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The Road to Amazing

By: Brent Hartinger
Narrated by: Josh Hurley
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Summary

"I think gay guys like weddings more than anyone. And it's not because we want to destroy marriage, like some people say. It's because we really, really want to get married!"

Russel Middlebrook is gettin' hitched! The wedding is taking place in a remote lodge on an island in Puget Sound. Russel and his husband-to-be have invited all their close friends to spend the whole weekend together beforehand. And for the first time in his life, Russel is determined to not be neurotic, and not over-think things.

But that's before things start going wrong. Who expected a dead killer whale to wash up on the beach below the inn? And what's this about a windstorm approaching? Then there's the problem of Russel's anxious fiancé, who is increasingly convinced the whole thing is going to be a disaster.

Meanwhile, the wedding is taking place near the ruins of a small town, Amazing, where, a hundred years earlier, the people supposedly all disappeared overnight. Why does it feel like the secret at the end of the road to Amazing has something to do with Russel's own future? Can Russel's friends Min, Gunnar, Vernie, and Otto somehow help him make it all make sense?

The Road to Amazing, the final book in the Russel Middlebrook Futon Years trilogy, is a story about endings and beginnings, and also about growing up and growing older. But mostly it's a story about love and friendship - about how it's not the destination that makes a life amazing, but the people you meet along the way.

©2016 Brent Hartinger (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Bloody Amazing

It truly was amazing in more ways than one. I just loved the continously first person narrative and I just loved the narrators outlook on gay life and life in general. I grew up to an age where to even imagine marrying your same sex partner was a strictly tabbo thought, let alone subject. To be young today and gay must one of tgr most exilerarting life styles there can be. Once you get over all that anxe regarding life choices and coming out and parents etc. If only I could be young and gay today i would be up the front of that gay pride march for sure, But I can't. so I must satisfy myself with amazing stories about the likes of Russel and friends. I really enjoyed the whole three books and listened to them back to back. I will look into the others and if Russel and Kevin ever come to England and I met them, I would stand them a few pints in a good old fashioned London pub. I think we'd get along famously despite the age differences.

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Struggled to finish

For two people the week before their wedding, both MC's are rather negative. Again, the secondary characters have a big role and by now I know you can just skip the rest of the chapter when you are bored, without missing something important. In this novel Kevin gets his first characteristic: a pessimist.
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Waste of time.

I loved the first two books, This one not so much couldn't finished it and the author decided to make the formally likeable main characters into druggies... this one isn't worth your time off effort but the first two are really good.

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My second time listening to this series of books!

I've enjoyed this whole series, twice! Great story with wonderful carecters, reminds me of some of my experiences growing up, the narration is perfection!

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