Book Rec: Between Brothers by JM Snyder
Blurb:
Brian Thompson is living a lie. A successful businessman, Brian can't stay focused in a real relationship and cheats on Timothy, his longtime lover. A phone call from his younger brother Joey, whom Brian hasn't spoken to in years, makes him recognize the uncanny resemblance between the two men.
Joey is, in a word, perfect. In Brian's eyes, he always has been. When their mother is hospitalized, Joey asks his older brother to come home. He tells Brian he needs him, which is just what Brian wants to hear. But the long trip north gives Brian plenty of time to think about his brother, and he comes to realize an unsettling truth -- he is in love with Joey.
Suddenly Brian admits that he wants Joey in ways he knows he shouldn't. Can he come to terms with the way he feels before his unrequited love threatens to tear him -- and his relationships with Timothy and Joey -- apart?
My View:
This is probably one of the best books I have read all year, and maybe one of the best ever. I was completely drawn into the world of Brian and Joey and enjoyed the complex and multi-layered plot that JM Snyder built into this story.
At first, I was a little bit put off by Brian, and his tendency to use people. Not just Timothy, his partner, but several other men that he takes a fleeting pleasure in and then casts aside, but I began to understand, as the author delved deeper into Brian's Psyche, that this was the man's way of coping, because he had an ideal in his mind (His brother Joey) which no other man can ever hope to live up to.
Without giving too much of the story away, I would just like to recommend this as a good, emotional read that will draw you right in and keep you engaged till the very last page. It has a satisfying conclusion which left me with a huge smile on my face and a wish that it hadn't had to end.
Highly recommended.
Publisher: Lulu Press
Date Published: January 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4357-2092-3
Publisher: CreateSpace
Date Published: October 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4404-3605-5