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Die Blechdose (2014)

by Kim Fielding(Favorite Author)

4.37 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1632166747 (ISBN13: 9781632166746)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: William is a grad student working on his dissertation. Almost stereotypically, his field is psychology, working with statistics the drier the better, and he's got plenty of his own problems. He's about as repressed as a man can be having grown up with religious parents who believed homosexuality was a sin that people chose. He had married, but is just going through a divorce and desperately needs a quiet place to stay. His mentors suggest a post as a sort of live-in caretaker at an abandoned insane asylum that just needs someone in residence in order to make sure trespassers or squatters don't damage the property further.I worried that the story might be just too horrific and grim, considering how people were treated in those old insane asylums. The details were terri... moreble indeed, but it didn't overwhelm the sweet story of William finding himself and falling for Colby. Colby is a local, an out and proud (he just can't be otherwise) young man who helps out his grandparents at the closest general store. At the asylum, William finds letters written by a man who was an inmate many years ago. The letters are sad, but there is an uplifting silver-lining. And the asylum, situated way, way far away from civilization, could have been the setting for a typical horror story, but it wasn't. This was a sweet, and moving, love story.The elements were all handled well and they all added up to a very, very good read. This book is definitely recommended! I've read a number of very enjoyable m/m books lately, but this was a stand-out.
review 2: There are some books and some characters which are going to stay with me for a long time. This book and Bill, one of the characters, fall into this category.I really enjoyed the story of Will and Corby but I loved Bill. The letters that he wrote were heartbreaking and when I finally found out Bill's fate I was devastated. It says a lot about my involvement with him that Bill was on my mind long after I finished the book. To me he became real and all I wanted was for him to have a little bit of happiness in his life. Condemned to an asylum for being gay he undergoes so much in the name of finding a cure. All he leaves behind are the letters that he wrote to the man he loved. Letters which were never posted and never read before being found by Will.But this story is also about Will and Corby. Will has taken a job as caretaker at the now closed asylum as he goes through his divorce and writes his dissertation. Read now closed asylum and single person living alone there and I kept thinking how could this not be a horror story? It is a horror story in a way and it is a ghost story in a way but not in the way that you think.We watch Will as he comes into his own as a proud gay man. We watch his and Corby as they learn to love and to trust. Maybe they will get to have what Bill and Johnny didn't.I loved this book. less

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