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"Lake Harmony twenty-seven miles," Deb sang over her shoulder to Michael. Read the first page
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If you liked the show, you'll love this book!
This gives the characters more defined lines when you come to watch the series and you can then work out where they are and how they got to the point that they are at in the series. A wonderful series of prequals and really sets the characters up for the series.
As with the first novel, I enjoyed this story. Its an easy read and once again succeeds in capturing the "voices" of the shows defined characters (In this novel, in addition to Brian, Michael, Uncle Vic and Debbie, we meet both Lindsay and Emmett for the first time).
A fun part of reading this book, again as with the other, is that the story incorporates aspects of the tv series, referencing events and foreshadowing character development.
This book begins just about where the first novel ended. Brian is starting college at Carnegie Mellon and Michael is off to community college.
This is Michael and Brian's first real time apart and I thought it was written very well. Michael's missing of Brian and Brian's nirvana at college (boys, boys, boys) are well depicted.
We are presented with Emmett for the first time and I must say that I think the author did an excellent job of writing him. Emmett is such a sweet and kind character, praise be sent to Peter Paige, that it would have easy to completely miss the complex person he is. Of all the characters, Emmett's voice seems so very true to the established namesake.
We meet Lindsay for the first time as well. I'm not so thrilled with her dipiction here, which is basically, as a clueless blonde. Thea Gill has done an amazing job of bringing Lindsay to life on the show, and to be honest, Lindsay as dicpicted here seems to be somewhat of a different person.
As with the first novel, there are a couple of "oh give me a break" sort of moments, the main one involving Lindsay, but all in all, this book is just fun to read.
We learn a little of where Brian's dictum originates from, and we also see Michael finally get a boyfriend and grow some.
Importantly, what is typically lacking in the series, is that Michael has some independent triumphs (and with no help from Brian) which was fun to read.
If you watch the TV series, the next book has some issues to deal with. Michael has stated in the show that he never completed his college years and this novel leaves him with a scholarship for year two. You can sense the direction likely to be taken and to be honest, if they go that way, it would be true to Michael as a character.
The extent that CowLip (the tv show's producers here in the US) is involved with the novels isnt clear to me, so there are no hard and fast rules to gaurantee the novels will follow the already defined character history though.
I would recomment this book, as I would the first novel, as a fun and easy read for the dedicated Queer As Folk fan. Its entertaining and thats what counts.
The QAF tv series relies heavily on the considerable acting ability of its cast, and it does them justice to say that it's their talent on the show that helps with the characters in the book.
If you're a fan, you'll like the book. Thats basically what it comes down to.
FYI - there are several sex scenes and they're explicit, which should be no surprise if you're a fan of the show.
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