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Length: 60,332 words
Cover Design: Reese Dante
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Blurb
Truman Reid is Summitville High’s most out-and-proud senior. He can't wait to take his fierce, uncompromising self away from his small Ohio River hometown, where he’s suffered more than his share of bullying. He’s looking forward to bright lights and a big city. Maybe he’ll be the first gender-fluid star to ever win an Academy Award. But all that changes on the first day of school when he locks eyes with the most gorgeous hunk he’s ever seen.
Mike Stewart, big, dark-haired, and with the most amazing blue eyes, is new to town. He's quiet, manly, and has the sexy air of a lost soul. It’s almost love at first sight for Truman. He thinks that love could deepen when Mike becomes part of the stage crew for Harvey, the senior class play Truman's directing. But is Mike even gay? And how will it work when Truman's mother is falling for Mike’s dad?
Plus Truman, never the norm, makes a daring and controversial choice for the production that has the whole town up in arms.
See how it all plays out on a stage of love, laughter, tears, and sticking up for one’s essential self….
My Two Pennies' Worth
Full disclosure. While I love Rick R Reed’s books, I haven’t read Big Love, the book prior to this one. This lapse didn’t impede my reading pleasure, I was fully able to read and enjoy this book as a standalone. However I do wonder if I would have enjoyed it even more if I’d read them in order.
This is a young adult tale. Truman is gender fluid, Mike is deeply in the closet, these facts don’t bode well for any relationship between the two, be it friendship or romantic. Especially when the whole town seems to want to have a say on any subject surrounding Truman.
I really like the way Rick handled Truman’s gender-fluidity and navigated the possible minefield of teenage angst.
I enjoyed this story immensely and now I need to go back and read Big Love to learn how Dane and Seth get their HEA.
Rick R. Reed draws inspiration from the lives of gay men to craft stories that quicken the heartbeat, engage emotions, and keep the pages turning. Although he dabbles in horror, dark suspense, and comedy, his attention always returns to the power of love. He’s the award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty works of published fiction and is forever at work on yet another book. Lambda Literary has called him: “A writer that doesn’t disappoint…” You can find him at www.rickrreed.com or www.rickrreedreality.blogspot.com. Rick lives in Palm Springs, CA with his beloved husband.
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