Reviewed by: Marieke

TITLE: Darkness Falls

AUTHOR: Jamie Lynn Miller

PUBLISHER: Dark Roast Press

LENGTH: 117 pages

BLURB:

Matthew Tucker is a successful actor on a hit television show, his career on the rise. Life is good. What more could he want? Daniel Westman, that’s what – his co-star and close friend.

Matthew’s attraction to Daniel grows day by day, feeling there’s something between them, just under the surface. But months go by, with Matthew afraid to tell Daniel he was falling in love with him. Because if he was wrong and Matthew was looking too deeply into it…he’d lose his best friend. So instead Matthew longs for Daniel in silence, until an accident on set may leave Daniel permanently blind. With his friend hurt, scared and confused, his life possibly forever altered, Matthew never wavers from Daniel’s side, no matter how difficult it gets.

His dedication brings them closer than ever before, but is it possible to find happiness, and love, in the wake of a tragedy? Or has Matthew’s hesitation cost him that chance and he’ll lose Daniel to the darkness instead?

REVIEW:

Matthew is my favorite character in this novella. He’s sweet, caring and obviously in love with Daniel. Daniel is a nice person until something happens to him, then he turns into a bit of a grouch. Daniel is in an accident and damages his eyes. The doctors can’t tell him if it’s permanent or not and Daniel doesn’t deal well with that news.

During the whole story you read how much Matthew loves his best friend and how scared he is of losing him. You also see in a lot of little things that the feeling is mutual, but for me Daniel never shows the same amount of dedication as Matthew.

Daniel refuses help, professional or otherwise. Only Matthew can help him, even if it’s with great reluctance that Daniel accepts that. He explodes at every setback, he shuts Matthew out and yells.

For me, Daniel wasn’t as great a character as Matthew was. He won’t go to a shrink, won’t get out of the house and he doesn’t want to ‘see’ anyone. But what bothered me the most about him, was that he didn’t even tell Matthew that his sight was starting to get better, even when he knew how much it hurt his boyfriend. Daniel isn’t going to a doctor either and he could’ve damaged his healing process, which annoyed me.

The story itself was a nice one, just a bit short for my taste. I think the author could’ve made a full-length novel out of this easily. The fact that I want that is a clear indication that it wasn’t a bad read at all, just not as great as it could’ve been

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