Complementary Colors Adrienne Wilder Books
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My sister Julia manipulated my life into a prison to keep me silent about our dirty family secret. Her greed made me a slave and circumstance left me with no way to escape. Trapped, the only way I could silence the nightmares driving me to insanity was to wrap them in color, hold them with shadow, and stitch them to negative space with line. But no matter how bright the pigments, no one could see my confession. Except for Roy Callahan. I thought he was just another nameless one-night stand in a long line of many. But I was wrong. Roy could see past the façade of my life and through the veil color over the canvas. He could see what the world couldn’t. And with him I’d find the courage to tell the truth about the boy. The boy who kissed me. The boy who loved me. The boy whose name I couldn’t remember.
Complementary Colors Adrienne Wilder Books
I stayed up all night to finish this book. There are so few writers of gay fiction as assured, accomplished and talented as the amazing Adrienne Wilder. "Complementary Colors" is not the first Wilder I've read. The "My Brother's Keeper" books captured my attention, imagination and heart the exact same way "Complementary Colors" did. Ms. Wilder is one of the reasons I read.Her characters are so engaging, so richly drawn and so deep, that they are virtually alive to me. My heart reaches out to them, as Ms. Wilder's writing reaches out to me. And it's not her dialogue, or descriptions, or even her plots. It's the intangibles. Everything she writes works as a story, as a character study, and as a metaphor. This book deals with sex abuse, murder, art and trauma. She deals with these powerful topics through the thoughts and actions of her characters, never preaching or even explaining. Paris is an artist, and so much of what you know of him comes from the colors he sees and describes so vividly. Ms. Wilder understands, deeply, how an artist experiences his or her inspiration and compulsion. Although Paris is hugely successful, he hates the art he creates, because he does it under duress to benefit his creepy, violent, greedy sister, Julia. She abuses him and she whores him out to clients to seal the sale of his paintings to the rich and overpriveleged.
But some little glimmer of a flame still lives in Paris' soul, expressed when he creates his remarkable paintings of the lost boy he loved when he was only ten - paintings that are not for sale, that are not for public consumpition, but which his monster sister puts on display on national TV and then sells right out from under him.
Paris is damaged. He witnessed a terrible crime when he was very young - a murder within his family, and it haunts his every moment. It informs his art and ends up with him institutionalized. His salvation is Roy, a beautiful, working-class guy who offers him the one thing he has never experienced in his checkered and tragic life - love.
Most of the book is dedicated to their growing affection, and the secret that is just crying out to be spoken. There's no question that Paris is mentally ill, but with good reason, as you find out as the book moves to its inevitable and exciting conclusion.
The sex is hot because it is not exploitative. It is part of his growth from a man forced to use sex as currency, to a man who finally learns to treasure it as an act of love. It's quite beautiful to see the pure sensual and esthetic enjoyment he gets from eating his first-ever hot dog (a chili dog, actually), and sledding down a hill on a cardboard box. After all, those things are so normal. He's incredibly wealthy from the sale of his paintings (though his sister steals most of it), but the finest champagne and designer clothing does not compare to an hour in a soul food cafe in a depressed area of town.
There are many parallels to be drawn, between the traumatic coming-out experiences of so many young gay kids, their isolation from their parents, their loneliness and hopelessness. Like the adolescent who becomes convinced that God, his parents, his friends and his world tell him he's worthless because of who he is, Paris is convinced that in his mental state, his secrets, his lies and the constant abuse of his sister, he would be better off dead. Thankfully, the love of Roy and that spark that gives him "three dimensions" keep him going.
I can't say enough about how well-written this book is. In it, Ms. Wilder penned one of my all-time favorite lines:
"We'd slipped beyond the real world and hovered where darkness and light made love to create the colors of the universe."
The entire book, while sometimes difficult, is as beautiful as that evocative and poetic sentence.
No matter what you do, don't miss this book - it's one of the best I've read in years.
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Complementary Colors Adrienne Wilder Books Reviews
This is not a gentle story. Paris tells it, and Paris is a broken man, though Roy doesn't know it when he meets him. We the readers have some idea. (We think we do.)
That's just in the first few pages. You read the excerpt on , you think you're ready. You're not. I was careful where I stopped reading each day, so I could sleep. I could finish it because this is a Romance, but holy crap the end. And the clever last chapter.
I have a couple of criticisms, neither important
The sex got kind of boring, this happens in many erotic romances. Only the feelings and the funny bits were great - but that's a plus. They remained and got more personal.
The other is how Paris thinks of the colors he sees. They're very plain from a painter's view, unless he always chose visually and never read the names on the tubes - possible, but not shown well enough for me to notice. No umber, cadmium, cobalt, ivory black, titanium, ochre.
If you're ready for intense, read this one.
5+++ Overwhelming Impressive
Where in the hell do I start to explane how I felt about this book.
There is a lot of story in it.
