pleasurable, October 2006