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From Publishers Weekly
Part spicy contemporary romance, part tragic love story, Brewer's debut, which is being positioned as a Love Story for the 1990s (and does bear some surface resemblance in plot and tone to Segal's novel), should have broad appeal based more on its compelling story than its uneven and often overblown pose. Alexandra Taylor draws human figures for academic books. When a sexy, sensitive, motorcycle-riding medical student named Eric Moro shows up at her door?he's to be her nude model?Alex recoils at first at Eric's blatant, easygoing charm, then falls wildly in love. In three months, she's broken up with her boyfriend and moved in with Eric. But their breathless romance is altered forever when Eric announces that a routine AIDS test has shown up positive. The information is somehow relayed to the internship programs where Eric has applied, curtailing his medical career. Alex, who is free of the disease, begins a legal battle over leak of the confidential information while she struggles with Eric's physical demise and her own terror over his impending death. A subplot involving Eric's frosty relationship with his staunchly Catholic father provides tension and an additional tragic twist. The dialogue is often contrived and seems tailored for a filmscript, and sentimentality is rampant. The novel's strengths lie in Brewer's well-paced storytelling and her use of her own experiences (she has served as Associate Medical Director of a prominent AIDS clinic), which lend authenticity and vivid detail to her love story.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The first half of Brewer's novel sweeps readers up with its intense, minute rendering of a passionate love affair between medical student Eric Moro and artist Alexandra Taylor, whom he meets when modeling for a textbook she is illustrating. Brewer catches well the small, telling moments in the development of love, from initial sensual stirrings through passionate involvement to long-lasting commitment. When Eric learns he has AIDS, the pace slows as Brewer catalogs Alexandra's fears as Eric's condition deteriorates. Eventually, Alexandra must contact Eric's rigid, judgmental family, who have disapproved of their son for as long as he can remember, and then help him fight to preserve his independence as his life drains away. An emotionally touching story told with exquisite care, this novel may also prove to be the one that communicates the agony of AIDS to mainstream, heterosexual readers more effectively than the many gay-themed books concerned with it. Whitney Scott
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Part spicy contemporary romance, part tragic love story, Brewer's debut, which is being positioned as a Love Story for the 1990s (and does bear some surface resemblance in plot and tone to Segal's novel), should have broad appeal based more on its compelling story than its uneven and often overblown pose. Alexandra Taylor draws human figures for academic books. When a sexy, sensitive, motorcycle-riding medical student named Eric Moro shows up at her door?he's to be her nude model?Alex recoils at first at Eric's blatant, easygoing charm, then falls wildly in love. In three months, she's broken up with her boyfriend and moved in with Eric. But their breathless romance is altered forever when Eric announces that a routine AIDS test has shown up positive. The information is somehow relayed to the internship programs where Eric has applied, curtailing his medical career. Alex, who is free of the disease, begins a legal battle over leak of the confidential information while she struggles with Eric's physical demise and her own terror over his impending death. A subplot involving Eric's frosty relationship with his staunchly Catholic father provides tension and an additional tragic twist. The dialogue is often contrived and seems tailored for a filmscript, and sentimentality is rampant. The novel's strengths lie in Brewer's well-paced storytelling and her use of her own experiences (she has served as Associate Medical Director of a prominent AIDS clinic), which lend authenticity and vivid detail to her love story.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The first half of Brewer's novel sweeps readers up with its intense, minute rendering of a passionate love affair between medical student Eric Moro and artist Alexandra Taylor, whom he meets when modeling for a textbook she is illustrating. Brewer catches well the small, telling moments in the development of love, from initial sensual stirrings through passionate involvement to long-lasting commitment. When Eric learns he has AIDS, the pace slows as Brewer catalogs Alexandra's fears as Eric's condition deteriorates. Eventually, Alexandra must contact Eric's rigid, judgmental family, who have disapproved of their son for as long as he can remember, and then help him fight to preserve his independence as his life drains away. An emotionally touching story told with exquisite care, this novel may also prove to be the one that communicates the agony of AIDS to mainstream, heterosexual readers more effectively than the many gay-themed books concerned with it. Whitney Scott
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