Review: Oh Pahlease
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2012
I happened to read the first three of this series on a lark, since my friend and I both ran out of books at the same time - hence, we swapped book readers. She actually tried to tell me that these were "eh", but me being me, I figured hey, why not. I'll read just about anything with a good story and talented writer.This was neither. The story lines were so trite, unbelievable, and boring that I found myself constantly fast forwarding. I'm female, not male - so, if I'm going to read the equivalent of por... I mean, erotica... I need a little substance to my storyline. Not to mention the fact that these books were virtually the same story one after another. The conflict consisted of nothing but gay bashing and homophobes, and the "romance" was always love at first sight. Add that to the fact that the author wants us to digest that all five out of five brothers are gay? What.. is the town subsisting solely on BPA? Soy? Is there something in the water?And can we give the giggling a break? These are grown men, not little kids. Chuckles, laughs, guffaws, grins, whoops, snorts... those are okay. But I draw the line at giggles, titters, and chortles for grown men. Not sexy... not even cute. Actually, it was a bit disturbing since they would instantly morph into a child in my head. Talk about killing any and all mood (not that I was feeling it to begin with, mind you).I get it... I get that these books are all part of some campy fantasy life that people like to exist in inside their head, but really? I need some sort of reality check. Not only that, but even though I've never read the bio on this author, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that she's never set foot on a ranch in her life. I've worked on several, and these books were either poorly researched or the author just didn't care to be accurate. You know what I got sick of reading? Pummel. It's a pommel, not a pummel. Pummel is what I wanted to do to these books, pommel is the horn, handles or bow of the saddle. So for heaven's sakes, stop it.I know these books are supposed to be shorter, steamy, appetizers to the more well-developed romance novels... but these just felt like the author was too lazy to really develop a true connection between the main characters. Throwing in some bs about a legend just allowed her to take the easy way out, and setting this in a backwoods, gay-intolerant area only added to that.I'm suddenly very glad that I didn't pay for these myself, although I now feel bad that my friend did - especially now that I've seen the ridiculous price tag attached to each one. I've read twenty times better off the Amazon freebie list or even in the 99 cent novels.