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Augustin Station
One wrong train. Four days in Romania. A life he can no longer pretend to live.
A married American teacher takes a solo weekend trip to Romania, seeking a brief escape from his carefully constructed expat life in Stockholm. When he boards the wrong train and ends up stranded in a forgotten village in the Carpathian foothills, a chance encounter sets off a chain of events that will challenge everything he's spent decades avoiding.
Over four days of unexpected detours, through medieval castles, mountain trails, and late-night conversations, he begins to confront the truth he's been hiding from himself since adolescence. In the raw, unpolished landscape of rural Romania, far from the life he's built and the person everyone expects him to be, he discovers that some revelations can't be ignored, no matter how much they threaten to upend everything.
Augustin Station is an intimate portrait of late-in-life awakening, exploring the cost of living inauthentically and the courage it takes to finally be honest with yourself and everyone else. A novel about desire, identity, and the moment you realize you can't go back to who you were.
A married American teacher takes a solo weekend trip to Romania, seeking a brief escape from his carefully constructed expat life in Stockholm. When he boards the wrong train and ends up stranded in a forgotten village in the Carpathian foothills, a chance encounter sets off a chain of events that will challenge everything he's spent decades avoiding.
Over four days of unexpected detours, through medieval castles, mountain trails, and late-night conversations, he begins to confront the truth he's been hiding from himself since adolescence. In the raw, unpolished landscape of rural Romania, far from the life he's built and the person everyone expects him to be, he discovers that some revelations can't be ignored, no matter how much they threaten to upend everything.
Augustin Station is an intimate portrait of late-in-life awakening, exploring the cost of living inauthentically and the courage it takes to finally be honest with yourself and everyone else. A novel about desire, identity, and the moment you realize you can't go back to who you were.
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180 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2025
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Justin Greak
1 book11 followersBorn and raised in small-town Texas and now an expat based in Singapore, Justin Greak writes about identity, intimacy, and what it means to start over in the middle of your life. He moved abroad in his thirties and has been writing ever since to make sense of everything that followed. He lives with his husband and a spoiled black street cat named Kopi.
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November 28, 2025
got this book as part of booksprout's ARC program - thank you!
there is a lot of weight that comes with writing so distinctly personal. Augustin Station is a deeply touching and emotional novella that moved me to the core. queerness is hard to accept in oneself, and even harder to admit for many. Greak employs very evocative yet deliciously simple language to create a very genuine character of the narrator that is so relatable and yet so unfamiliar even to himself. as his trip and his understanding of himself and what he wants develops, I could feel the satisfaction of heartbreak at the end.
Greak's writing style is phenomenal. he is clearly a master of bending the word to his will, and the process of reading and savouring the prose was immensely satisfying. there were passages that moved me so deeply that I had to take a break from reading and consider them and their delicacy. the erotic segments were particularly blunt in contrast with some other parts of the book, but intentionally and meaningfully so. the narrator's feelings are palpable throughout.
the only part I wasn't particularly satisfied with was the ending part and the epilogue, albeit this might be an issue of personal taste. they just felt a little too fast-paced.
there are some minor typographical errors in the ARC that I'm sure will be mended by the time this book is properly released.
I'm happy for Owen, and I'm happy for Justin Greak.
there is a lot of weight that comes with writing so distinctly personal. Augustin Station is a deeply touching and emotional novella that moved me to the core. queerness is hard to accept in oneself, and even harder to admit for many. Greak employs very evocative yet deliciously simple language to create a very genuine character of the narrator that is so relatable and yet so unfamiliar even to himself. as his trip and his understanding of himself and what he wants develops, I could feel the satisfaction of heartbreak at the end.
Greak's writing style is phenomenal. he is clearly a master of bending the word to his will, and the process of reading and savouring the prose was immensely satisfying. there were passages that moved me so deeply that I had to take a break from reading and consider them and their delicacy. the erotic segments were particularly blunt in contrast with some other parts of the book, but intentionally and meaningfully so. the narrator's feelings are palpable throughout.
the only part I wasn't particularly satisfied with was the ending part and the epilogue, albeit this might be an issue of personal taste. they just felt a little too fast-paced.
there are some minor typographical errors in the ARC that I'm sure will be mended by the time this book is properly released.
I'm happy for Owen, and I'm happy for Justin Greak.
