HELLO FRIENDS, I HAVE A TREAT FOR YOU TODAY, MARINIEVES CORDERO-GUZMAN IS MY GUEST REVIEWER FOR THIS ONE! I HAVE HER REVIEW, AN EXCERPT AND BUY LINKS, AN AUTHOR BIO AND SOCIAL LINKS, AND A RAFFLECOPTER GIVEAWAY, SO LET'S GET GOIN:
MARI PICKED THE QUOTE AND RATING PIC, YOU GO GIRL! HERE IS HER REVIEW:
Whispers of Home (Pickleville #1) by: April Kelly
reviewed by: Marinieves
All Jaron McAllister wanted to do was
get out of the small town where he grew up. After being bullied all
his life for being gay, that’s exactly what he does. He loses all
contact with everyone in the town of Pickleville, including his
emotionally distant mother and the only true friend he ever had.
When his best friend and mother of the
child they share, get murdered he knows he must ask for help in the
one place he thought he would never go back to. Coming back home
isn’t easy and finding himself attracted to the town man-slut
spells disaster. Travis Heath isn’t at all what his reputation
suggests though.
I have to start saying that Whispers of Home is my first book by April Kelley and I am so glad I had to opportunity to read it. What a refreshing story.
Jaron McAllister couldn’t wait to get out of the small town where he grew up, Pickleville. Jaron was openly gay and not accepted by his high school peers. As soon as he graduated He left town. Needless to say his life was not easy and all the things came crashing down when his best friend and mother of the child they share, gets murdered. Jaron’s instincts are to go back home.
Travis Heath has a reputation and has been considered the town “slut” but there is more than meets the eye. Behind all that gossip, Travis is a completely different person. When Jaron and Travis see each other again all of the past feelings from High school come blasting back, but they have to think about the homophobes in town and also of Bobby, Jaron’s son.
I have to say, I love the banter between them, the way they treated each other and the funny way the author integrated the families into the story. Jaron and Travis felt right and they decided to become what they wanted, a family.
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Jaron looked through the window of the diner from across the street. His mother’s hands gripped a mug, probably full of coffee. Jaron thought he was meeting Brian but apparently Brian had other plans. Brian always did think he knew best, the bastard. Jaron was fully aware his oldest friend had set this up, probably getting in touch with Gloria McAllister right after Jaron had called the first time, telling her when Jaron would be here. Brian had never understood that the relationship Jaron and Gloria had wasn’t like the relationship Brian had with his own father.
Looking at his mom through the glass
was like watching a movie of her. He had never felt the connection
with his mom that he thought he should, even as a small child. Maybe
that had been his fault. That he wasn’t quite what she wanted in a
son and therefore kept just enough distance to make it seem like
miles. Which was why he was confused she had come instead of Brian.
When he was eighteen years old he had
thought he left because of a burning desire to fit in somewhere,
because he certainly hadn’t fit in very well in Pickleville. He
needed that connection to another human being, that knowing he was so
important to another human being they just couldn’t live without
him. Ironically, it was a five year old boy he felt unconditionally
connected too. Now that he knew the unconditional love a parent felt
for their child, he wondered at his mother’s parental instincts.
He stood on the sidewalk in front of
what used to be a place called the Hobbyist’s Dream but was now an
Asian market. He noticed the place was empty when he had arrived but
his back was turned now, his complete attention on the woman in the
window. He thought the Asian place probably wouldn’t have lasted
long back in the day. Who knows now? The diner was the only one in
town, or was until they put in a McDonald’s by the highway. Jaron
hadn’t realized that things in this town could change until the bus
passed by the fast food restaurant. Somehow he expected everything to
be the same, as if time would stand still just because he didn’t
feel any different now that he was here.
Standing here, he felt that maybe he
left to put the physical miles between himself and the only parent he
had ever known. He had never fit in with her either.
He felt a tug on his hand and looked
down at sweet blue eyes. This small boy was as dependent on the next
few minutes and the woman in the window as he was. “I’m thirsty,”
Bobby said, around the thumb in his mouth.
“Me too. Let’s go.” Jaron stepped
off the curb and onto the street, gripping onto Bobby’s hand just a
little tighter, pausing for a car, and then continuing until he came
within inches of his mother, the glass the only barrier now. She
looked directly at him, showing more emotion in those few seconds
than he had ever seen from her during his entire childhood. He looked
away and walked through the door of the restaurant. YES, I KNOW, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THIS BOOK, YEAH I SO DON'T BLAME YOU ;p NOW FOR APRIL'S BIO AND SOCIAL LINKS:Born and raised in Southwest Michigan, April lives with her husband and two kids. She has been an avid reader for several years. Writing her first story at the age of ten, the characters in her head still won't stop telling their stories. If April isn't reading or writing she can be found outside playing with a farm full of animals or taking a long walk in the woods.
Where
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If
you wish to contact her please email
mailto:authoraprilkelley@gmail.com.
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