Mountain Magic [Paperback]

Willa Okati (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2007

A collection of three novellas of Gay Romance by Willa Okati. A Year and a Day, Unspoken and The Letter.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Willa Okati has done yet another masterful job in A Year and a Day. The love between Ash and Slate is readily apparent and the huge sense of loss Slate felt when Ash died made me sad as well. I wondered if I would get a satisfying ending from A Year and a Day and I definately did.

About the Author

Willa Okati has a hundred and one different stories to tell, and she's getting there one book at a time. Permanently glued to her computer chair in front of a laptop, she can be found pounding the keys from before dawn until after dusk. She's delighted to have found a home at Samhain, where she can write her Appalachian-with-a-twist paranormal stories. Coffee is her best friend and her lifesaver; cats are her muses; her bookshelves are groaning under the weight of a tremendous collection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Samhain Publishing (May 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599983818
• ISBN-13: 978-1599983813
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,414,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary M/M fantasy romance at its best. The plots and characters are exceptional!, May 21, 2007

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R.Parklane (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mountain Magic (Paperback)

I love all 3 stories and am very glad to read them again in print. It is hard to pick a favorite but if I have to it will be either "A year and a day" or "The Letter". As it is Willa's trademark, these 3 love stories are laced with fantasy elements and told with such heartfelt emotions and passion. All 3 M/M stories happened in a small rural town and are loosely connected by friendship and a pair of female lovers who are related to two of the guys.
"A year and a day" is the longest and is beautifully rendered and most touching. Each word is heartfelt as the reader feels Slate's loss sharply. The fantasy element here is most imaginative. The lovers' pain as they thought they would be torn apart again just tugs at my heartstrings. I love the ending here.
"Unspoken" has a magical feel to it as Ian who lost his voice rediscovered himself and found love with a wandering bard. Their encounter and love may have happened in a day but this short story is warm and uplifting.
Lastly the highly emotional "The Letter" which I enjoy so much that I wrote a note to the writer thanking her for this exceptional love story about nearly losing the only thing you value in life. This story may be short but every word or sentence is just so meaningful and well expressed. The sex here is most erotic as the writer subtly describes the "color" contrast.
This is indeed a wondrous romantic M/M collection from Willa.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Letter by Willa Okati, December 12, 2008

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Elisa (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mountain Magic (Paperback)

The Letter is part of an old series by Willa Okati about a little community of artist in which strange things happen. In the first book, A Year and A Day, the desperation of a man allows him to resurrect his late lover. In Unspoken, a wandering minstrel brings back love and hope in the life of a lonely man. In this last, Brandon and Luke are taking different path in life. They were an happy couple, but Brandon has a job that doesn't allow him to leave, and Luke is taking a job offer that will bring him far from their community. They talked and both agreed that it's better like that, to not having regrets in the future. But the truth is that Brandon has not express his real feelings and he is deeply in pain from Luke's decision. On the other hand, Luke is only waiting for Brandon to say him "don't go", since he himself is not so sure of his decision.

But in this world where communication seems so easy, for real people don't talk. And so without a otherworldly intervention, Brandon and Luke will loose all they have. And the intervention, the sign, takes the form of a bunch of letters: it's quite nice to see that, what the modern world (the technology, the fame of success) is destroying, an old fashion thing like a letter will save.

The book is really all here, not much more: the fashion of this short story, lies all in the words, both said in the past by old Brandon and Luke, who talked through their letter, and said in the present by this new couple who will learn from the mistake of their predecessors.

I like very much when Willa Okati writes fairy tales, since the only possible definition of this tale is fairy. It's not a full paranormal story, there are not angels or demons who make their appearance, it's more a feeling, it's almost like one of those old tales that people tell beginning with "you will not believe it but..."