Review: When Love Is Not Enough

When Love Is Not Enough by Wade Kelly

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I’m still heartbroken.
A difficult book to read. A harder reality to face.
I don´t tend to read books with a heavy load of religion in them, I try to stay away from the whole controversy about how God sees gay people.
In this book it took me by surprised and I hated the characters that used religion to hide their own fears and hatred.
When Love Is Not Enough...so much can happen in 6 years of life.
The story is told from 3 different POVs; Matt, Darian and Jamie, the latest being the link between them three.
When Jim decided to take his own life, he left behind a grieving father, a broken best friend and a very lonely and lost fiancée.
Over the years Jim tried so hard to keep both his worlds apart, his straight world where his best friend Matt was his rock and his gay world where he was going to marry Darian the boy he was in love with.
Along the pages of this book, the story gets together between present, past events and diary entries.
What happens is that once Jamie´s world collide the outcome is pretty different from what he ever imagined, and the pull between his best friend and his fiancée is inevitable.
Yes, sometimes is hard to keep the timeline in order, but all the characters voices are pretty clear and once you get to know them is easy to switch from one to the other.
The main question in this book is Why? Why did Jamie did it? Why wasn´t he able to face his mother and tell her the truth? Why he couldn’t say to Matt what he was feeling?
Lots of question that get answered in Jamie´s diaries pages...over 6 years of thoughts, memories, feelings that come together in one last moment.
The writing is superb, the way Wade Kelly portraits these characters emotions, makes your heart ache.
This is one of those books that will stay with me for a long time.
I hope the sequel takes us to a happier place, one that does not include Jim´s mother.




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