He meets and befriends Jay, but before anything can happen Jay has A LOT of baggage to work through. Scott is a funeral director, working in the family business. That is the tragedy at the center of this story and the grief and guilt is almost crippling. When he had finally gathered the courage to tell his wife, he loses her. Jay has been battling his inner demons where his sexuality is concerned for some time now. I liked reading about the sweet romance between Jay Warren and Scott Lawson. However, despite that, the story itself is more than pleasing for me. I think normally I would have been ok with slow for the past part but combined with mid-level angst I was sorely tempted to skip parts (in fact, I will admit, I skipped the end of some chapters to move along a bit). One of the problems I had with this book was probably the amount of angst – I’m not a massive fan of angsty books – and another problem is that the story was a tad slow. What you read in the blurb is what you get in the book, so no big surprises there. Unfortunately, For the living is one of those books. I will try not to be too negative in my review because there was definitely a number of elements that I did enjoyed and allowed me to finish the book instead of just quitting.įor me L.A Witt is not on my go to author list, in fact her books are very much hit or miss and half the time if it’s a miss I can’t pinpoint exactly why. It is most like a combination of factors, which I will explain. It wasn’t so much the story, I enjoyed the story and have enjoyed similar story lines immensely in the past.
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He offers Jay some much-needed compassion and understanding, and from that connection comes a friendship that quickly – perhaps too quickly – turns into something more.īut are grief, guilt, and loneliness the only things tying them together? Or, will Scott get fed up with being used as an emotional crutch before Jay realizes what he has?
When his wife dies suddenly, Jay’s conscience threatens to eat him alive.įuneral director Scott Lawson deals with the bereaved every day, and he’s all too familiar with the inside of the closet. He’s ashamed of hiding it all this time, he doesn’t want to hurt her, and the guilt has been almost unbearable. Every time he gets the chance, though, he freezes up. Blurb: For the last year, Jay Warren has struggled to find the nerve to tell his wife he’s gay.
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