Review: superficial
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
Despite the embarassing (for the author, of course) number of one-line-only five-star reviews, there are two things that do not work for me in this very short M/M romance:- first, it is short. It is not concise, it is underdeveloped. Too much background information, too many psychological transitions, too many romantic developments are crammed into a couple of pages and the author's writing is certainly not poignant enough to make up for and compensate all the lacking pages.It reads like a draft, most of the time;- while the side characters are obnoxiously ill outlined, an obvious result of the sheer lack of pages, the two main one are ill outlined and unlikeable.Taylor is a troubled man but of all those troubles we only get glimpses. We meet him as an unhappy man, we see him having mind-blowing sex and we leave him a wham-bang happy man.Daren is the dictionary picture of vapid.His best friend/epic crush of five years comes to his house in the middle of the night saying he wants to talk about very important things and what we get is him getting randy and horny and thinking about sex while his best friend/crush is baring his soul to him.Who would not want a friend/lover like that?I think the author aimed at humour in that peculiar scene. If she did, she failed. If she did not, someone please explain me what was the purpose.Later on the couple is having sex. Daren is not trembling because of the deep emotions he feels. He is quipping about who is having control...Friends to lovers is a beloved branch of the romance genre because of its intense psychological implications. It has been done before and keeps on being done for this reason.Of all this psychological, sentimental complexity one find here little more than nothing.