Review: Exciting read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
LeatherSkater's review on Mrs Condit & Friends review blog: I was excited about getting this book to read. First, I loved comedies, ever since I watched my first Marx Brothers film. Then the author added in horror, which brought back my childhood Universal monster loves. Then we were talking about Hollywood and topping it with gay m/m sex. What more could I ask for? On reading reviews, I was expecting a fun ride, and quite literally read the full book in one evening.The plot was a good one. Take the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and make it gay with a twist: the dead ex [Mac] who not only doesn’t want to give up his ex lover [Cal], but is trying to make his ex join him on the other side! Add in a sweet sexy lawyer [Dewey] in a clueless Jimmy Stewart type role that the Cary Grant-ish type lead likes, and you get all kids of fireworks, mostly from the dead ex not liking where this is going. Mr. Thornton takes it one step further and adds in town a group of actors that reminds the readers of the cast of the TV show Newhart [if they were all as smart as Larry and his brothers Darryl’s] that were support by the ghostly ex when he was alive all clamoring around the story in one way or another and you have a fun swift read. I enjoyed it.As a reader, I did have a little problem with POV. Mr. Thornton flips chapters, and tells what is happening mostly from Cal’s and then from Dewey’s point of view. [Once near the end, from Mac’s]. I got confused at first, but once I figured it out, and I got used to the flippage, and I was ready for the shift so it didn’t pull me out of the book going.. “what the….?” anymore. Heh. Plus, it’s a fun read, and I really did want to stay in the story, so I didn’t like those moments. If that’s my only negative, it’s a small one. Otherwise, I liked this. I’d definitely read other books from him. He made me smile and laugh. That’s a good thing, when you shoot for humor. ^_^