November 11, 2025
This book is beautiful and heart-wrenching. At its core, it’s a love story, not only between the two main characters, but between the protagonist and his true self. It is also a love story about the chaos and beauty of travelling. It makes me think of the times I have followed my heart, for better or worse, in spite of the potential consequences.
The author writes in a style that I might normally not be drawn to, with large swaths of descriptive language. This author, however, doesn’t get stuck in his descriptions and draw away from the story, but rather uses them as a way to put the reader into the mind of the protagonist as he sees Romania for the first time. My favourite early description includes the phrase:
‘brutalist apartment blocks slouching towards collapse, construction sites frozen mid-gesture, walls wearing their graffiti like bright wounds. Then suddenly, we pass the last concrete structure and the air makes a sound like an exhale before going silent. The horizon suddenly opens up into endless fields. In the distance I see the faint outline of the Carpathian mountain range.’
At once it made me understand the decrepitude of a post-Ceaușescu Romania, while also making me want to travel there and see these contradictions for myself.
Would definitely recommend.
The author writes in a style that I might normally not be drawn to, with large swaths of descriptive language. This author, however, doesn’t get stuck in his descriptions and draw away from the story, but rather uses them as a way to put the reader into the mind of the protagonist as he sees Romania for the first time. My favourite early description includes the phrase:
‘brutalist apartment blocks slouching towards collapse, construction sites frozen mid-gesture, walls wearing their graffiti like bright wounds. Then suddenly, we pass the last concrete structure and the air makes a sound like an exhale before going silent. The horizon suddenly opens up into endless fields. In the distance I see the faint outline of the Carpathian mountain range.’
At once it made me understand the decrepitude of a post-Ceaușescu Romania, while also making me want to travel there and see these contradictions for myself.
Would definitely recommend.
November 18, 2025
WOW!! For such a short story, this packs a big punch. The dialogue was SO real and believable. I felt like I was in Owen’s head as well, his emotions and inner monologue were so real. Greak had a real knack for writing. What an amazing debut novella! Highly recommend!
December 20, 2025
Augustin Station is a warm reminder of how unexpectedly beautiful life can become when you are brave enough to follow your heart. Justin’s storytelling is beautifully descriptive yet incredibly easy to read — I flew through it.
Through my own evolving experience with sexuality, this story resonated deeply. It was reassuring to see a narrative that honours growth, uncertainty, and the courage it takes to live honestly.
Very grateful that I got my copy signed — it made the experience feel wonderfully personal. Highly recommend!
Through my own evolving experience with sexuality, this story resonated deeply. It was reassuring to see a narrative that honours growth, uncertainty, and the courage it takes to live honestly.
Very grateful that I got my copy signed — it made the experience feel wonderfully personal. Highly recommend!
November 16, 2025
This story completely pulled me in from the start. I was genuinely moved by the writing and found myself fully invested in the characters. The writing is beautifully crafted yet still easy to read, making the entire experience flow effortlessly.
A captivating and memorable read and I highly recommend it.
A captivating and memorable read and I highly recommend it.
March 15, 2026
A gentle, thoughtful read
The story itself is lovely. A married American man on a brief visit to Romania takes a wrong train and his life pivots at the same time. My only beef with this book is that this indie author possibly used AI to edit the MS (not a problem for me) but some of his writing was hijacked by the occasional AI slop, some expressions notorious as AI giveaways. That took me out of the story occasionally and made me wonder if the entire story was an AI creation. I highly doubt it, and no offense to the author if I’m completely wrong. Also, the paragraphing really needs work as it’s inconsistent and distracting. Otherwise it was a story I could relax into and get swept away by the soft melancholy meandering throughout every sentence. I recommend this book as a gorgeous queer read.
The story itself is lovely. A married American man on a brief visit to Romania takes a wrong train and his life pivots at the same time. My only beef with this book is that this indie author possibly used AI to edit the MS (not a problem for me) but some of his writing was hijacked by the occasional AI slop, some expressions notorious as AI giveaways. That took me out of the story occasionally and made me wonder if the entire story was an AI creation. I highly doubt it, and no offense to the author if I’m completely wrong. Also, the paragraphing really needs work as it’s inconsistent and distracting. Otherwise it was a story I could relax into and get swept away by the soft melancholy meandering throughout every sentence. I recommend this book as a gorgeous queer read.
