The first book in the Killian Kendall Mystery was probably my first gay themed young adult, and it will always have a special place in my memory. The story between Killian and Seth was heartbreaking, even if there wasn’t really a love story between them, and then the happiness Killian found with Asher was refreshing. But as often happen, when you read about teenager in love, your first thought, or at least my first thought, when I close the book is: how many chances do they have to be still together in 5 years from now? The last years of high school, the beginning of college, are moments in life where people change, life changing moments, and so it was for Killian.

At the beginning of this novel, it’s clear that his love story with Asher is at the end, I haven’t read the second book in the series, so sorry, I don’t know if this is something that had already began, but even considering All Lost Things a stand alone book, it’s a reasonable event. The title of the book, All Lost Things, has different meanings, and one of them I think is the loosing of innocence, the innocence linked with being young. Killian and Asher are growing and their paths to adulthood are different.

The same lost of innocence is also happening to Caleb, Asher’s new love interest, a strange boy, younger than Asher; when Asher realizes that he is loosing Killian, for no other apparently reason if not that they are growing apart, he searches in Caleb someone else to “protect”, someone that is still malleable. The book has two subplots; one of them is Caleb’s case: Caleb’s abusive father is dead in a fire, and Caleb is main suspect.

The second subplot is something more ethereal, but not less scaring: Steve and Adam, Killian’s “adoptive” parents, want to open a B&B in an ancient mansion which people believe being haunted by the ghost of a woman, Amalie, dead in the vain waiting of the return of his husband lost in sea. Again a “loosing” factor, again innocent characters that couldn’t do anything again fate.

Other than his two cases to train as private investigator, there is a also a new love story for Killian, this time with a more adult flavour: Killian and Asher were teenager, and their relationship was made of kisses and jealousy, of gossip and maybes; Killian and Micah instead have something stronger and important, something that maybe have more changes to survive the time passing.

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