Review: It Must Be Me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
All the other reviews were five star, mine is only three. I just keep thinking that perhaps I've missed something that the others did not?This story is about relationships between gay men and both a mystery about disabled children, and the personal challenge of one main character raising one.I don't get it. Two of the lead characters, both cops, are assigned to investigate threats against families with disabled children. One of them falls for a young guy who is caring for his very young brother who suffers from Cerebral Palsey.But the two cops start out literally hating the handicapped, as though they were an affront to their very existences. They even refer to them as ugly and make fun of the deformities on the first handicapped victim, whose murder opens the book.Needless to say, they warm to the disabled kids more as the book progresses - it is, after all, a Romance novel.However, although all the five-star reviewers stressed that they found the situations and characters believable, I did not. Not at all.I have known, and been around any number of handicapped people throughout my life and never once encountered anyone who hated them for their disabilities. Sure, there were some who were uncomfortable, some who tried too hard to help out, and certainly others who erroneously believed that the disabled people were somehow "stupid". But the hearts of the overwhelming majority went out to these people, and, if anything, the worst they did was show their pity.Which, for me, made the very premise of this book thin, very thin. It also made the two cops absolutely repugnant to me, as though they were simply missing the genes for human compassion, empathy and care.All of which prevented me from getting into this book, not to mention dialog that came off stilted to my ear (someone tell this author that, in real conversations, people tend to use contractions), and absolute predictability, every step of the way. As for the erotic scenes, the first one was really good. The rest were the same exact thing over and over again. For the first time, I understand how people who spend too much time together ultimately get bored with the sex. I know I did about a third of the way into this book.It's an OK escapist read, not enough for me to demand a refund, but not a book I would highly recommend, either.