Venetian Masks
By Kim Fielding
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Jeff Dawkins’s last partner left him with a mortgage he can’t afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month’s vacation in Europe. Despite a reluctance to travel, Jeff decides to go on the trip anyway. After all, he’s already paid for it. He packs a Kindle loaded with gay romance novels and arrives in Venice full of trepidation. There he meets the handsome and charming expat Cleve Prieto, who offers to serve as his tour guide. Jeff has serious misgivings—he wasn’t born yesterday, and something about Cleve doesn’t sit right—but anything is better than wandering the canals alone. With Cleve’s help, Jeff falls in love with Venice and begins to reconcile with his past. For the first time, Jeff finds himself developing strong feelings for someone else. But he can’t be sure who that person is because Cleve’s background remains a mystery embroidered with lies.
Then a dark figure from Cleve’s past appears, and Jeff must choose whether to let Cleve flee alone or to join him on a desperate run through central Europe. Maybe Jeff will finally be able to see behind Cleve’s masks—if he survives the journey.
Winner in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.
Fourth (tie): Best LGBT Cover – Illustration
Kim Fielding
Kim Fielding is very pleased every time someone calls her eclectic. Winner of the BookLife Prize for Fiction, a Lambda Award finalist and three-time Foreword INDIE finalist, she has migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States and currently lives in California, where she long ago ran out of bookshelf space. She's a university professor who dreams of being able to travel and write full time. She also dreams of having two daughters who fully appreciate her, a husband who isn't obsessed with football, and a house that cleans itself. Some dreams are more easily obtained than others. Kim can be found on her website: http://kfieldingwrites.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KFieldingWrites and Twitter: @KFieldingWrites Her e-mail is kim@kfieldingwrites.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There is a lot to this book, and having only read it once, I have a feeling I missed some things.
A lot of this story is hidden at the beginning and we learn about Cleve slowly. He seems very mysterious at first. What I like about Jeff is that he is not stupid. He clearly realizes that Cleve is lying out his rear, but he makes the decision to just let it ride. So often in romances our hero is oblivious, and in this case Jeff has his eyes wide open.
I enjoyed the travel aspect of this novel, I really felt like I was exploring the areas. Fielding was amazing at making us feel how it is when you do not understand the language and how scary that must be.
The mystery part of it was very over the top Bourneish, but heck, this is fiction, so I just went with it.
Overall, very enjoyable book.