Room For Love: An Opposites Attract Small Town Gay Romance (The Fixer Upper)

As a parent of an early elementary student, I’m not usually a fan of how they’re presented in fiction. Little kids seem way more coherent in fiction than my kid is in real life. Eli, a first grader, is portrayed a bit better than most. He asks about the big words. He latches on to the new adult (something my kid would totally do). I still think he pays a bit more attention to conversations and speaks better than any kid his age, but given how hard that is to convey, I’ll forgive it. Noah, on the other hand, is a great dad. But how I wish someone, when the accident at the lake happened, had sat him down and told him that he could just have easily have frozen had he been the only one watching Eli when it happened, and that would show more have been a bigger disaster. And also, he had done the responsible, grown-up thing, and left his kid with a responsible grown-up. Who didn’t freeze. So nothing bad had happened, because there were more people to take care of his kid than just him. I do wish we’d found out what happened to turn Luke off of relationships (seems like an important piece of backstory?) but I was sobbing through the third act break up, which is the mark of a great book. I’ll count this as a win in my reading pile and be looking for more by this author. show less