Review: Fundamentally unpleasant
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
I have read another of Todd Young's books and honestly if I'd have realized this was by the same author I would not have downloaded it. I didn't realize it until after finishing, though, so my review is not biased by my previous experience.There is something fundamentally unpleasant about this book. And I'm not only talking about the protagonist's repeatedly putting highly inappropriate things up himself. None of the characters are likable or sympathetic. The situations in which they find themselves are unrealistic and their responses to them are equally so. The characters, particularly the lead character Mitchell, switch from one emotional state to another almost at random, going from hate to love, from comfort to fear, and back again over the space of a page or two.Afflicting the lead character with a micro-phallus made for an interesting change from the usual horse-hung guys who populate the pages of m/m fiction. But again, the responses from the people around Mitchell are so unbelievable that ultimately it doesn't pay off.