Josh Aterovis

The first book in the Killian Kendall Mystery was probably my first gay themed young adult, and it will always have a special place in my memory. The story between Killian and Seth was heartbreaking, even if there wasn’t really a love story between them, and then the happiness Killian found with Asher was refreshing. But as often happen, when you read about teenager in love, your first thought, or at least my first thought, when I close the book is: how many chances do they have to be still together in 5 years from now? The last years of high school, the beginning of college, are moments in life where people change, life changing moments, and so it was for Killian.

At the beginning of this novel, it’s clear that his love story with Asher is at the end, I haven’t read the second book in the series, so sorry, I don’t know if this is something that had already began, but even considering All Lost Things a stand alone book, it’s a reasonable event. The title of the book, All Lost Things, has different meanings, and one of them I think is the loosing of innocence, the innocence linked with being young. Killian and Asher are growing and their paths to adulthood are different.

The same lost of innocence is also happening to Caleb, Asher’s new love interest, a strange boy, younger than Asher; when Asher realizes that he is loosing Killian, for no other apparently reason if not that they are growing apart, he searches in Caleb someone else to “protect”, someone that is still malleable. The book has two subplots; one of them is Caleb’s case: Caleb’s abusive father is dead in a fire, and Caleb is main suspect.

The second subplot is something more ethereal, but not less scaring: Steve and Adam, Killian’s “adoptive” parents, want to open a B&B in an ancient mansion which people believe being haunted by the ghost of a woman, Amalie, dead in the vain waiting of the return of his husband lost in sea. Again a “loosing” factor, again innocent characters that couldn’t do anything again fate.

Other than his two cases to train as private investigator, there is a also a new love story for Killian, this time with a more adult flavour: Killian and Asher were teenager, and their relationship was made of kisses and jealousy, of gossip and maybes; Killian and Micah instead have something stronger and important, something that maybe have more changes to survive the time passing.

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When I bought this book its genre was mystery teen. So not romance. And I usually don't buy any other genre then romance. But I like teens story, always had, teens are so young and innocent and full of hope. And so I was very tempted to buy this book, but I hesitated a moment, since the blurb said that a young guy was killed in the first part of the book. But then I though, how much I can feel for a character who stays on the book for only few pages? And so, thinking that I will be not too touched by this fact I bought the book. And I was wrong. Oh no, not in buying the book but in thinking that I would not be involved by Seth's death. I almost cry, and if I really not cried in that precise moment, I cried some page later.

Killian is an average 16 years old guy in a small town USA. He is from a wealthy family, an apparent happy family. But lately Killian starts to see his father with different eyes and he thinks his mother is only a paper doll wife without personality of her own. And then the first day of school he meets Seth, new on town. Seth is up front from the first day, he is gay and he wants to be friend with Killian. Killian knows that he will have trouble frequenting Seth, but then maybe it's a way to prove who he is, that he is different from all the other guys, people who treat him like wallpaper.

But then Seth kisses him and Killian is shocked: Seth says that he believes that also Killian was guy, and maybe he is right. Killian has to answer to some questions by his own and then maybe he will ask to Seth something else. Yes, cause if Killian is gay, then he is for sure not in love with Seth, cause the guy he pictures in his mind is Asher, his best friend from childhood. But Asher is straight, worst he hungs out with the guys who harrass Seth. And so maybe, since Killian is a young boy, and he is very curious, he will allow to Seth to do something more than a kiss... but before they can do anything else, Seth is killed and Killian stabbed soon after.

The police thinks that Seth's murder is a muggling went wrong, Killian and Seth's father think different, and then Killian's father throws his son out of home when he learns his son is gay. Adam, Seth's father, takes Killian with him and for Killian will start a new life, with him experimenting his newfound sexuality, and making a lot of error but also having some nice experience whom he least expects. But Seth's killer is out there and he has not finished yet.

There are a lot of kisses in this book but not even a little sex scenes... I'm disappointed? Hell, no!!! I like a lot all that kisses and above all I like a lot who Killian chooses to exchange that kisses, even if I will not say who he is, you should read the book to discover it. Yes, cause another very interesting side of the book is that it's a mystery inside another mystery: there is the big one question, Who is Seth's killer, but there is also the other little question around, Who will be Killian's boyfriend? I for sure, as romantic as I am, liked better to find out the second one, but for who loves a good mystery, I bet you to find out before the end the answer to the first one.

Josh Atevoris is a relly good discovery: I found him cause we share some books in LibraryThing and when I saw his profile, and I saw he wrote two books, I decided to give him a try. And when one of my discovery comes out to be a soo good one, I'm even more happy!

Now I have to read the second in the Killian Kendall mystery and I read that Josh Aterovis just wrote also 3 and 4 even if I still don't know how to find them.

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