A review by sireno8
Changing Tides by Michael Thomas Ford

3.0

This book is essentially a romance and it's a delivered believably with a minumum of sentiementality. The characters are all realistically drawn, likeable and refreshingly different. Their inner musings never get overwrought (except for the teenager's and hers need to be). The backrop the author has set up -- Monterey, Steinbeck, scuba society and marine biology--is richly detailedand appealing. I appreciated how the literary mystery in the book's center mirrors what's happening in the main characters lives. The end was genuinely touching without being cloying. On the whole, the book provided a pleasant place to go at the end of the day. It takes a while to get going, though, and its popluation of well-adjusted characters seems to proclude any sense of danger, that things may not work out okay. That in itself, however, is kind of relief from the strum and drang of real life--or other gay novels.