Theme Week Love is an Open Road

Reviewed by Donna

TITLE: Lima Oscar Victor Echo and The Truth About Everything

AUTHOR: Suki Fleet

LENGTH: 83 Pages

STORY PROMPT:

Dear Author,

I saw this picture and would love to know their story.

These two are either long-term friends or lovers, not sure which. They should be happy but for some reason they feel sad to me, maybe they have lost someone close or even a beloved pet. I don’t really know. One of them could be ill or going away. Could you please write their story?

REVIEW:

Jamie is Oscar’s very best friend. They both live with their families in a tiny Welsh village and though there is a decent sized town only fifteen minutes away, Oscar feels horribly isolated and out of place. Oscar is an artist, he creates short animations, and he’s even a finalist to have one of his movies shown on TV. But it’s a part of his life that he can’t share with his family or friends, not even Jamie, because the movies he makes would reveal the secret he is hiding from them. The fact that’s he’s gay. Gay, and crazy in love with his straight best friend. He knows that the only way he will ever be able to live in the open is if he escapes village life and heads to somewhere he’ll be more accepted. Somewhere like London. That means leaving Jamie behind, but perhaps that’s another step that Oscar simply needs to take.

When we decided to each choose one of these Love is an Open Road stories to review I intended to look for an unknown, new author to show a bit of appreciation to. But then I read this story by Suki Fleet and I loved it so much that I couldn’t contemplate not reviewing it, and letting other people know just how great it is. This is the second story that I’ve read by this author and once again I’m struck by just how much she can make me feel. Honestly, I went so far as to study some of the sentences word by word, I have no idea how she does it , but she does it with undeniable skill.

Jamie is a musician and the song that the author included, the song that Jamie writes for Oscar is so beautiful I desperately, desperately wished it was actually something I could listen to.

The ending is exactly what any romance reader could hope for and as much as Suki Fleet will make you feel the tumult of emotions that her characters experience throughout the story, you also get to experience their happily ever after, right along with them.

Jamie laughed. Tears still filled his throat, his eyes, but there was always laughter too. He felt everything.

See…you’re going to feel everything.

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