Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: Planting His Dream 
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 200 Pages
RELEASE DATE: April 11, 2016
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Foster dreams of getting away, but after his father’s death, he has to take over the family dairy farm. It soon becomes clear his father hasn’t been doing the best job of running it, so not only does Foster need to take over the day-to-day operations, he also needs to find new ways of bringing in revenue. Javi has no time to dream. He and his family are migrant workers, and daily survival is a struggle, so they travel to anywhere they can get work. When they arrive in their old van, Foster arranges for Javi to help him on the farm. To Javi’s surprise, Foster listens to his ideas and actually puts them into action. Over days that turn into weeks, they grow to like and then care for each other, but they come from two very different worlds, and they both have responsibilities to their families that neither can walk away from. Is it possible for them to discover a dream they can share? Perhaps they can plant their own and nurture it together to see it grow, if their different backgrounds don’t separate them forever.
REVIEW:
Foster has every intention of leaving the family farm. His father has been acting more of an ass than usual, it’s like he thinks he’s a drill sergeant all the damn time. Right up until his father dies and leaves him to look after not only the farm but his mother and grandmother Foster is making plans to leave. Whilst his father was alive when it came time to harvest they would use itinerant workers. When the family turned up to work and Foster met their eldest son Javi, Foster had all of these unexplainable feelings awaken. After Javi and his family left Foster couldn’t get him off his mind.
Thankfully Javi and his family come back looking for work as Foster, his mother and grandmother certainly can’t handle harvesting on their own. Things are different this year with Javi’s family. Foster notices that Javi’s father is drunk almost all the time and then he notices the scars on Javi. When he finds out they were from his father in his drunken rages Foster decides to let Javi’s father know his behaviour won’t be tolerated on Foster’s farm. Not only does this backfire it’s almost like Javi’s father decides to “go hard or go home”, he not only drinks more he takes off for days on end and comes back covered in bruises from the fights he’s been in.
One good thing that comes from Javi spending so much time with Foster and his family is the brilliant ideas Javi has about expanding not only the milking and produce side of the business but grandma’s vegetable garden. Javi is overwhelmed when Foster implements his ideas for everything and they work so well that Javi is told that all surplus money’s are his to keep!
All good things must come to an end and Javi and his family have to move on to the next farm. Foster is devastated even though he understands that Javi can’t just abandon his family, he’s the only person keeping his family fed. Foster spends as much time making sure he stays as busy as he can so that maybe his heart won’t realise it’s broken and lonely. After weeks of moping around Foster’s Grandmother confronts him with the fact that she knows he’s hurting but he as to admit that he’s fallen in love with Javi and it’s, ok to be gay! She doesn’t have a problem with it. His mother however has a harder time accepting it, she doesn’t get angry but she does have to take some time to come to terms with the fact that she will be getting a son-in-law not a daughter-in-law!
All-in-all, Planting His Dream is a feel good story about how you can have just about anything you dream about if you have the love and support of your family and friends. I love the way the major disparities in their upbringing and lifestyle’s doesn’t make any difference to Foster, Javi or Foster’s family. The overall love and acceptance is something everyone struggles to attain but only the lucky achieve.
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