Review: My Mistake
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
For some reason, I didn't realize that I had bought another book in a series that, well... I dislike immensely.I'm surprised, because I just read another K. C. Wells book that I loved - enough to give it a five-star review. I figured, what the heck, a talented author I know, how can I go wrong?But as another reviewer pointed out, the portrayal of college students sharing a house is just downright embarrassing, and bears no resemblance to any of the thousands of gay men I've known throughout my life. Sadly, they do bear a distinct resemblance to post-pubescent teenage girls.Not that there's anything wrong with post-pubescent teenage girls, but clothing them in the guise of a half-dozen twenty-something gay men is just, well... I can't even find words to express how much I dislike the whole idea.Think of this: six college students sharing a house in which everyone calls each other "honey" and cuddles endlessly - when they're not bawling their eyes out. My God, this is stereotype beyond stereotypes. Maybe if I were a teenage girl, I'd like it, but it wouldn't do me much good to believe that gay men are nothing more than teenage girls in different clothes and with slightly different plumbing.What was K. C. Wells thinking? She's a really talented author, and "Personal Secrets" is just an excellent book that engaged me throughout, with adult characters who actually acted like real gay men and age-appropriate. I know K. C. Wells can do much better, because she has. As a gay man myself, to be quite honest, I am offended by this portrayal of gay men as weepy, ineffectual and whiny. I tossed this book after about 100 pages, something I only very rarely do.Read it at your own risk but, please, don't mistake any of these characters for gay men.