Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: The Colors of Love
AUTHOR: F.E. Feeley, Jr.
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 353 Pages
RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2019
BLURB:
Love’s colors are many.
David is a fortyish corporate lawyer. Handsome. Successful. With the seemingly perfect life in a northern Detroit Suburb. Despite all this, David is miserable when he finds out that his wife has been sexting his best friend. David – who is struggling with his sexual identity – files for divorce and plans on crashing on the couch in his office in a high rise building downtown.
Aaron is a twenty-something post-Harvard graduate burnt out on life and struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Fleeing Boston, and an abusive relationship, Aaron returns home to regroup and figure out what his next move is. Taking a job at cleaning offices, throwing himself into the shadows of blue-collar work, feels comfortable for him at this moment in life.
Life has many colors. However, for these two lost, lonely men, life is an awful shade of gray.
The Trilogy of stories follows David and Aaron as they cross each other’s paths and, reintroduce each other to the joys of sex, conversation, and human intimacy.
REVIEW:
This is one of those books that comes under my heading of “Give it a minute”.
When I asked Dani for this author’s new book, I was talking about an upcoming release he has with another author, but she got this one instead. At first, I’ll admit I was hesitant. I’m not a huge reader of contemporary fiction and I don’t enjoy age gap characters usually. I need some paranormal, some fantasy, or something different to make me happy. I started reading the book, which is a compilation of three previously released novellas, and my prejudice against contemporary fiction almost saw me putting it down mid-read. But then I noticed that I was kind of flying my way through the story and becoming invested in the characters and what was happening with them. Before I knew it, I had finished the book. I’ll even admit to having teary eyes at least twice during the read.
Aaron and David made for an interesting couple. They were so different. Aaron is a graduate of Harvard, currently cleaning bathrooms while he hides from the world. David is a lawyer who just discovered at roughly age 40 that his wife is sexting one of their friends. Then David hears someone singing in the hallway of his office where he is planning on spending the night on the couch. He wanders down the hall and finds Aaron and the rest is history.
The relationship moved quite quickly. I’ll admit I was a little put off that condoms were never even discussed, especially as Aaron knew his ex was an IV drug user. I’ve also got to say that some of the dialogue was a little hokey in some spots. Especially the dialogue during sex. I found it a stretch that David would call Aaron “lover” and things like that.
Overall though, I enjoyed the story. I got crocodile tears when Aaron went back to Boston to see his ex. Having been there and done that sort of thing over the years, it brought back personal memories outside the story.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a May/December relationship… although the age group wasn’t huge in this one. All lot of stuff happens to the two men along the way, as well as to their circle of friends and community. I enjoyed it and look forward to future works by the author.
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