Length: 45,000 words
Cover: Harper By Design
Blurb
Local Parks and Wildlife officer, Jack Brighton, is an ordinary guy who loves his life in the sleepy town of Scottsdale. Along with his Border collie dog, Rosemary, his job, and good friends, he has enough to keep from being lonely.
But then he meets Lawson, and he knows he’s met someone special. There’s more to catching butterflies, Jack realises. Sometimes the most elusive creatures wear bowties, and sometimes they can’t be caught at all.
Lawson soon learns there are butterflies he can’t learn about it in books. They exist only in a touch, in a kiss, in a smile. He just has to let go first, so these butterflies can fly.
Imago is the story of finding love, bowties, and butterflies.
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Review
Author Bio
I’m very late discovering N.R.
Walker and her books, and clearly I’ve been seriously missing out. Imago
is a most wonderful story; clever, charming, funny, and exciting. If this book
and The
Weight of the World set the standard, I need to get my shit together
and pick up the rest of her books.
But, back to Imago.
The book starts with Jack Brighton meeting Lawson ‘Gale—hottest fucking nerd on the planet— on a flight from Melbourne to
Tasmania. At first glance the two men couldn’t be more different. Jack is a
Wild Life Officer, happiest out and about in nature while Lawson is an academic
nerd. But, as is so often the case, opposites attract and Jack and Lawson are
pulled together from the start.
Jack is a down-to-earth good
guy; easy going and straight forward. Lawson on the other hand is introverted
and geeky, and one to speak his mind. Or, as Jack says it:
‘Nerdy,
gorgeous, intelligent, and sassy. God, he just keeps on getting better.’
There’s little to no angst
involved in their getting together and it’s all the more charming for it. I
loved the dinners Jack organised for Lawson, trying to make the next one even
better than the one before. In fact, the whole story is more or less
angst-free, much to my delight, although there are a few heart-stopping
moments. There is however so much to love in this story and about these
characters.
I adored how Lawson would just
say what he thought, with little concern for how it would be received, and
Jack’s delight to be on the receiving end of such honesty was glorious. Jack’s
soft spot for Lawson’s bowties was cute, as was his need to make sure that his
dog, Rosemary, would get on with Lawson before Jack was willing to commit
himself to anything.
I thought I had the story
completely figured out early on, only to be surprised when danger reared its
head. Initially I was surprised about who ended up throwing himself head first
into a perilous situation. When I thought about it a bit more though, I had to
admit it made perfect sense, even if the actions were incredibly stupid and
made me want to both hug and slap the character in question.
This is such a feel good story,
I dare anyone to read it without a permanent smile on their face. I really
thought it couldn’t get any more perfect and then I came to the last few
paragraphs of this book. They were better than wonderful, leaving me with a
stupid but happy grin on my face and watery eyes. It truly was one of the best
finales to a romance I have ever read, and it kills me not to quote those lines
here, but I don’t want to deprive anybody else of the pleasure I experienced
when I read them.
Who knew that the collective
name for a group of butterflies is ‘kaleidoscope’. I sure didn’t. But now that
I do I can’t get over how very appropriate that is and not just for butterflies
either. In fact, I applaud the author for the way in which she managed to draw
parallels between butterflies and the two men in her story. It could so easily
have felt forced but instead the execution was flawless, smooth and fitting.
Once again N.R. Walker leaves me in awe of her storytelling and writing abilities.
“The butterflies he felt when he saw me had
morphed into love. The most remarkable metamorphosis’
She is many things; a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who she gives them life with words.
She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things...but likes it even more when they fall in love. She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.
She’s been writing ever since...
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