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  The Hambledown Dream
  Dean Mayes

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  Long Live the Dream!

  08/09/2010

  I like everything about The Hambledown Dream. The dialogue is as good as the description. I like the characters. I like that none of the characters are extraneous, and that they are painted so that I can SEE them. I feel as if I know them now. The way the author slowly melded two souls into one body was brilliantly done, and I believed it ALL. It was romantic without being soppy, and there was just enough of a supernatural quality to make the whole book dream-like but possible. I particularly love the scenes in the bar in the U.S. (especially when he's playing his guitar), and the scenes at the concert and in the small seaside town in Australia. The whole concert portion gave me chills - it was beautifully drawn, and I was THERE, in the audience, and on the stage simultaneously. The ending was perfection - Mayes wrapped it all up, and then went that extra mile to give us an idea of what their future would be like together - I appreciated that, because I wanted to know for certain that their lives would work out - at least in terms of being happy together. Whatever life throws at them in the future, it is nice to know that they will face things together, come what may. I am also very pleased that the author allowed the father a chance to get to know his son, and that both father and son were willing. Many authors would have stopped on the beach - I'm SO glad Mayes carried it on and gave the reader closure. I have purposefully been as non-specific as possible when it comes to characters and events in the hope that you will be intrigued enough to get a copy of this book and experience it for yourself, yet rest assured in the knowledge that I have spoiled nothing of the wonderment you will experience.
  I look forward to Maye's next book with great anticipation.