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Austin Little austinlitt83c5 — It’s the late 60′s, and fifteen – year-old Sam is the only gay kid in Cooper’s Crossing. At first, he’s had a hard time figuring out how he was different from other boys his age, until he came upon the local legend about young lad Will Fairchild who followed his lover Ben Garvey out into bushranger country a century ago. However, Sam is aware that being a “poofter” isn’t exactly looked upon as desirable, since the stories about Will and Ben are always told in hushed tones, and asking adults about “blokes-with blokes” only ever brought him a clout round the ear anyway. So Sam makes sure nobody knows he’s not into “sheilas”. Yet, Sam is lucky enough that his straight school crush, Joey, is so pent up on hormones that he doesn’t mind fooling around with his poofter best friend. When Joey leaves Cooper’s Crossing for good, he consoles Sam by pointing him to another boy, Steven, who passes through Cooper’s on a regular basis as a co-driver in his uncle’s truck. According to Joey, sixteen-year-old Steven might be just the thing Sam needs. And boy, is he ever! His truck alone leaves an impression with Sam, sporting the picture of a bushranger of all things, and Steven strikes Sam as just drop-dead gorgeous and just like he has always pictured a gay man. One look at Steven, and Sam is lost. So is Steven, obviously, and for the next few years, Sam becomes Steven’s “Navy wife”, dropping everything and rushing to meet Steven as soon as “Stand and Deliver” rolls into town. Their comfortable routine is on the rocks when Steven’s uncle falls ill with a heart attack just shortly before Steven is ready to take over the truck. Steven can’t do all the driving on his own. But the replacement driver, Reg, doesn’t mind Sam coming along with them as a third pair of hands, helping out and learning the trade, so Steven can take over when his uncle is back. Reg doesn’t mind Sam’s and Steven’s special kind of friendship either. Unfortunately, this results in Reg blabbering about them, and suddenly Sam finds himself looked at askance by people he’s known for all his life, including his family, as he’s outed in his hometown. But does this really matter? As Sam takes a new look at his hometown, he suddenly realizes that the folklore about Will Fairchild and his bushranger lover might be not so far away from his own life as he’d thought. A big part of this story’s charm lays in its Aussi-slang laced narrative. Sam tells his story with a kind of dry humor and down to earth serenity that immediately cast a spell on me. His voice made me fall into the groove of his tale and transported me smack in the middle of the Australian outback. Just like Sam himself is, the people Sam talks about are so real as to be almost tangible. Here’s one example of his voice: … Marureen Stacy was behind the bar, pulling pints, four nights a week. There’s a portrait of her up behind the bar to this day, wearing a low-cut red frock and looking like a couple of sofa cushions halfstuffed into a duffel bag. It was a wonder she could stand up straight with her centre of gravity too high and all off-balance. (Try wearing your rucksack backwards, see what I mean.)… Sam and Steven have an easygoing way of putting up with whatever life throws into their way, some kind of “I get there when I get there” attitude that has always struck me as significant for the people who live the hard life in the Australian outback. It doesn’t matter to either of them that they can’t be together more than a few times a month, and that they have to meet in the woods or in the Semi’s sleeper cab. They seize any opportunity and make the best of it, trusting it’s going to work out, if not this way, then another. This isn’t a romance in the classical sense, more of a love story or better, the story of Sam falling in love. Steven and Sam don’t even meet for the first third of the book, and they aren’t often together on-page (there’s no on-page-sex in here, btw, in case you were wondering) Steve is seen only through Sam’s eyes, thought about, thought of, mulled over, and yet there’s no doubt left that they are mutually serious about each other. Particularly delivered in Sam’s distinctive voice, I found this very skillfully done. All in all, this cute little story was simply a joy to read. Sam’s tale is damn funny and real and as honest as they come, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as thoroughly as I did. Highly recommended.

Oncom Hideung _ncom — What a great start to a new series! The one thing I definitely can say is that I am extremely glad this book lived up to all of the chatter I saw on Twitter and on different sites. Leigh Fallon took the young adult supernatural world and made it her own. It is very hard to be original with all of the new books out there and so many imitations of work that have become famous, especially if you are a reader as well as an author. The cover is gorgeous and what drew me to the book first. It is an ARC so I cannot complain about editing. I am a doctoral candidate with a ton of research and writing skills so my bar is set really high there and for an ARC the editing was not too bad. I imagine that by the time this is at final print it will be close to perfect. A student who moves around a lot relocates to Ireland and attends a new school. She discovers new friends and new things about herself. She is introduced to an entirely new world because of her family history and the fun, action and mystery begins there. The setting was well described. I love reading about other countries and the author did a wonderful job of making me see what the characters saw, from cliffs overhanging beautiful bodies of water to green hillsides during September. The description of beautiful buildings and what the homes looked like was well done. It really works as an e-fieldtrip. The characters were very well developed. I could tell right off that some people were very suspicious to me and I can't wait to find out if I am right in future books. Meagan and her friends behaved the way young adults tend to and I have to say that the siblings and their relationship were very well done especially given their history. I had a thought about one thing and I hope I don't forget it by the time the next book comes out and I hope it is something that will be developed in the forthcoming books. That is another thing that I liked about The Carrier of the Mark. There was mystery and intrigue and it left you wanting to know more. I especially liked that the friendships felt genuine. The teenage love is gag worthy as those of us who have to watch or hear “snogging” tend to always think! A perfect example of how Leigh Fallon was on the mark with colloquialisms. But, it was not nauseatingly over the top, which is the one thing that tends to make me run from romance books. I'm kind of a "want to see cool powers, good characters, a lot of butt kicking, and a good story" kind of reader. This book did not disappoint. It gave me a bit of everything I like in a book. The final thing I will say is The Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon is a perfect example of why so many adults are reading young adult urban fantasy these days. It's just a good book.