Blue Skye is about Drew Adams and Skye Taylor. Both about twenty-five years old. They haven’t seen each other since that one glorious graduation night seven years ago, when their true feelings for each other came out. Now things are about to get heated…again. This story is told in third person through Drew and Skye’s eyes.



Skye and Drew grew up in Woodland Village a quiet town near the ocean. Skye’s parents were both artistic and encouraged him in exploring his talents and accepted him for who he was. He became a successful artist living in Manhattan. He returns to town to settle things with his parents’ estate now that his mother has passed and to put on an art show his friend Carl has arranged. Drew on the other hand, grew up in a rich family with a father who controlled everything and set out Drew’s life like a roadmap. Drew is a successful architect with his own company and has a wife, Sam. He tells himself he’s content, but we find out he’s not and that they don’t sleep together anymore.

That fateful graduation night seven years ago, Skye and Drew pledged to move to Manhattan together but Drew chickened out and stayed. Skye left. They haven’t seen each other until Skye’s return. Which now that I think of it is surprising since if Skye’s parents lived in Woodland Village, wouldn’t he have come back and visited them? I suppose he could have avoided Drew during his visits. The story starts immediately with Skye’s and Drew’s first meetup in the gallery being setup for Skye’s art show. Drew is putting in the finishing touches. It’s painfully clear that Skye is in love with Drew and has never stopped loving him. It’s also clear that Drew wants Skye, but he has made his own prison, refusing to divorce Sam, refusing to stand up to his father, and letting both direct his life. Skye throws his world into confusion.

I could feel Skye’s desperate longing to be with Drew, and Drew’s painful iron grip to keep under control his desires and need to be with Skye. We do find out Drew has cheated before and he does cheat with Skye. So if you don’t like stories with cheating spouses than this story may not be for you. The two men dance painfully around each other, coming together and then fleeing from each other until they come together again. Don’t expect outside events that these characters react too, this story is all about the emotional tug of war they have within themselves and with each other. I found it intense but I couldn’t stop reading.

Drew appears cold and distance. After a while I got fed up with him giving Skye hope, then snatching it away. Skye may have been a bit arrogant, but he wore his heart on his sleeve for Drew. He’d give Drew anything if Drew would only leave his wife and confront his father. There was no mistaking that Skye loved Drew long before he told him. Both men did something that could be considered unforgiveable. First, Drew took Skye home with him and when Sam came home and told Skye that Drew was just using him to get Skye out of his system because he’d never leave her, Drew admitted he’d never leave her. It devastated Skye that he was played. So he went out and got drunk and then went back to the Drew’s home. When he got there, Drew’s father was there and Skye outed Drew. There was a big fight and Skye went back to Manhattan, although he finally came back to Woodland Village.

Both these men seemed realistic to me. Drew being so in control of hiding and submerging his desires, that he appeared to be a cold person. But he wasn’t happy. At the end I picture them to still be working out their issues because both men are stubborn and have strong personalities, in their own way. I thought the last line of the story was perfect. Skye needed to hear it and Drew needed to say it in order to start his new life with Skye.

For me this book was intense emotionally with the pushing and pulling between Skye and Drew. Both men had flaws. I thought Drew was weak and unkind for how he treated Skye, but at the same time it seemed he needed someone in his life who was strong to help him. Also someone who was strong enough to back away when needed. I can only think that Skye loved him tremendously to put up with the crap Drew did and that Skye must be an optimist.

I tend to compare cover characters to the character in a book. I have the ebook with the two men’s faces on the front and I have to say, they appear too young and don’t look anything like the characters in the story to me. I think the latest Kindle version cover with the blond, looks more like Drew and is the nicest.

This is a different kind of read from the HEA books I usually read. It seemed more realistic in terms of characters, even though there was the evil wife and controlling, homophobic parent. I enjoyed the other side characters that revolved around Skye and Drew. This is an engrossing, fast read and I give Blue Skye, 4 Stars




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The story of Skye and Drew is like the one of the moth with the flame, you know that you will get hurt, but nevertheless you search your own pain, maybe since at least pain is a feeling, the proof that you have something.

Skye and Drew were bestfriend in high school: Drew liked Skye and Skye’s family since they were happy and free, something he didn’t have with his own family, and Skye liked Drew… well since he liked Drew. Skye was gay, a big word in the mouth of a teenager, but he was so sure, and thanks to the support of his family he didn’t have any issue in claiming it. And he was in love with Drew, and even if Drew was not declaring his love back, Skye, with the security that only a teenager can have, was sure that sooner or later his love would have been paid. But as a teenager he was also eager, and one night he pushed too much: he got Drew drunk and then they made love. He was so sure the morning after Drew would leave the small town with him to pursue their dream in the big city, but he was disappointed. Not only Drew didn’t leave with him, he got married and remained even more in the closet than before.

Now years later Skye is in town again and again, like a moth with a flame, he is sniffing around Drew, wanting for him to admit that he is gay, and above all that he is love with Skye. They are grown, but Skye’s security is the same. But also Drew is the same and he is firmly in the closet. I don’t know if I like both Skye and Drew for their starcrossed love or if I hate both of them for their stubborness. Skye seems unable to understand that is not pushing Drew that he will obtain his love, and Drew behaves more like a teenager, scared of his parents’ opinion, that a grown adult.

Both of them do mistakes, maybe those of Skye are a little more on the face of everyone, but sincerely Drew’s reaction is a bit exaggerated: he spent the last months “playing” with Skye, letting him glimpse happiness, to then deny him even the little comfort, and then he is pissed since the man did one big mistake? By the way, even if it’s only told by a third point of view, apparently Drew had other same sex relationships, and he was not only in love with Skye, but he was also married, so it’s not that he has a model behavior; at least Skye, with his stubborn love (no matter what people is telling him, he is in love with Drew), is more honest and true to himself.

I did like the setting, a small Cape Cod town, it was really both peaceful than a bit desperate housewife.

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