It was disturbing and exhausting
It was violent and so touching
Its was dark and so colorfull
It was sweet and so sad
Its was funny and scary
It was sensual and sometimes hot
There was pain and so much heartache
There was abuse and manipulation
There was illness and love and care
There was drugs and violent sex
There was hope and angst
And there was love beautiful unconditional love
This book stopped my breath i choked almost
I cried and smiled
I did scream and wanted to throw my iPad away
My heart pomped to fast and I had goosebumps
Its was sensual and hot
I got a whiplash of the all the feelings.
This book was captivating and telling the story from the inside of the mind of beautifil Paris
He is held 'prison' by his sister and has to live on her terms.
She is violent and sick and there is a whole story behind
She gives him drugs pils and other poison
Because of his demons he can make paintings others give big big money for
When Paris meets Roy, one of the sweetest man on earth, his life gets meaning.
Roy sees his beauty but Paris can only see himself as very ugly with no right to live.
I wont tell the plot you have to buy this book and read it by yourself.
There is a lot of story in it and a lot of feelings
It is not a light or easy book. But a really mustread.
The feelings are real and more than convincing
BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL heartbreaking book
And....it has a happy end......... Thank You Lord or I would never recover
This story took me on a extraordinary journey, and I admit to be fumbling for the words needed to write a review that will give justice to this incredible book. WOW Adrienne Wilder you brought me to my knees, I devoured this book in one sitting, and I'm sure it will be on my reread list for many years to come. To see from Paris's POV and to live with him in his fractured madness as he walked alone down the rabbit hole, made my heart ache. But kind and gentel Roy actually saw him, believed in him and wouldn't leave him alone. I loved Roy when he explained the only valuable thing he had to give was his love, as anyone could give sex. Are we to sit on the sidelines and judge people with mental illnesses believing we are pure and clean, I say NO lets enter Paris's life and get dark and dirty, maybe, just maybe, you might learn something. Please buy this book and join the fan club I have to say this book is one of the best I have ever read and I salute the genius that is Adrienne Wilder.
I stayed up all night to finish this book. There are so few writers of gay fiction as assured, accomplished and talented as the amazing Adrienne Wilder. "Complementary Colors" is not the first Wilder I've read. The "My Brother's Keeper" books captured my attention, imagination and heart the exact same way "Complementary Colors" did. Ms. Wilder is one of the reasons I read.
Her characters are so engaging, so richly drawn and so deep, that they are virtually alive to me. My heart reaches out to them, as Ms. Wilder's writing reaches out to me. And it's not her dialogue, or descriptions, or even her plots. It's the intangibles. Everything she writes works as a story, as a character study, and as a metaphor. This book deals with sex abuse, murder, art and trauma. She deals with these powerful topics through the thoughts and actions of her characters, never preaching or even explaining. Paris is an artist, and so much of what you know of him comes from the colors he sees and describes so vividly. Ms. Wilder understands, deeply, how an artist experiences his or her inspiration and compulsion. Although Paris is hugely successful, he hates the art he creates, because he does it under duress to benefit his creepy, violent, greedy sister, Julia. She abuses him and she whores him out to clients to seal the sale of his paintings to the rich and overpriveleged.
But some little glimmer of a flame still lives in Paris' soul, expressed when he creates his remarkable paintings of the lost boy he loved when he was only ten - paintings that are not for sale, that are not for public consumpition, but which his monster sister puts on display on national TV and then sells right out from under him.
Paris is damaged. He witnessed a terrible crime when he was very young - a murder within his family, and it haunts his every moment. It informs his art and ends up with him institutionalized. His salvation is Roy, a beautiful, working-class guy who offers him the one thing he has never experienced in his checkered and tragic life - love.
Most of the book is dedicated to their growing affection, and the secret that is just crying out to be spoken. There's no question that Paris is mentally ill, but with good reason, as you find out as the book moves to its inevitable and exciting conclusion.
The sex is hot because it is not exploitative. It is part of his growth from a man forced to use sex as currency, to a man who finally learns to treasure it as an act of love. It's quite beautiful to see the pure sensual and esthetic enjoyment he gets from eating his first-ever hot dog (a chili dog, actually), and sledding down a hill on a cardboard box. After all, those things are so normal. He's incredibly wealthy from the sale of his paintings (though his sister steals most of it), but the finest champagne and designer clothing does not compare to an hour in a soul food cafe in a depressed area of town.
There are many parallels to be drawn, between the traumatic coming-out experiences of so many young gay kids, their isolation from their parents, their loneliness and hopelessness. Like the adolescent who becomes convinced that God, his parents, his friends and his world tell him he's worthless because of who he is, Paris is convinced that in his mental state, his secrets, his lies and the constant abuse of his sister, he would be better off dead. Thankfully, the love of Roy and that spark that gives him "three dimensions" keep him going.
I can't say enough about how well-written this book is. In it, Ms. Wilder penned one of my all-time favorite lines
"We'd slipped beyond the real world and hovered where darkness and light made love to create the colors of the universe."
The entire book, while sometimes difficult, is as beautiful as that evocative and poetic sentence.
No matter what you do, don't miss this book - it's one of the best I've read in years.
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