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Title: The Concrete Sky by Marshall Moore ISBN: 1-56023-436-9 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A dark, rollercoaster romance
Comment: When Chad slips from a balcony at a party, he finds out just how much worse his life can become, especially as his manipulative brother Martin convinces everyone it's a suicide attempt. He's confined at the hospital, pending evaluation, and meets the young and attractive Jonathan. Sparks fly between the two, and Chad has reason to hope, but just what is Jonathan's connection to recent deaths at the hospital? And is Jonathan's story of how his parents died the truth? After the two young men are released from the hospital, they continue their romance, but Chad still has questions, although his life spirals even further out of his grasp before he can figure out who Jonathan really is. Martin is stalking Chad, their estranged mother is dying, Chad really needs to find a job, and danger is lurking just around the corner. "The Concrete Sky" is a high velocity romance with a bodycount that grabs the reader and doesn't let go until the final pages. The plot does stretch believability and everything isn't explained to a reader's satisfaction, but overall the novel thrills and entertains. It reminded me a bit of such works as "Brain and Body" by Richard Frost, "Through It Came Bright Colors" by Trebor Healey, and "Prozac Highway" by Persimmon Blackbridge, but with a much happier ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent story, well told
Comment: This is one of the best books with a gay theme I've read in the last few years. The characters are believable and well-drawn; the plot has twists and unexpected turns that make it exciting right to the last page.
Chad, the principal character, has had a string of misfortunes and is now in a mental ward, put there by....(you need to read the book!) He encouters another temporary resident of the ward, Jonathan, a trust-fund teen with the wisdom and skills of someone much older, who is under suspicion for murder. I loved Jonathan. He is one of the most memorable characters I've ever met in gay fiction.
They get to know each other slowly and believably. We see their hesitations and doubts. They start to help each other with their various predicaments - they're in a mental ward, after all. And then we find that is just the beginning of their troubles. All hell breaks loose, and soon we are rooting for them and wishing we could be a character ourselves so we could know them in person.
Marshall Moore is an excellent writer and I hope he writes many more like The Concete Sky.
Rating: 5
Summary: Murder(s) most foul--and witty
Comment: I got this book because I thought it'd make a great beach read. How wrong I was.
I was so engrossed with the breakneck twists and turns of the plot, the deceptively dry voice of Chad, the narrator, which sizzles with witty venom, and the very sexy game of cat-and-mouse between Chad and Jonathan--the boy who may or may not be a mad killer, may or may not be the man of Chad's dreams--that I read the whole book in one sitting. If I'd done this at the beach, I would have washed out with high tide.
I don't want to go into too much detail about why I loved this book or why I think Marshall Moore is a wit so caustic and laugh-out-loud brilliant that he deserves his own cable show on Bravo (and he does!). Why not? Because I'm certain to give away the story.
And the many mysteries within The Concrete Sky are what make this book so engrossing: a surprise stay in a madhouse that leads to steamy encounters with a dangerous inmate; a stalker who's a Marine with an evil mission and a worse secret still; death by pepper flakes; a tight-lipped mother trapped in her own secrets and a double-wide trailer filled with cats and litter boxes; a gruesome death that is either the supreme act of poetic justice or derangement.
And all of it told in Moore's signature style: a low-key voice with a great eye for detail and dialogue and wit so acidic it could take flesh right off the bone.
Now the next mystery I want Marshall Moore to solve is when his next book will be coming out!
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