Toph's Empty Year

I know I'm late to the party, but I just finished this story and had to do a review. I started reading this expecting a love story, but this is so much more! It's a story of growing up, maturing, about moving on with your life and finding new friends and love. It's also a story about two clashing societies and has a diverse cast of characters that are all brilliantly executed.

Tosh is such an interesting character and it's great to follow him as he matures and developes with the help of his friends and, of course, the man who becomes the love of his life!

I was reading another remarkably similar story at the time that this one appeared. Both centered around a main character who was a scion of a wealthy Florida family in the Palm Beach area and the attempt of each young man to escape the oppressive hypocritical snobbery there and the burden of coming from a society family. This tale has a happy and conciliatory outcome following Toph's escape into the world of small town America and more 'normal', unpretentious people. Toph becomes a stand alone personality all his own

without the involvement of his family. His success in becoming his own person instead of

just an appendage makes everyone come to respect him, -even his own family. It is a fine,

well written story that I recommend to everyone.