November 12, 2025
I stumbled on this novel from a Reddit thread, and I'm so glad I found it. The story really drew me in, I sat down with it intending to read a few chapters and ended up finishing it that same evening. It's a pretty quick read but it hits hard. The story is about a married man on a solo trip to the mountains of Romania. He's married, but clearly has some identity issues that he's been working through. He ends up on a wrong train and through bad luck and happenstance gets dropped off in some middle of nowhere village in the middle of Romania.
I don't want to give too much away of the rest of the story, but it had me feeling some things as I read it. The feeling the author conveys with the quiet moments, the isolation, the unfamiliarity of a foreign country while also struggling with his sexuality, it just stuck with me. There’s this sense of longing that runs through the story, both for himself and for another that he meets along the way.
The writing is subtle and honest, and even though it’s not a long book, it lingers. I found myself thinking about the main character for days after finishing it.
If you’ve ever felt like you were standing on the edge of a big change, or if you’ve ever questioned whether you’re really living the life that fits you, or if you are someone who has come out of the closet (or thinking about doing so) this story will probably hit home.
I don't want to give too much away of the rest of the story, but it had me feeling some things as I read it. The feeling the author conveys with the quiet moments, the isolation, the unfamiliarity of a foreign country while also struggling with his sexuality, it just stuck with me. There’s this sense of longing that runs through the story, both for himself and for another that he meets along the way.
The writing is subtle and honest, and even though it’s not a long book, it lingers. I found myself thinking about the main character for days after finishing it.
If you’ve ever felt like you were standing on the edge of a big change, or if you’ve ever questioned whether you’re really living the life that fits you, or if you are someone who has come out of the closet (or thinking about doing so) this story will probably hit home.
January 5, 2026
“I used to think I’d wasted so much time. Now I see I was just late to my own beginning”
Best line to end a book.
My heart goes out to all of the closeted teens and adults in small towns. This book is the most honest portrayal of a “late in life” awakening. At the end of the day, the message I got from the book is that, you still have time to be who you truly want to be.
But damn you Justin Greak, for tugging at every emotional string imaginable.
Best line to end a book.
My heart goes out to all of the closeted teens and adults in small towns. This book is the most honest portrayal of a “late in life” awakening. At the end of the day, the message I got from the book is that, you still have time to be who you truly want to be.
But damn you Justin Greak, for tugging at every emotional string imaginable.
March 30, 2026
A short descriptive novel, an easy read.
An intriguing, compelling story of introspection and exploration.
Augustin Station is an invitation, a doorway to new perspective.
Contains many literary and film/television references.
Related Works: Call Me By Your Name, Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Never Let Me Go, Dracula, Flowers for Algernon, Giovanni’s Room
Related Film/Television: Pulp Fiction, Contact, Jurassic Park, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, Call Me By Your Name, Love,Simon, MacGyver
Favorite Passages:
Some people travel to find themselves. Maybe I'm traveling to find the person I've been hiding.
______
There's something comforting about trains, the way they carry you forward on their own certainty.
______
For now, I watch Romania slide past my window, the mountains growing closer with each turn of the wheels. Their shadows stretch across the valleys like fingers reaching out, trying to grasp at something just out of reach. The train curves around a bend, and for a moment, the sun hits the window at such an angle that I can see my reflection laid over the landscape. A ghost self, transparent against the mountains. For the first time, I wonder if I came here to be someone else, even if just for a few days.
______
Low clouds cling to the treeline, subtly blending the pine forest with sky. This is the Eastern Europe I imagined: brooding, mysterious, slightly menacing. Dracula country. The birthplace of enduring legends.
______
I wonder if there are others awake like me right now, hiding behind screens, searching for connection in digital dark alleys.
______
Stepping back outside, Augustin opens up like a door I never meant to walk through. Around the back of the station, a dirt road leads into the village proper, where houses wear bright colors like desperate makeup - blues, yellows, pinks - their paint peeling to reveal Soviet concrete gray beneath. Some buildings look like they simply gave up, collapsing into piles of rubble that nobody bothered to clear away.
______
A satellite dish sprouts from a crumbling roof, the twenty-first century grafted awkwardly onto the past.
_______
His mother says something that makes him laugh. "She say your accent is like a dog trying to sing opera, but she like that you try."
_______
"She say sometimes we find answer in place we never looking."
