Working It Out by Don Hanratty's a great, fast paced novel that took me through a series of roller coasters along the ride. I just finished Book 1 (of 3) and I must say it was a great novel. I have to admit that the novel's speed was a bit too quick for me, as in before I could get any time to really realize what's going in the surroundings, the scene changes and you're shocked by the next series of events that happen in the plot. There is no "plateau" where things just randomly settle down for some time and then *boom* - it's just a constant chain and waves of *boom boom boom* you can't slow down, you can't react, you just keep reading. There were typos... some more major than minor, such as in Chapter 11 when uh... wait....

that threw me off quite a bit until I kept rereading the paragraph until it made sense. Other than some of the more liberties that the author took to somehow many every single one of his plot twists believable because every single one of them are just as unbelievable as the previous one, it has an interesting take to how the author forces the reader to consistently twist their brains in such a way that the plot twists are never "expected" or "storybook". However, the foreshadowing of "not being able to have kids via conventional methods" definitely came to mind especially at the end of Book 1.

I'm starting Book 2 now. I can definitely get used to this Great job Don H. http://donh.gayauthors.org/

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In other news, I have a few ideas for a novel of my own, which are spread out from a weird "40 year old virgin" story for a gay guy... a high school gay romance that forces both to take on fake straight lives... a city boy/country cowboy romance... I just hope that when the time comes I don't get too much writer's block - and it doesn't read like a messy third grader's scribbled text.