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Cliffhanger
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Book:Cliffhanger
Author:Ulysses Grant Dietz
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published 12/30/2020
Pages:209 Pages
Genre: Multicultural Gay Fiction
Rated:Mature
Ulysses Dietz gifted me with this book, and I must admit Cliffhanger is what I would expect from this young man, meticulous, straight forwarded and intriguing. The story is set in New York City, a place familiar to me as well : as the story unfolds I ‘see it’ rather than read it with the authors bold desccriptions.
Two young men, a mysterious silver bowl, and a shuttered Victorian mansion steeped in the sadness of a family curse ...
The reader is immersed into the mystery as two young men meet, each beginning new jobs as curators in different sections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Alex White from a very wealthy NY family, and Alexander Browne who also shares a upper class heritage meet and are soon trying to unravel the secret of a forgotten inscribed bowl Xander finds in his departments possession.
While friendship grows and their relationship changes and deepens to more, we follow with them finding information about the bowl going back centuries with Alex’s family and then ironically twists thru Xanders. Mr. Dietz takes the reader thru a legacy of family madness and suicide as the young men find their lives are intertwined before birth, and the bowl is part of their destiny.
So many secrets are ferreted out; new families are discovered just moments away. Homes of the present and past are described vividly along with the new Mansion Cliffhanger, its opulence and grandeur. All through the story, Alex and Xander grow and realize the possibility that possibly their meeting was always meant to be, not just a coincidence.
The story of the bowl and its secrets of the dark unhappiness it brought was a magical tale, told by a wonderful storyteller…..Thank you Ulysses, for letting us see these two have a long and happy life…….a great read…..and a what happens now ending……
Book:Cliffhanger
Author:Ulysses Grant Dietz
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published 12/30/2020
Pages:209 Pages
Genre: Multicultural Gay Fiction
Rated:Mature
Ulysses Dietz gifted me with this book, and I must admit Cliffhanger is what I would expect from this young man, meticulous, straight forwarded and intriguing. The story is set in New York City, a place familiar to me as well : as the story unfolds I ‘see it’ rather than read it with the authors bold desccriptions.
Two young men, a mysterious silver bowl, and a shuttered Victorian mansion steeped in the sadness of a family curse ...
The reader is immersed into the mystery as two young men meet, each beginning new jobs as curators in different sections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Alex White from a very wealthy NY family, and Alexander Browne who also shares a upper class heritage meet and are soon trying to unravel the secret of a forgotten inscribed bowl Xander finds in his departments possession.
While friendship grows and their relationship changes and deepens to more, we follow with them finding information about the bowl going back centuries with Alex’s family and then ironically twists thru Xanders. Mr. Dietz takes the reader thru a legacy of family madness and suicide as the young men find their lives are intertwined before birth, and the bowl is part of their destiny.
So many secrets are ferreted out; new families are discovered just moments away. Homes of the present and past are described vividly along with the new Mansion Cliffhanger, its opulence and grandeur. All through the story, Alex and Xander grow and realize the possibility that possibly their meeting was always meant to be, not just a coincidence.
The story of the bowl and its secrets of the dark unhappiness it brought was a magical tale, told by a wonderful storyteller…..Thank you Ulysses, for letting us see these two have a long and happy life…….a great read…..and a what happens now ending……
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Finished Reading
January 31, 2021
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