Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez

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Rainbow Road
by Alex Sanchez

The final chapter in the Rainbow trilogy, this book finds the boys taking a cross-county trip together.

Once again, the characters and people they meet are transparent examples of various types encountered in the gay community (a transgendered character, an old gay couple in a longterm relationship, a little boy with an abusive father, a group at a radical fairy gathering, etc.) and that was a little annoying since you could see the ending coming a mile away once you realized that. But that wasn't enough to keep me from finding out what happened to the boys!

Their trip is full of realistically painful mistakes and arguments (you try spending every second of the day with people you've never spent that much time with before and see if fights don't break out!) and many times over the characters were in conflict with each other and themselves. But the conflicts brought them together as much as tore them apart. I broke out into a wide grin when Jason called Nelson his best friend. And there were plenty of amazing moments throughout that made me smile as well.

Also, I got to the part in the book about Carlsbad Caverns just as a friend/local BookCrosser visited Carlsbad Caverns in real life. Neat coincidence. I've visited a few of the places mentioned in the book when I went cross-country but I took middle or northern routes most of the time so it was neat to see where their journey took them.

The ending made me happy and satisfied, and I felt glad to have taken this three-book journey with these characters.