Review: Very disappointed. When I came across this book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
Very disappointed. When I came across this book, I noticed that there were three 5-star reviews and one 4-star review. Then I saw that the book was a grand 566 pages and I just knew I had to buy it. With that many pages, there had to be great character development, plenty of angst, funny dialogue, etc., etc., right? Unfortunately, none of these things were there for me. Just lots and lots of TV show dialogue, setting up and re-shooting scenes, the main character worrying about sex scenes, etc. Yes, that's right, this was a TV show disguised as a book. And the show--well, it started out as soft porn and ended up being hard-core. I'm not a prude but I found the story line of the book (four male main characters) centering around a popular TV show to be unbelievable--even by Hollywood standards. And the only angst was some minor worry over a failed marriage (that was a lot to do about nothing with both parties remaining best friends) and about getting turned on while filming sex scenes (that started to get old at about page 50). Throw in pages of the main character's online research of gay sex in preparation of anticipated sex scenes on the aforementioned TV show and you get a lot of nothing. I eventually started skipping through the pages so I may have missed some great story telling but I don't think so because I was always able to pick up the story right where I left off.  I have my go-to favorite M/M authors  (Josh Lanyon, T.J. Klune, Z.A. Maxfield and L.B. Gregg) and they have set the bar high for me. So even if their books are shorter in length, there is a lot of story crammed into those pages.