"The Odd Couple'" got an awesome, five-star review over at
Rainbow-Reviews.com.
Click here to read it.
TOC keeps getting rave reviews. I'm very happy and
very proud. Thanks to everybody for all your kind words.
The review
follows below. WARNING: It contains mild
spoilers.
A multiverse of convolutions is the path for two women to meet on common
ground and learn to surrender grief to enjoy love.
Charlene lost her beloved and much-maligned son JP to suicide at home, nearly
three years ago. Daily she makes time to visit the grave, bringing small
children’s toys, even though JP was twenty-two when he took his own life in
despair and drug addiction. Charlene has repressed all memories of JP’s downhill
slide following his adolescent football injury, the substance abuse, and his
violence. Suddenly memory confronts her in the form of Gareth, a four-year-old
who exactly resembles JP at that age.
Gareth’s mother Morrisey immediately recognizes the photograph Charlene
thrusts on her of JP. Unfortunately, her memories are neither stale nor
repressed: JP was one of four who participated in a violent gang rape which
might have left Morrisey dead of exposure and cold. Instead, she miraculously
survived, concealed the event, and gave birth to a wonderful son, who is the
image of one of the rapists.
I’ve seldom read a book with more convolutions. It was entirely similar to
riding a Tunnel of Love in an amusement park, with the added attraction of
wonderfully done characterizations, taut plotting, and the quest to bring the
characters through successfully to the end so that they could truly discover
their own “Happily Ever Afters.” The Odd Couple is most definitely worth
reading, and its readership need not be limited to fans of Lesbian fiction. Oh,
no, this is a novel that deserves maximum readership exposure.
Q. Kelly’s talent in bringing these two disparate women, their families and
friends, and the rapists together in a web of complexity is simply astounding. I
found myself turning pages as quickly as possible to discover what the author’s
next “trick” would be. Simultaneously the story is totally realistic and viable.
The Odd Couple is a true don’t-miss novel, but don’t read it without tissues ~
and a warm partner ~ near at hand. | 
