2.5 - frustrated stars. I don't like short stories. I know this. Yet I keep buying them because sometimes....God, sometimes I find something stellar. And this? This had the potential to be the kind of story I could sink into. The kind of story that could have wrapped me in emotion and cradled me to its breast. It could have been fucking spectacular. But it was about 170 pages too damn short. The blurb sums it up well, Chandler is sort of 'stuck' in his life, all black and white and chrome, no real happiness, or sadness. Things just are, he is a very nice, controlled man.A barb from his ex has him hiring an artist to paint a mural, he can't even tell the artist what he wants, because I think he doesn't have enough imagination to know what he really wants, in his art or his life.Neil, the young starving hippie artist changes Chandler, of course he then thinks he isn't good enough for Chandler, but gets over it pretty quickly.It's told in alternating chapters from each POV and it was a sweet romantic short of opposites attract.
