Review: Well, The Cover Is Hot...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
Sorry, don't mean to be snarky, but I'm feeling a bit... I don't know, "13-year-old-girly" after reading this book? And for a mature gay man, that's more than a bit uncomfortable.I know this is supposed to be in the M/M Romance genre, but does it have to be this shallow, trite and unbelievable?Young guy, almost 21, homeless because his dad beat him and kicked him out at the age of 17 for being gay, stumbles (literally) into this too-good-to-be-true town where everyone appears to be either gay, or gay-friendly. Immediately taken in, immediately becomes family, immediately falls in love the with new dentist, immediately...  well, you get the rest.The MC speaks and acts like a 14-year-old boy, not a young man who, apparently, has been unwilling or incapable of holding a job for the last 3 1/2 years as he keeps running across the country because his father threw him out. I mean, get over it, already? Obviously his trauma couldn't have been all that deep if he recovers his faith in humanity, family and the American cowboy, well... immediately.And the sex is downright embarrassing. I mean, passionate kisses in the barn, but won't even rub one out with his lover because he hasn't been tested. What's the problem, haven't they ever heard of condoms in Jasper? And then when he comes up HIV-negative, he still holds off "until the time is right". Do you know what the word "tease" means?The emotion was shallow, character development was basically missing, as the characters undergo major personality upgrades "immediately" (as they do everything else in the book) without any rational justification, great insight or even life-changing epiphanies.Enough. I'm sure you get the point. This is, obviously, one story among many by this author - a series without a series name - and perhaps the other books explain this one.But even if they do, I think I'll skip them. I have a limit to the amount of saccharine I can consume over any given period of time.