Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Kyle Green is a successful voice actor with a partner of ten years. Finishing up the latest season of the hit anime Ecos, Kyle feels a bit tired. He wakes up in the hospital having suffered a stroke at forty. His motor functions seem to be fine but he finds out that he is blind. This will make it impossible for his to continue his work with the animated series. When his partner Matt informs him that he just received a grant to work on Native American ruins for the next five years, Kyle insists that he go. Kyle reasons that the spark in the relationship was lost years ago and he should not stand in the way of Matt’s research.
With the help of his sister Lily, Kyle starts to learn how to live as a blind man. When Kyle sees spots of light while moving, Matt arranges for Kyle to see a neurologist. Kyle is experiencing Riddoch syndrome, where previously sighted people can see some things when in motion. He decides to try running. As he runs, he begins to see things in motion but is tripped up by a child’s tricycle. He is helped by Seth Caplan, a man who recently moved by to Chicago to help his mother. Seth offers to help Kyle home. He suggests Kyle finding a volunteer to run with. Kyle contacts the local advocacy agency who sets things up. Who should call Kyle but Seth? The men are definitely attracted to each other but each has what they consider baggage that they carry into the possible relationship.
I really enjoyed this book. Kyle seems to have everything at the beginning and loses it all within the first couple of chapters. Kyle, while upset he may never be able to anime again, he rebounds by doing audiobooks and commercials, which do not require synchronization with video. Seth is a lawyer who quit a large firm to work with a tech company which develops apps for adaptive technology. He came back to Chicago to help out with his mother who is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Kyle does not want to be a burden due to his blindness while Seth has something in his past he feels guilty about and has not been in a relationship in a while. The end is definitely a foreseeable happily ever after.
The cover by Anna Sikorska is perfect for this book. It has what appear to be two runners, bound by tether at the wrist. It could be from a scene right out of the book.
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Book Details
ebook, 200 pages
Expected publication: November 7th 2016 by Dreamspinner Press
ISBN 1634778928 (ISBN13: 9781634778923)
Edition LanguageEnglish
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 