reviews_and_ramblings | Bleeding Hearts by Josh Aterovis

When I bought this book its genre was mystery teen. So not romance. And I usually don't buy any other genre than romance. But I like teen stories, I have always had, teenagers are so young and innocent and full of hope. And so I was very tempted to buy this book, but I hesitated a moment, since the blurb said that a young guy was killed in the first part of the book. But then I though, how much can I feel for a character who stays on the book for only few pages? And so, thinking that I would have been not touched by the fact I bought the book. And I was wrong. Oh no, not in buying the book but in thinking that I would not been involved by Seth's death. I almost cried, and if I really didn't cry in that moment, I cried some pages later.

Killian is an average 16 years old guy in a small town USA. He is from a wealthy family, an apparent happy family. But lately Killian starts to see his father with different eyes and he thinks his mother is only a paper doll wife without personality of her own. And then the first day of school he meets Seth, new on town. Seth is up front from the first day, he is gay and he wants to be friend with Killian. Killian knows that he will have trouble frequenting Seth, but then maybe it's a way to prove who he is, that he is different from all the other guys, people who treat him like wallpaper.

But then Seth kisses him and Killian is shocked: Seth says that he believes that also Killian is gay, and maybe he is right. Killian has to answer to some questions by his own and then maybe he will ask to Seth something else. Yes, cause if Killian is gay, then he is for sure not in love with Seth, since the guy he pictures in his mind is Asher, his best friend from childhood. But Asher is straight, worst he hungs out with the guys who harrass Seth. And so, since Killian is a young boy, and very curious, he will allow to Seth to do something more than a kiss... but before they can do anything else, Seth is killed and Killian stabbed soon after.

The police thinks that Seth's murder is a muggling gone wrong, Killian and Seth's father think different, and then Killian's father throws his son out of home when he learns that his son is gay. Adam, Seth's father, takes Killian with him and for Killian will start a new life, with him experimenting his newfound sexuality, and making a lot of mistakes but also having some nice experiences with whom he least expects. But Seth's killer is out there and he has not finished yet.

There are a lot of kisses in this book but not even a little sex scenes... I'm disappointed? Hell, no!!! I like a lot all that kisses and above all I like a lot who Killian chooses to exchange that kisses with, even if I will not say who he is, you should read the book to discover it. Yes, since another very interesting side of the book is that it's a mystery inside another mystery: there is the big one question, Who is Seth's killer, but there is also the other little question around, Who will be Killian's boyfriend? I for sure, as romantic as I am, liked better to find out the second one, but for who loves a good mystery, I dare you to find out before the end the answer to the first one.

Josh Atevoris is a relly good discovery: I found him since we share some books in LibraryThing and when I saw his profile, and I saw he wrote two books, I decided to give him a try. And when one of my discovery comes out to be a soo good one, I'm even more happy!

Now I have to read the second in the Killian Kendall mystery and I read that Josh Aterovis just wrote also 3 and 4 even if I still don't know how to find them.

Amazon: Bleeding Hearts, 2nd edition (Killian Kendall Mysteries)
Amazon Kindle: Bleeding Hearts, 2nd edition (Killian Kendall Mysteries)
Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: P.D. Publishing, Inc.; 2 edition (December 14, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933720344
ISBN-13: 978-1933720340

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