______
And perhaps there's freedom in being seen by a stranger. Someone with no investment in who I'm supposed to be, someone who will never be part of the life I've constructed. Here, I'm just a man at her table, stripped of all context, seen purely for who I am in this moment.
______
The road narrows as we leave the village behind, forest pressing in on both sides. Sunlight filters through the trees in intermittent golden bursts, creating a natural rhythm that gradually lightens the mood.
______
"Well, the diplomatic answer would be Kerouac. Vonnegut. Steinbeck."
"Ah, the Americans."
______
The question hangs in the air between us. I watch a raindrop make its way down the passenger window, splitting into two separate paths.
______
"Being alone forces you to think about things you've been avoiding."
"Like what you actually want," Adrian says quietly.
"Or who you actually are." The words come out before I can stop them.
. . . .
"I think," Adrian finally says, "sometimes we have to lose ourselves a little to find ourselves. Move away from everything familiar to see what remains when all the external expectations fall away."
______
"It's exhausting," Adrian says, his eyes meeting mine. "Trying to be what someone else needs when it goes against who you are."
_______
"The move itself was almost like . . . the first thread coming loose. And once that happened, the whole fabric started to unravel, slowly but inevitably."
______
"See that? According to local legend, it's a scratch from a dragon's claw."
"Let me guess - you made that up too?"
"Actually, no. That one's real. Well, the legend is real anyway." He smirks. "Though I suppose we should maintain a healthy skepticism about dragons."
_______
"Sometimes we have to be selfish to be honest. Sometimes being true to yourself means disappointing others."
_______
This is a beginning disguised as an ending.
_______
The absence of chaos is suddenly deafening.
_______
Life isn't something to be recast or repaired. It's a series of drafts, each one a little better written than the last.
An intriguing, compelling story of introspection and exploration.
Augustin Station is an invitation, a doorway to new perspective.
Contains many literary and film/television references.
Related Works: Call Me By Your Name, Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Never Let Me Go, Dracula, Flowers for Algernon, Giovanni’s Room
Related Film/Television: Pulp Fiction, Contact, Jurassic Park, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, Call Me By Your Name, Love,Simon, MacGyver
Favorite Passages:
Some people travel to find themselves. Maybe I'm traveling to find the person I've been hiding.
______
There's something comforting about trains, the way they carry you forward on their own certainty.
______
For now, I watch Romania slide past my window, the mountains growing closer with each turn of the wheels. Their shadows stretch across the valleys like fingers reaching out, trying to grasp at something just out of reach. The train curves around a bend, and for a moment, the sun hits the window at such an angle that I can see my reflection laid over the landscape. A ghost self, transparent against the mountains. For the first time, I wonder if I came here to be someone else, even if just for a few days.
______
Low clouds cling to the treeline, subtly blending the pine forest with sky. This is the Eastern Europe I imagined: brooding, mysterious, slightly menacing. Dracula country. The birthplace of enduring legends.
______
I wonder if there are others awake like me right now, hiding behind screens, searching for connection in digital dark alleys.
______
Stepping back outside, Augustin opens up like a door I never meant to walk through. Around the back of the station, a dirt road leads into the village proper, where houses wear bright colors like desperate makeup - blues, yellows, pinks - their paint peeling to reveal Soviet concrete gray beneath. Some buildings look like they simply gave up, collapsing into piles of rubble that nobody bothered to clear away.
______
A satellite dish sprouts from a crumbling roof, the twenty-first century grafted awkwardly onto the past.
_______
His mother says something that makes him laugh. "She say your accent is like a dog trying to sing opera, but she like that you try."
_______
"She say sometimes we find answer in place we never looking."
______
And perhaps there's freedom in being seen by a stranger. Someone with no investment in who I'm supposed to be, someone who will never be part of the life I've constructed. Here, I'm just a man at her table, stripped of all context, seen purely for who I am in this moment.
______
The road narrows as we leave the village behind, forest pressing in on both sides. Sunlight filters through the trees in intermittent golden bursts, creating a natural rhythm that gradually lightens the mood.
______
"Well, the diplomatic answer would be Kerouac. Vonnegut. Steinbeck."
"Ah, the Americans."
______
The question hangs in the air between us. I watch a raindrop make its way down the passenger window, splitting into two separate paths.
______
"Being alone forces you to think about things you've been avoiding."
"Like what you actually want," Adrian says quietly.
"Or who you actually are." The words come out before I can stop them.
