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By Quarry Lake by Josephine Myles
4.0
Short stories are a hard medium to build a believable romance in. Solution? Make it a friends-to-not friends-to lovers story. Give the guys a history, give readers a reason to open their hearts to the conflict that tore them apart, and then give readers some playful and sexy moments, set in an idyllic summer place, to watch those two friends begin to reconnect and start over as something more.
That’s exactly what Josephine Myles has done, and done so well, in By Quarry Lake, the story of a friendship gone in the blink of a kiss, then found again in the time it took for one of those friends to grow and to learn who he is. That’s what Tommy Freestone needed after that kiss from his best friend Rob—the kiss that left him shocked and reeling. Just time.
Myles plays this story out like a slow dance to sweet music. By Quarry Lake is a story about making a second chance, not waiting around in hopes that a chance meeting or a stroke of luck will pave the way to a new beginning. It’s a story about the courage to embrace love, and it even offers readers a little reminder that when you give a person a chance to show they love you, they often do that in the best possible way.
I loved this little story for everything it is—Tommy coming home to right a past wrong, and Rob discovering that home is where the love is.
Reviewed by Lisa for The Novel Approach Reviews
That’s exactly what Josephine Myles has done, and done so well, in By Quarry Lake, the story of a friendship gone in the blink of a kiss, then found again in the time it took for one of those friends to grow and to learn who he is. That’s what Tommy Freestone needed after that kiss from his best friend Rob—the kiss that left him shocked and reeling. Just time.
Myles plays this story out like a slow dance to sweet music. By Quarry Lake is a story about making a second chance, not waiting around in hopes that a chance meeting or a stroke of luck will pave the way to a new beginning. It’s a story about the courage to embrace love, and it even offers readers a little reminder that when you give a person a chance to show they love you, they often do that in the best possible way.
I loved this little story for everything it is—Tommy coming home to right a past wrong, and Rob discovering that home is where the love is.
Reviewed by Lisa for The Novel Approach Reviews