I thought this was a wonderful coming of age story about a gay teen(Rory) who goes to live with his father(Eddy), whom he believed had abandoned Rory's mother upon finding out that she was pregnant with Rory. He is prepared to hate this man, but finds out pretty quickly that his father never knew about him until just recently. Rory had only come out to his mother and grandmother and doesn't want to tell his father that he is gay, fearing his father's reaction. Not only is Rory not telling his father something important, but his dad is also hiding a few things...namely that he is gay himself and the man(Jase) whom Rory thought was his cousin is actually his partner. There is also another teen living with them(Luke)-Jase is Luke's cousin and foster parent because Luke's mother is dead and his father is in jail. Luke is also gay and Rory is attracted to him. Rory goes through a really difficult time dealing with all of the lying when he inadvertantly finds out about it and makes a deal with his father that he will be allowed to go back home to Nevada to live with his grandmother at the end of the summer if he so chooses. Luke introduces Rory to all of his friends. There is one boy that Luke seems to really dislike named Aaron who seems to like Rory. Rory ends up experiencing his first kiss and experiences his first oral sex with Aaron. I thought that the characters in this book were very well written and believable. I thought Rory's emotions during all of his trials and tribulations were really spot-on. I thought they were realistic emotions for any teen, not just for a gay teen. I also thought the story had plenty of twists and turns that left you wanting to read on to see what would happen. I would highly recommend this book. This is another freebee, and really well written. The story of 16 year old Rory, who grew up with his mother in Nevada. His mother died of cancer and just before reveiled the identity of Rory's dad. So Rory is forced now to go and live with this dad, he never knew existed. And his dad is not living alone....Rory is the typical teenager, confused, stubborn, but quite smart. And in addition he is gay, but mostly in the closet.The book is about his settling in Ari-fri-kin-zona where he is determined to hate everybody and it is about his awakend sexuality and his coming out. I laughed and I cried. It was touching, even though I normally feel too old for the coming out teenage problematics.At the end, it ended too fast. I would have like one more chapter to tie up the loose ends, but otherwise: a really good book.
What do You think about Desert Dropping (2000)?
read this when it was just a few chapters long, Reading it again now
—Cyaegha
Well the book is well written, but I did not like it...
—darlinx