. . . .
"I think," Adrian finally says, "sometimes we have to lose ourselves a little to find ourselves. Move away from everything familiar to see what remains when all the external expectations fall away."
______
"It's exhausting," Adrian says, his eyes meeting mine. "Trying to be what someone else needs when it goes against who you are."
_______
"The move itself was almost like . . . the first thread coming loose. And once that happened, the whole fabric started to unravel, slowly but inevitably."
______
"See that? According to local legend, it's a scratch from a dragon's claw."
"Let me guess - you made that up too?"
"Actually, no. That one's real. Well, the legend is real anyway." He smirks. "Though I suppose we should maintain a healthy skepticism about dragons."
_______
"Sometimes we have to be selfish to be honest. Sometimes being true to yourself means disappointing others."
_______
This is a beginning disguised as an ending.
_______
The absence of chaos is suddenly deafening.
_______
Life isn't something to be recast or repaired. It's a series of drafts, each one a little better written than the last.
March 5, 2026
“…sometimes we have to lose ourselves a little to find ourselves. Move away from everything familiar to see what remains when all the external expectations fall away.”
I don’t know if I could recreate the online path I followed which led to my stumbling upon this exquisitely moving book. This is one of those unsung gems you hope to find and you feel fortunate you did.
Owen and his wife are American expats living in Sweden, where he works as a teacher. In need of a solo getaway, he takes a quick trip to Romania, hoping to get some good hiking in and clear his chaotic brain. But on his first full day, he boards the wrong train and winds up in a small village where tourists don’t usually stop.
Owen has spent his life pretending to be something that he isn’t. He’s hidden his real desires and dreams away to do the “right” thing. But his yearning for authenticity, for the freedom to stop worrying about how he speaks and acts, is beginning to wear on him. And as he has a long wait until another train comes, two separate instances of hospitality and insightful conversation make him realize he needs to be honest—especially with himself.
“Sometimes getting lost is the only way to find where you’re supposed to be.”
This was a tremendously powerful and poignant book that really struck a chord with me. I definitely felt the pressures that Owen did but realized I had to live my life the way I wanted to. It’s not an easy thing to do, and this book captured that internal struggle that so many people deal with. I’ll think about this book for a long while!
Check out my best reads of 2025 at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2025.html .
See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com.
Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/getbookedwithlarry/.
I don’t know if I could recreate the online path I followed which led to my stumbling upon this exquisitely moving book. This is one of those unsung gems you hope to find and you feel fortunate you did.
Owen and his wife are American expats living in Sweden, where he works as a teacher. In need of a solo getaway, he takes a quick trip to Romania, hoping to get some good hiking in and clear his chaotic brain. But on his first full day, he boards the wrong train and winds up in a small village where tourists don’t usually stop.
Owen has spent his life pretending to be something that he isn’t. He’s hidden his real desires and dreams away to do the “right” thing. But his yearning for authenticity, for the freedom to stop worrying about how he speaks and acts, is beginning to wear on him. And as he has a long wait until another train comes, two separate instances of hospitality and insightful conversation make him realize he needs to be honest—especially with himself.
“Sometimes getting lost is the only way to find where you’re supposed to be.”
This was a tremendously powerful and poignant book that really struck a chord with me. I definitely felt the pressures that Owen did but realized I had to live my life the way I wanted to. It’s not an easy thing to do, and this book captured that internal struggle that so many people deal with. I’ll think about this book for a long while!
Check out my best reads of 2025 at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2025.html .
See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com.
Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/getbookedwithlarry/.
November 7, 2025
I found this book on a reddit thread for self published offers to promote their book. It sounded interesting so I told Justin I would happily read it and if I liked it I would leave him a review.
My first thoughts while reading were about how beautifully descriptive the words were... I could see the places he was visiting so clearly, and I have no experience with Romania.
The story of a man finally accepting his own sexuality and learning to live his true life was so well written and crafted. It is a common enough story, it is hard to be "different" from what people expect you to be... but there is something so wonderful about following along with a man who finally finds himself in a strange place with a chance encounter. Bravo, I enjoyed the story immensely!
My first thoughts while reading were about how beautifully descriptive the words were... I could see the places he was visiting so clearly, and I have no experience with Romania.
