Est itibaren Tashtagolsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Rusi
3.5 Stars Nick is a famous author and has been tasked to stay in a haunted house for 66 hours along with his two lovers, lawyer Oliver and much younger on-line porn star Andy and their best friend and her dog. Nick is sure that it's all a hoax to attract customers, however some a knife shows up in the hallway and the hammer that supposedly was used to kill a family in the house starts appearing randomly. I kept wondering if there was other stories with this trip explaining how they got together and I did some searching and there may be other stories with them but I wasn't certain. You don't need to read the others, it's quite clear how their relationship works and references are made to past incidences of infamy for the three. This is kind of like Scooby Doo meets m/m romance. It was quite funny but there was also a hint of real mystery. On the whole when you're looking for a lighter ghost story this is a good choice and I enjoyed giving it a read.
First, my book has a different cover that shows an androgynous child with an eerie grin... this cover is MUCH more appropriate. Second, this was a good book about a child born as a hermaphrodite and how both the child and her father cope with her fluid gender identity. I enjoyed the book, but I thought that it was part a critique of a gender dichotomy, part a story about a father dealing with his loss of a "son," and part a book about a child dealing with society's confusion of who and what she is. My problem with it is that neither of three themes gained ENOUGH traction. The father was a great character, but developed minimally in the first half of the book, while we didnt get nearly the depth of emotion of the main character that we could have given Winter's excellent settings. However, the world Winter created was palpably dark and lonely at times, and hopeful like a breath of fresh air in the forest at others. The rich lyricism of the book was excellent as well.
takes you for a looonnnggg scenic ride and then drops you off in the middle of no where without a map tah dah