Review: A disappointment unfortunately
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
BOOK WAS A KINDLE LOANI waited for the next novel from Damon Suede ever since I read and loved "Hot head". Mind you, I did not care what the next novel will be about - I will read about almost anything as long as I consider it well written. But when I saw that this novel will be about the people who create art (besides being a romance I mean), I could not wait. I am a consumer of art - books, paintings, theater, cinema, all these things not only entertain me, but fascinate me. I am not a creative person myself, so I am always eager to read a meditation on how the art gets created. I was waiting to read a take on how a talented person can create comics, or any kind of art, what his mind and soul can come up with. I deliberately did not read "Horn gate", although I knew that this was the comics which Trip imagines in this novel, because I wanted to experience how the art gets born first. And of course I was eager to read a romance.Unfortunately I was very disappointed. I am not sure what the plot of this book was - in other words, I am not sure where did the story go and whether the story was present in the first place. The writing was not bad (from the reader's point of view), but I felt like the story was aimlessly wondering around for the most part without much meaning. Yes, it has some nice insights about creating art, which I loved, like this one:"Silas muttered, "<snip the word Amazon does not want me to post. The best villain is the thing that proves your hero wrong. Whatever murders hope. Y'know?" He bit his tongue like a little boy. His strokes carved the page into segments: dark and bright. "Monsters don't wreck the world by smashing it. They corrode everything around just by existing. Right? Like acid"However, it is not enough for me to enjoy the story, especially such LONG story like this one (it has over 7300 locations on my kindle).  I need plot and great characters. Speaking about characters - when I saw that this story will not have much plot, I was hoping that maybe it will transform in a slow moving character based story, where with every page we will learn something new and interesting about main characters.Sadly - not so much. I am still not sure what I know about Trip and Silas after I am done with the book. I am sorry, but them both being an insecure human beings and talented artists is just not enough for me.Their love story just did not give me much of additional insight into their souls. I mean there were some nice moments, but again it got lost amongst pages and pages which frankly just added to aimless wondering around feeling for me. Sex was hot though - but usually sex is the icing on top of great plot and characters that  I am looking for, so that did not help me much.I appreciated interesting secondary characters and several women characters amongst them which felt real and human.2.5 stars