The story of a man finally accepting his own sexuality and learning to live his true life was so well written and crafted. It is a common enough story, it is hard to be "different" from what people expect you to be... but there is something so wonderful about following along with a man who finally finds himself in a strange place with a chance encounter. Bravo, I enjoyed the story immensely!
March 23, 2026
It is never too late
Owen‘s story resonated with me. Acceptance of oneself is not always easy. Sometimes, it comes much later in life. I am reminded of a particular call when I used to work a Gay Hotline in a major American city. The caller, in his sixties, was nervous. I could sense it was the first time he was reaching out. We talked for a while about being gay, afraid to admit it due to peer pressure (this was in the mid 90s) and wondering if he was too old to come out. I told him it was never too late, that people move at their own pace that he needed to be true to himself. Some 30 years plus, I still remember the call.
Owen‘s story resonated with me. Acceptance of oneself is not always easy. Sometimes, it comes much later in life. I am reminded of a particular call when I used to work a Gay Hotline in a major American city. The caller, in his sixties, was nervous. I could sense it was the first time he was reaching out. We talked for a while about being gay, afraid to admit it due to peer pressure (this was in the mid 90s) and wondering if he was too old to come out. I told him it was never too late, that people move at their own pace that he needed to be true to himself. Some 30 years plus, I still remember the call.
December 28, 2025
5 stars = perfect
I usually have a hard time giving a 5 star Rating, but in this case it was easy.
Too much of what's offered on Amazon is just a collection of M./M. romantic tropes. This reads Like biography. Like other reviewers, I find parallels with my own lived experience.
I hope this book gets enough Interest to encourage Justin to write another novel!
I usually have a hard time giving a 5 star Rating, but in this case it was easy.
Too much of what's offered on Amazon is just a collection of M./M. romantic tropes. This reads Like biography. Like other reviewers, I find parallels with my own lived experience.
I hope this book gets enough Interest to encourage Justin to write another novel!
January 29, 2026
Beautiful journey
Quite an adventure, both literally and figuratively! Sparely but beautifully written, poignant and real, evocative without drama; just a really lovely read. Secondary characters were perfectly drawn…the turquoise capris! So glad to have found this gem, and would love to read more from Mr. Greak.
Quite an adventure, both literally and figuratively! Sparely but beautifully written, poignant and real, evocative without drama; just a really lovely read. Secondary characters were perfectly drawn…the turquoise capris! So glad to have found this gem, and would love to read more from Mr. Greak.
February 13, 2026
Terrific!
A coming out story head and shoulders above the rest. The protagonist is older than in the usual coming out stories, which gives it a maturity not possible in teenage-based stories.
It has an elegiac, meditative quality that I appreciated. The contrast between life in Romania and Stockholm illustrates the character’s choice.
A new author to keep an eye on!
A coming out story head and shoulders above the rest. The protagonist is older than in the usual coming out stories, which gives it a maturity not possible in teenage-based stories.
It has an elegiac, meditative quality that I appreciated. The contrast between life in Romania and Stockholm illustrates the character’s choice.
A new author to keep an eye on!
March 25, 2026
i had to pause for my own reflections
So much in such a small book. I’ll probably come back to this time and time again. Resonated with me though the story is not mine own, nor comparable. The descriptions of the people, the towns, the buildings, the environment, even the food enough reason to reread.
Hoping Justin Greak has more stories to tell.
So much in such a small book. I’ll probably come back to this time and time again. Resonated with me though the story is not mine own, nor comparable. The descriptions of the people, the towns, the buildings, the environment, even the food enough reason to reread.
Hoping Justin Greak has more stories to tell.
December 21, 2025
amazing story
A beautiful story of becoming your true self. Owen’s Romanian trip, physically, mentally and spiritually should resonate with everyone. One of the best books I’ve read this year.
A beautiful story of becoming your true self. Owen’s Romanian trip, physically, mentally and spiritually should resonate with everyone. One of the best books I’ve read this year.
March 5, 2026
Definitely one of my favorite queer reads this year. It’s short but hits hard. No smut, just a raw and honest look at what it feels like to be closeted. The message about choosing authenticity, even when it costs you, really stayed with me. Under 200 pages and super easy to get through.
November 16, 2025
Wonderful book, evocative, real, worth the read. Left me wanting a sequel and wanting to know more about the characters and author. Please read.
December 5, 2025
Read this in one day. Great story telling.
January 28, 2026
I loved it!!!!
March 16, 2026
Wow ❤️🥹
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