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Waking Up Gray (2011)

by R.E. Bradshaw(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0983572003 (ISBN13: 9780983572008)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

R. E. BRADSHAW BOOKS

review 1: A Wonderful Read... I am working my way to reading all the books by R. E. Bradshaw and so far I loved them. I particularly like the interlacing of characters from previous books and hope this continues. You don't need to read them in order they do stand alone, I just love the writing style of each book, the main characters are great but the friends are often really quite special.We Brits get all funny at the mention of the word Fanny but I have to say there is a lot of Fanny to love about this book. I absolutely love Aunt Fanny! Her views on the Bible her practical way of dealing with life, her food (I felt hungry all the way through this book)… I found her to be the jewel in the crown on so many levels. If you like to highlight you will be in your element with this old ... morewomen! It breaks my heart that she is quite old… but I would still ask her out for a date… She genuinely has funny bones! The dialect is wonderful and took me right back to days listening to my very old Cockney and Scottish Relatives chatting away over endless cups of tea. I was with this book all the way through and it was blinking marvellous! Rarely is an author so good that just to touch the cover makes me smile, Waking up Gray is one of my forever favourites. The banter that passes between people who just fit well together, works for me. I have had a great 2012 reading R. E. Bradshaw books… the Rainey Bell Mysteries I will read again and again… Off now to purchase - Before it Stains for my Birthday! Thanks Ms. Bradshaw you’re a Jem!
review 2: I can’t remember how I first “met” R. E. “Decky” Bradshaw on line. I’m pretty sure it was at a podcast of lesbian fiction, probably in 2011, but I can no longer find traces of that event.All I remember is her magical, rich, descriptive words transporting me back to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where I spent not enough time during my North Carolina college years. I was hooked, and I purchased Waking Up Gray and devoured it.“Rich” is the word that keeps popping up – not only for the landscape in which her fiction immerses the reader, but for the texture and complexity of the characters and their relationships. For me, this is lesbian romantic fiction at its best: Real, ordinary people, living out their lives, finding true love, struggling (for some) with sexual identity issues, and claiming their passions.I’ve followed her on Facebook and dropped in on her blog occasionally since then, so I’ve come to have some sense of how her history feeds her marvelous stories. A product of those Outer Banks, she describes herself as a reckless tomboy in her childhood, getting into endless scrapes, both with and without her brother. I’d love to know how much of Gray’s character is unadulterated Decky – lots, I’m guessing, an electrifying counterpoint to the more sedate and scholarly Lizbeth, who’s never kissed a girl.The romance between Gray and Lizbeth unfolds with just the right doses of madly-falling-in-love and heartbreaking misunderstandings, and is punctuated by the dangers of a tropical storm bearing down, as they so often do, on the Outer Banks. This review wouldn’t be complete without a shout-out for Decky’s wry sense of humor, complete with impeccable timing and keen observation skills. Laugh-out-loud moments were too numerous to count, which is also true for her blog and Facebook posts.I loved everything about this book and award it five stars. If you buy it, I’m sure you’ll be back for more from this award winning lesfic author. less

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