Hammer & Air

Amy Lane

Nov 2010 · Dreamspinner Press

About this ebook

There will always be a Hammer and an Air...

Graeme and Eirn have no words for what they are to each other. Children, clinging together in a crowded orphanage; friends, battling back to back in a school yard; and bedmates, finally bridging the gap between sleeping next to a body and allowing it to touch you in the night—all of these roles are summed up by just their names: Hammer and Air.

The innocent exploration of their newest roles is brutally marred when a violent, ill-tempered master threatens Eirn, and Eirn's "Hammer" kills the man in a fair fight. The two run off into the wide world with only each other for safety. It's difficult to forge a good life with only a blacksmith's hammer and a printer's cleverness, but together, Hammer and Eirn will learn to negotiate the dangers of magic and motion, of sex, obsession, and tenderness, and of the word that can make sense of it all—one word they must earn for themselves.

Ratings and reviews

A wonderful adaptation of a classic fairytale. I want to say it was the story of snow white and rose red but I'm not sure.....at any rate the fact that it takes you through their life and doesn't stop with 'and they lived happily ever after' is great. The fact that you see there love grow over time is fantastic and I love how the narrative is done on a dialect they speak with. I had thought it was a mistake at first but it adds a layer of........scenery? flavor? Maybe realism to it that makes it more fun.

Love a book with a good ending. Just enough sexual tention. A definite read for true love.