Equal Pride Equality - Diversity - Community Vol. III Issue 6 Spring 2002

StoneWall Society GLBT Artists Book Review Josh Aterovis

"Bleeding Hearts"  Josh Aterovis Review by: Mountman      Bleeding Hearts is one of the best ‘Who-Done-It’s, that I’ve ever read. Josh definitely knows how to cast a suspicious eye on all characters. All through the story I was trying to figure out ‘Who Did It’! I was compelled to keep reading. I couldn’t put it down.        The main protagonist, Killian Travers Kendall, is a character which is hard not to love. He is a smart, handsome, and kind, 16 year old, which has been blind to his own sexuality. That is, until Seth, moves to town. Seth arrives after he came out to his mother. She freaked and sent him to live with Adam, Seth’s Father, who also happens to be gay.

     Killian and Seth don’t get to explore their new friendship for very long. Seth gets killed and Killian almost gets killed at the same time. Now comes the Who-Done-It. Through the whole story, I was thinking "You did it!" "He had the motive!" The hints are there. Suspicion is cast at Killian's own father and his lifelong buds, among others. Although Killian didn't have much in common with his buds. They grew up together, that was about it. At least until Seth came to town and opened a whole can of gay worms. There are numerous 'almosts' that happen to Killian, throughout the story. 

      ‘Bleeding Hearts’ also tells the coming out stories of several people. It gives the reader a look at numerous ways which coming out can go. There is the classic negative ‘Get Out of My House’ to quiet acceptance.

    From the post-log of ‘Bleeding Hearts’, 
“Josh Aterovis is a twenty-something starving artist from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he lives with his partner. Already a successful Internet author with many international readers, Bleeding Hearts is his first published book. He has won numerous awards for his writing and his book's web site: http://www.steliko.com/bleedinghearts. He has written two more books in the Killian Kendall series and is working on the fourth. Aterovis is a pseudonym meaning Black Sheep in Latin.” 

     He has finished the fourth in the series. You can find them online at the site listed.  ‘Bleeding Hearts‘ has only an excerpt. But, that is enough to get you hooked. Don’t worry; Josh’s site is set up so you can order the book. And you can read the remaining stories online… I don’t know how long Josh will keep them up, so you better hurry and check out his site. 

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