Review: I love Joe
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2012
I love Joe.I'd like this to be my review.But if I don't bore myself and everybody else with my thoughts, I don't feel like I've really done the book justice. Or maybe I should shut the hell up. Anyway:Joe's voice is enthralling, even if it's a bit hard to pick it up for a foreigner like me, but then it just keeps you glued to the screen. It seems all that's good and genuine in Joe comes out in his way of telling events. Genuine, real, concrete, I don't know, it seems as though I could end up in his little corner of the world and meet him. Like in the first book, his sexual dominance really seems just like a trait of his personality and it suits him perfectly, it spills in his bedroom in a natural way. Outside of the bedroom, he's a regular guy doing his job and trying to follow his principles and be just, not simply playing lip-service to abstract religious principle. He doesn't drink, he doesn't cuss, he doesn't beat to surrender everyone he meets with his animal magnetism, but when he's with his Kabe, well, he's scorching hot. I think I expressed this concept thoroughly.In this installment, he's facing the problems he caused by himself after hooking up with Kabe during the investigation of the first book. He has to go in front of a commission and have his behaviour analyzed and judged and he could risk a lot. He doesn't want Kabe to be involved in this, but eventually it happens. Joe meant good, but he hasn't really understood that Kabe wants to be an equal in their relationship, he wants to be there as a partner, not as the boy Joe orders around in the bedroom. I really felt for Joe and I sympathized with him for not being able to see how he was hurting Kabe by trying to shield him for the nastiness of the IA investigation.The subplot around the mystery investigation was unsettling. The bullying that transpires is heartbreaking, even if the author didn't make this a central theme, but it niggled my mind quite a lot.So: excellent. I hope for other books along the way, because Joe has still a lot to face in the future, especially in his community and within his family.