Xylophone ★★★★✩

Title: Xylophone

Author: K. Z. Snow

Genre: m/m romance

Print length: 128 pages

Publication date: December 11, 2012

Rating: Four Stars

Blurb: Daren Boothe's most significant secret centers on an unlikely object: a xylophone. That secret led him to develop his professional alter-ego, a sensual, androgynous dancer. When Dare begins his second (and considerably more wholesome) job playing clarinet in a polka band, he meets a young man who takes his grandmother out dancing. But Dare knows the man has his own secret. 

Jonah Day immediately recognizes the clarinetist. Three years earlier they crossed paths in a therapist's office, but they both abandoned that route to mental health. Neither was ready then to open up about the psychological traumas that haunted them.

In an attempt to heal their wounds, Dare and Jonah turn to each other. Understanding and empathy come instantly, accompanied by ambivalence about their growing attraction. But the repercussions of victimization are many. Soon, the very experiences Dare and Jonah share threaten to drive them apart.

Review:

This was short, sweet and well worth the money. I could think of a few small complaints but I won't tell you about them. They don't take away from the story or the writers skill in presenting it to us. In this particular genre, it's a breath of fresh air that leaves you feeling reborn. I throughly, throughly enjoyed it and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Buy it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Xylophone-ebook/dp/B00AMVNLIU/ref=cm_cr-mr-img


More titles by K. Z. Snow:

Title: Visible Friend

Author: K. Z. Snow

Genre: m/m paranormal romance

Print length: 124 pages

Publication date: April 26, 2011

Overall reviewer rating: Four and a Half Stars

Blurb: Winner of first place for LGBT Cover in the 2011 Rainbow Awards.

Christopher Borgasian has spent the last seven months painstakingly breaking up with a lover he’s adored for three years: heroin. Now he’s trying to make it on his own—without the drugs, without the family that rejected him for being gay, and, seemingly, without a friend in the world.

The night before Chris leaves a sober-living facility to pursue his uncertain future, a stranger named Denny shows up in his room. From then on, Denny returns whenever Chris needs him the most, always vanishing as mysteriously as he appears. Chris desperately needs emotional and physical intimacy, but who is Denny, really? And can Chris believe in him when it also means believing in unconditional love?

Review by Sirius ( Amazon Vine Voice ):

"Everything has to begin somewhere. The rolling river that grows from a trickle that threads from a pond that's fed by a spring. The fleck of dust that drifts from a rock that tumbled from a mountain. Everything has its own ancient origins, bound to the earth and the cosmos and whatever lies beyond". I think this paragraph reflects the mood of this tale very well. I would have never imagined that such a delightful story may come out of mixing two such seemingly not compatible subject - battling heroin addiction and one of the fairy tales of pretty much every person's childhood coming alive. Chris is such a wonderful character, somebody who decided to get himself clean of heroin addiction and managed to do so. Author shows Chris' pain, his everyday struggle with addiction that never completely goes away so well. We see Chris' pain, his loneliness, his determination, his desire for friend, for a lover and as blurb tells you one day Denni appears. When I started reading about Denny, I was thinking I cant believe she did that, I was not sure how succesful this fairy tale would be in such gritty realistic story, I should have trusted this writer's talent more. It is written with such delicate touch, and when story is done I was both so happy for Denny and Chris and keeping my fingers crossed for them, but I was also a little choked up by the epilogue.

Bravo!

Buy it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Friend-ebook/dp/B004Y76XOM/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1368071323&sr=1-4