Adam Fitzroy

An Affirming Flame by Jay Lewis Taylor - 3.5 stars

Extraordinary Duties by Elin Gregory - 4 stars

The Boy Left Behind by Eleanor Musgrove - 3.5 stars

The Man Who Loved Pigs by Megan Reddaway - 3 stars

We Live Without a Future by Julie Bozza - 3 stars

A Life to Live by R.A. Padmos - 3.5 stars

The Town of Titipu by Adam Fitzroy - DNF

A Cup of Tea by Sandra Lindsey - 3 stars

Letters by Eleanor Musgrove - 3.5 stars

Buttercup by Jay Lewis Taylor - 3.5 stars

Between Friends by Sandra Lindsey - 2 stars

From Air to There by Michelle Peart - 3.5 stars

We're Out of Hero Fabric by Andrea Demetrius - 2 stars

See by Adam Fitzroy - 3.5 stars

Across a Thousand Miles by Barry Brennessel - 2 stars

Wild Flowers by JL Merrow - 3 stars

Better to Die by Charlie Cochrane - 3.5 stars… (mehr)

When Air Force Colonel Chad Ryan thwarted an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States, he was just doing his job. So the offer to join the White House staff that comes his way is completely unexpected. It's even more unexpected that his job seems to involve becoming friends with the entire First Family. But if that's what President Douglas Kearney expects, Chad will comply. It's easy to admire a man who is as confident and handsome as Doug, after all. But as the two spend more time together, Chad begins to pick up on some signals that make him wonder if the two might become more than friends. But if they do, what will that mean for Chad? For the President? For the President's family? For the country?

Hearing the concept of this book, it's very easy to write it off as something that could never happen. How ridiculous, right? But if one takes a moment to think about it, it's certainly within the realm of possibility. And the way the author has constructed this story, it definitely reads as believable. And now I find myself wondering when we'll see a gay relationship in the White House. It should only be a matter of time, after all...… (mehr)

Sad, funny and poignant by turns, this is a gentle romance by one of my favourite m/m authors . Sharply-drawn characters and a touch of the supernatural elevate it above most offerings in this genre. I'm still mentally turning the pieces of the puzzle round and round in my mind to see how they fit – ghost story, historical romance, meditation on fate and chance? Though the central mystery is precisely documented there's enough space for the reader to put her own interpretation on events, and it's the author's light touch that makes this one memorable.… (mehr)

I did wonder why the author chose to set this story in 1992 and I found different reasons, the main two: maybe the author wanted a period in time when being gay in UK was still something that was better to keep into the closet, plus this was 1992, the peak of the AIDS plague and the characters are working in health services, I’m pretty sure being gay was a sure ticket to being fired, with a reason or the other; maybe it needed to be far away in time to the WWI, but not so away that everything was almost forgotten, all people witnessing it already dead. In case, whatever reason, the nice coincidence is that these men (and one woman) are travelling together towards Germany more or less in the same period I did, right after the falling down of the Berlin Wall, when the once DDR was again a place you could freely visit. It was a strange feeling to read about a time I could relate and at the same time being transported back at a period I have only read about.

I have already told in the past, I try to avoid reading about WWI stories, cause they almost always end in a bad way for their characters, there are not many happily ever after for those men, and most of the time they were so young, so full of life, that is heartbreaking reading of how their life was cut so soon. So that is the reason why I liked this novel, the idea, for how much fantastic could be, that some of those young souls will be able to have a second chance. Sure, at the beginning, thinking that Allan and Dennis will be the vessels of that chance it’s quite strange, truth be told I didn’t even have the feeling they were gay or interested in each other, but then, little by little, you understand that, among the group, Allan and Dennis are probably the ones with much in common, was that the connection with the past, or the real chance of a future together.

This is not the first time I read a book by Fitzroy, and so I wasn’t surprise this was not strictly a romance; btw I would like to highlight that it’s not mandatory that every story involving two gay characters has to be a romance, I prefer that, but it’s not mandatory; in a way, this is the ending of a past romance and the beginning of a future one. The strength of Fitzroy, and this novel, lies in the characters and setting, both of them very English-style, both of them carefully crafted.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CQDE5RS/?tag=elimyrevandra-20… (mehr)