A review by nightcolors
Caregiver by Rick R. Reed

4.0

I bought Caregiver back in 2011, and only read it now because I was afraid this book would break my heart. And it did make me cry, but the whole story was about love, so it didn't make me feel too sad. Adam absolutely sparkled. I wish we got to see more of him.

This story's timeline was set in the 1990s. When Mark had that beach encounter in earlier chapter, I wasn't sure of what was happening and why. Between that incident and the AIDS treatments, it made me glad for how far we've come since then. I often feel so impatient at all the inequalities in the world right now: homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism and more. But we apparently have made some progress. That made me happy.