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Title: The Christmas Throwaway
Author: RJ Scott
Narrator: Sean Crisden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-14
Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 164 votes
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Christmas is a time for giving - what do you do when no one gives a damn? For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go. Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn. Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?
Members Reviews:
A Sweet Turn of Events...
This is a sweet story about a boy tossed out and down on his luck and his journey to self-discovery and his determination to change the course he is on. Zach meets Ben, Ben begins to feel that tingle within but withholds until Zach is ready for unconditional love. This is their journey to happiness and it is a sweet, horrific, loving, detestable, accepting story that everyone can gain something from. RJ Scott's style and Sean Crisden's narration was a delight...a must read/listen
Beautiful story.
A bit slow but beautiful written. Love the plot storyline. Waiting to become a movie.
A new favorite
I loved it. I stayed up way too late because I had to know what happened. thank goodness for Christmas miracles.
DNF
ok story
but I could not get in to it.
the narrator oh dough very experince was not the one for this story.
I could not stanthe cheerful cadence
thrue this whole audio when the story was more serious than cheerful.
nope. this time this was not Matched well.
Super Sweet Holiday story - expert narration!
Zachs father beats him and tries to convert him when he finds out hes gay. He goes so far as to home school him to keep evil influences from him. On the eve of Zachs 18th birthday, when his father intends to force him to enlist in the military, Zach runs away. He doesnt have much money, doesnt get very far, but he does end up in the right place at the right time.
Ben is a young, new cop, doing his job, rousting a vagrant on a park bench on Christmas Eve. Zach is scared and cold and unlikely to make it overnight without help, but Bens town is small and doesnt offer much in terms of runaway support. So he offers Zach a place at his moms house for the night.
Well, one thing leads to another and Zachs story gets told. Everyone falls in love with Zach and eventually all of Bens friends and family are enlisted to help Zach out and to encourage Zach to stay and begin a new life.
Zach doesnt know what to do. His sister is still in his fathers clutches. Zach doesnt feel right accepting all this charity, but now that hes 18 he does has some choice in the matter of his life plan and he doesnt want to go home.
Zach accepts the help, eventually retrieves his sister, and starts life over with the help of Ben and his family.
Ben, who is 6 years older than Zach, keeps his hands to himself for as long as he possibly can. But between his own attraction and Zachs, by the time Zach is 19 the two have succumbed and begin a relationship that exceeds friendship.
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This is a very packed short story. It doesnt feel inadequate or rushed. Sure, it would have been nice to struggle along with Zach as he grows. Maybe the tension between he and Ben could have been stretched a bit more.
