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Harlan's Race: A Novel by Patricia Nell Warren

My review

I'm only 70 pages into this book, and I'm finding it a bit humorous that the murder via castration of Horatio, the cat with large balls, plays into the conspiracy theory.

While I love, love, love the dynamic between Harlan and all the other characters (he's a conservative, older gay man raised in different times than the youth of the day), I find his constant obsession that there is another sniper out there to get him and his groomed gay love track stars because they are celebrities a bit unrealistic. But then, maybe I'm misspeaking; were track stars viewed in the same light as Michael Phelps of today?

Anyway, on Page 70, I get that there is the concern there is another vigilant killer possibly on the loose, and that is a very real concern. But Harlan, looking over his shoulder as he clams off Fire Island every five minutes two years after the sniper killing of Billy just seems a bit extreme. Again, though, maybe it was different in the 70s; just maybe, there was not therapy available? I don't know, I was born in 1971.

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