Marrying Tom

Rating:
Summary: Could be a better read
Review: Opposites attract is the main theme in the book. This theme may be as old as time but still held an alluring fascination. Marrying Tom starts off brilliantly but fails to deliver a quarter way through the book. The development of the relationship between Daniel and Tom could be handled much better. More passionate and soul searching perhaps! Tom remains a shadow throughout the story. I am just frustrated that the author did not attempt to delve more into Tom's feelings for Daniel. Tom must surely sees alot in Daniel to be attracted to him. Tom is 16 and Daniel is 13. But Tom's emotions is not analysed at all. However the ending is quite good, when Daniel's father has to analyse his son feelings for Tom. I do not care about the background plot of the struggle between our heroes and the gansters - too much emphasis! I just wish Geraci could have place more effort on the emotions development between Daniel and Tom.

Rating:
Summary: A Great Suspense book, and a bit of love thrown in!
Review: This was an exceptional book! There is a great deal of young love, mixed with heavy drugs and gangs from the late 1960's in `small-town' America.

Essentially the book is about a boy named Tom, a sixteen year old new arrival in a small American town of Madalin. He is Protestant boy and a major rebel with an extremely bad reputation, both in his new town, as well as back in Long Island where he lived before.

Danny is thirteen and from a well established town family. He is `the' model Catholic boy and a member of the choir and star Diver on the swimming team. The two boys belong to what you would consider being rival gangs (Tom a bad group of people, and Danny, his established group of friends), but, for all their differences, are inevitably drawn together.

A love story flourishes in the midst of unlikely pair. This is a modern, yet not as depressing a version of Romeo and Juliet. (two people not meant to be together, but are drawn to one another).

The fatal attraction of opposites is told in this touching story of growing up gay in small-town America.

I was very impressed with this book and would highly recommend you pick it up and read it.

Rating:
Summary: A Great Suspense book, and a bit of love thrown in!
Review: This was an exceptional book! There is a great deal of young love, mixed with heavy drugs and gangs from the late 1960's in 'small-town' America.

Essentially the book is about a boy named Tom, a sixteen year old new arrival in a small American town of Madalin. He is Protestant boy and a major rebel with an extremely bad reputation, both in his new town, as well as back in Long Island where he lived before.

Danny is thirteen and from a well established town family. He is 'the' model Catholic boy and a member of the choir and star Diver on the swimming team. The two boys belong to what you would consider being rival gangs (Tom a bad group of people, and Danny, his established group of friends), but, for all their differences, are inevitably drawn together.

A love story flourishes in the midst of unlikely pair. This is a modern, yet not as depressing a version of Romeo and Juliet. (two people not meant to be together, but are drawn to one another).

The fatal attraction of opposites is told in this touching story of growing up gay in small-town America.

I was very impressed with this book and would highly recommend you pick it up and read it.