Review: Spot me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
Dan can't wait to leave his office and head for the gym. He's comfortable around other guys and just enjoys a workout - until the day a professional bodybuilder shows up with a deep voice and a body to die for! But at forty, Dan can't see why a man in his late twenties would be interested.According to a magazine article, the handsome Gene is gay, out and articulate. Next time at the gym Dan and Gene spot for each other on weight exercises. Gene recruits for technology positions so he and the older computer programmer have common ground - although they never talk about it! They get on well and Gene asks Dan out to dinner. But the man who dumped Dan nine months previously turns up again after being dumped by his new boyfriend, and asks to come back into Dan's life. Now what?Gay people have relationship dilemmas just the same as straight people, and Dan's self-consciousness could apply to any person at any age. Luckily Dan has good friends. Gene is tired of dating men who are well-built but have no intellect, but they don't all like being told it's over....I enjoyed reading about the food eaten by these two health-conscious men - duck and poached pear salad, roast duck with raspberry sauce, chicken with herbs and wild rice. The regular weightlifting workouts described will surely enhance this book for gym fans and may spur them on to achieve success. SPOT ME is a nice read and Andrew Grey, while writing for an adult gay market, has delivered a good short novel for today's readers. If I were either gay or interested in gyms and weights, I'd probably have given it a higher rating. The series continues with several books on the same lines.