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Summary: Reap The Whirlwind
Review: Excellent character development and a great story line. Josh writes a story where many of the characters may be gay but you will not find graphic sex dripping from every page.
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Summary: A dark journey of self-discovery
Review: Fresh from high school, Will begins an evolution that bewilders those around him. His girlfriend breaks up with him and he moves out of his parents' house into Aidan's apartment. After discovering that Aidan is gay, Will comes to understand himself better, and the two stumble into a relationship. When one of Will's lifelong friends dies, he's heartbroken, and then the clues seem to indicate that the death was murder. With the help of Killian Kendall (from Aterovis's first book), Will investigates his friend's death, and soon finds death surrounding him. "Reap the Whirlwind" is a great coming-out and coming-of-age tale in all its flaming glory. The book tackles family rejection and atonement, and balances them with a heartfelt love story as the novel plunges into the dark abyss of attempted suicide and personal tragedies. Josh Aterovis limns in vivid detail the upheavals of coming out, as well as delighting audiences with an engrossing mystery.
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Summary: Depressing
Review: I got halfway through this book before I had to put it down. The only characters I felt anything for were Aiden and one of the narrator's best friends. The narrator was a whiner, the male 'best friend' was a jerk and the new girl was a psychotic mess. The mystery was almost no mystery; once you got halfway through and more people started dying, you pretty much knew 'who done it'.
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Summary: Another well-done, award-winning whodunit
Review: I have greatly enjoyed Josh's work, and Reap the Whirlwind is no exception. This is his best work to date. A roller-coaster ride of deep characters and wild events that spin almost out of control, this story holds together in its sheer grounding in the real, the possible, and the things we sometimes fear most in ourselves. With characters who are very real and well-developed, watching the growth of old characters and revelling in new ones makes this work worthwhile already... add the twisting plot that leaves readers breathless until the last page, and you have a masterpiece of fiction.Josh raises the question of just how far a person would go to protect the ones they love? Would they murder in cold blood for them? This book looks at that and many other questions in a deeply moving, emotionally shocking story that leaves the reader yearning for more. Keep the tissues nearby! I am anxiously awaiting the next installment of the Killian Kendall series. Keep them coming, Josh!
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Summary: Another well-done, award-winning whodunit
Review: I have greatly enjoyed Josh's work, and Reap the Whirlwind is no exception. This is his best work to date. A roller-coaster ride of deep characters and wild events that spin almost out of control, this story holds together in its sheer grounding in the real, the possible, and the things we sometimes fear most in ourselves. With characters who are very real and well-developed, watching the growth of old characters and revelling in new ones makes this work worthwhile already... add the twisting plot that leaves readers breathless until the last page, and you have a masterpiece of fiction. Josh raises the question of just how far a person would go to protect the ones they love? Would they murder in cold blood for them? This book looks at that and many other questions in a deeply moving, emotionally shocking story that leaves the reader yearning for more. Keep the tissues nearby! I am anxiously awaiting the next installment of the Killian Kendall series. Keep them coming, Josh!
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Summary: Fantastic Book, a must read
Review: I stumbled upon this book a a while ago and was hooked on the first page, it is definitely a must read. But be very careful you could find your self falling for the characters as they are so well written you think you know them personally. Buy it and you'll read it again and again wishing to be part of the story. Keep it up Josh!
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Summary: Fantastic Book, a must read
Review: I stumbled upon this book a a while ago and was hooked on the first page, it is definitely a must read. But be very careful you could find your self falling for the characters as they are so well written you think you know them personally. Buy it and you'll read it again and again wishing to be part of the story. Keep it up Josh!
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Summary: Needs an editor
Review: It's always a bad sign when a book leaves me thinking that I could be a published writer, too. This author would benefit greatly from the red pen of a good editor.
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Summary: Very very good read
Review: Josh has a good story to tell and tells it extremely well. This book isn't just for the gay community; it's for the mainstream. Josh has written an exciting mystery that just happens to have gay characters in it. On the other hand, his gay characters serve as positive role models for the sexually confused younger generation.
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Summary: Great basic concept but flawed execution
Review: One can easily find a plot synposis on the WWW, so I won't put one in my review. I think it's kinda hard to judge that book. On the positive side you have its great basic concept. It's a mystery/detective novel with young protagonists. Next to the detective work Aterovis puts issues such as coming out as a gay male, Bible interpretations concerning homosexuality, self esteem problems concerning one's homosexuality and so on. That's something youth literature in German hasn't achived so far. German-language literature with gay male protagonists seems to be still muddled with stereotypes (just look at such books as "Mitte der Welt"!) and nonexisting plots. There are whole books just about (more or less stereotypical gay) boys wondering whether they're gay or not and whether that's a bad thing or not.
This book wants to present homosexuality as something as natural as heterosexuality and wants to present its gay characters not as "gay characters" (if you know what I mean) but as boys who happen to be gay just as there are boys who are straight.
And now to the negative aspects of the book. At the beginning, the protagonist describes himself as shy and introspective. Now that's okay with me, but during the book one has the impression he starts crying and/or get a hysterical breakdown and/or gets watery eyes on every third or fourth page (and not just because of serious issues). To put it mildly, I think that's rather too much crying going on here. The other gay boys in the book come across as real characters, but somehow they all seem to be very much like each other. Cute, clean with no rough edges, and with a certain urge to cry more than other people do. I don't want to sound rude but when one of the female characters told the protagonists "Get some b**ls!" I agreed with her. As the plot proceeds, the language and plot developement seem to get more and more overdone. There are really lots of "Oh my God"s in the dialogue and everybody always receives news with a mouth that is dropping wide open. People always have tons of ideas, are really thrilled to do something, stand somewhere for an eternity and so on. The protagonist gets married with eighteen (!) after he has known his boyfriend for two weeks or so. His boyfriend proposes to him in a field of rose petals he has decorated the apartement with. The marriage takes place in an apartement decorated in the style of Martha Stewart and with music by NSYNC playing in the background... The dialogue and the characters sometimes felt like lifted from one of those atrocious American TV-serials like "Dawson's Creek". All this really flaws the book in my opinion. Why is there no real variety in the gay characters? Why isn't there a gay character who is like Nikki's boyfriend or Joey?
Well, after all, I still can recommend reading this book because of all the information and the positive feeling about being gay it brings across. And if you want think positive, just think that this book at least gives you an impression of how you don't want to do certain things. A good companion to this book are Jay Quinn's "Metes and Bounds" or Bart Yates' "Leave Myself Behind" because of their different perspective and because they includes some of the aspects this book here lacks
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