Genre: Crime Romance
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
John and Rick meet in high school. Their paths part when they are drafted into the Vietnam War.
There are no war scenes or descriptions.
When their paths cross again after the war, John is a police detective and Rick is an assassin.
After Rick misses his target, John chases him and shoots out his car tire. Rick loses the game of hide and seek in a field of tall grass.
- Short read
- Set in the 70s and 80s
- HEA
- FTB
The Review
Parted Paths is a short story about John and Rick, two friends who get conscripted just as they graduate from high school, and as they might be about to take their friendship to the next level.
They meet briefly years later, not exactly by chance but more by fate, as John is a police officer and Rick is an assassin supposedly charged with protecting the ‘American way of life’. Let’s leave it at that.
It’ a short story and a love story, so you know they will get back together on a more permanent basis.
This is a little gem, maybe not a diamond, but definitely something semi-precious.
The Reviewer
Tony is an Englishman living amongst the Welsh and the Other Folk in the mountains of Wales. He lives with his partner of thirty-six years, four dogs, two ponies, various birds, and his bees. He is a retired lecturer and a writer of no renown but that doesn’t stop him enjoying what he used to think of as ‘sensible’ fantasy and sf. He’s surprised to find that if the story is well written and has likeable characters undergoing the trails of life, i.e. falling in love, falling out of love, having a bit of nooky (but not all the time), fending off foes, aliens and monsters, etc., he’ll be happy as a sandperson who has just offloaded a wagon of sand at the going market price. As long as there’s a story, he’s in. He aims to write fair and honest reviews. If he finds he is not the target reader he’ll move on.
