Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
Photojournalist Austin Edmunds is something of a loner, preferring his own company to all of the people his friends try to set him up with. A new assignment in the Smoky Mountains might just change all that, though, when Austin meets big, sexy hunk, Brack Edge.

Austin has never experienced an attraction as immediate as the one he feels for Brack, and he loves the scenery and people he encounters in the Smokies. Despite all that, life isn’t all fun and games for Austin and Brack. They take on helping out a local kid with his homophobic family, and Austin has a story to finish. The hardest part might just be how Brack and Austin will handle the fact that Austin is a Manhattan man to the core, and Brack is a mountain boy, through and through. Can they find a way to keep it together?

BOOK REVIEW:
This story is difficult to categorize. It’s definitely a romance, and thankfully is much more than the all too often portrayed tale of the country mouse and the town mouse. There are hints of the paranormal, but it’s possible to discount such influences if that genre isn’t for you.

At times the story is in danger of becoming sickly sweet with the idyllic countryside setting, and the no-holds-barred love Brack and Austin display. However, just when the sugar starts to get too much, along come the Raines brothers and things change dramatically. The three elder brothers are somewhat stereotypical homophobic red-necks, but the evil they represent is all too realistically painted.

Another checkmark in the “all in the garden is not rosy” column comes when Austin recalls his time with the tragic Howie. These were some of the most moving passages in the story.

Not everything is resolved within this story, so I’m wondering if A.K.M. Miles has a sequel in the works? I hope so, as the world that has been so vibrantly drawn deserves a second outlet.

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