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Reviewed by Dennis
TITLE: Thunder Snow
AUTHOR: Owen Keehnen
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 53 Pages
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Thunder Snow is a gay love story set in academia during the 1980s. When Jim Franklin goes away to Windsor College, he is hoping to leave his former life, and lifestyle, behind. Jim has had enough of feeling like an outsider. By all practical purposes he is succeeding at Windsor, at least until his third year. Jim has joined a fraternity and is dating a nice sorority girl. Love blindsides him when Jim meets Glenn who has relocated to the town of Windsor from New York City. Glenn has come to town as the kept lover of wealthy Windsor resident Raymond Channing. Bored by the lack of stimulation in small town, Glenn soon enrolls in college at the university and meets Jim in a Romantic Literature class. When Jim asks for assistance with an assignment, Glenn agrees. Sparks soon ignite and passion ensues. Despite their respective situations, both men fall madly in love, but will it be enough to sustain them in the long run.
REVIEW:
Jim is a manager at a retail store when he has a realization that if he stays, his future will be full of bitterness like his coworkers and bosses above him. He decides he wants out and applies to various colleges and decides to go to the first one that responds, Windsor College. While there he finds a fraternity thathe fits into and relishes in the fraternity lifestyle of parties and drinking, even having a girlfriend.
Glen is a waiter in New York, not by choice but by necessity, because in his world he truly was an activist and an artist. While waiting tables he meets a gentleman named Raymond, who offers him a life that he dreams of, where he doesn’t have to do anything but be Raymond’s sugar baby. Glen soon gets bored being a kept man and enrolls in school, where in a Romantic Literature class Glen and Jim meet and the real story begins.
The author has done a decent job keeping it flowing pretty well as a short story. From Jim and Glen’s meeting to the falling in love, and right to the end of the story. Thunder Snow was a decent story of finding a winter holiday romance and I think could have potential of being a good story. Owen has painted a nice story but Ithink it lacked, for me at least, dialogue between the two main characters. I would have liked not just hearing about what they were going through, and hearing what they were thinking, but for them to have actually spoken to each other more than they did.
With that said, I did actually enjoy the story of Glen and Jim finding a winter holiday romance and Jim figuring out who he was in the end and what he wanted. I feel this book would be good if you’re looking for a quick read.
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