Review: Loved it but Hated Dick!!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
Dan Skinner author of the smash hit Memorizing You has another entry into the writing arena.  Is it autobiographical?  Semi-auto biographical?  I wonder !! Anyone who has kept up with this young man within social media outlets would have to ask this question. In any event, his newest is another hit.The Price of Dick is the life story of  gay photographer JJ Johnstone, and his life is relayed through his POV.  Dan gives us this story through this telling,  as we learn that  JJ left home from a terribly abusive family. His father trying to beat the gay out of him. JJ is now out and proud,  first living with a photographer years his senior who mentored, and eventually became his lover.Realizing life was passing him by, and not in love with the partner he is with,  JJ decided  he would venture out on his own. He could work within his photography trade and soon meets a gorgeous young thing at the gym. Call me Dick mesmerizes him!  The whole package, Dicks looks, his style and his swagger--it  is everything JJ wants.There is no way anyone reading this story could  like Dick. His slow mental abuse of the good looking, gentle JJ is abominable.  JJ is the pacifer in this relationship, and I can look back and see me getting rolled over by a steam roller. He did Anything to keep the peace. Ten long years this horror continued for JJ, and I shudder to think what would have happened if fate or God gave him Alex ( the trainer )..If he hadn’t  I don’t know if JJ would have had the will to survive.Dan if this was your story or not,  I must say I am so relieved and  happy JJ is free. The ending is wonderful and although JJ might have had ‘the leverage’ in the story, ending something with someone that miserable can’t be easy....and there were two miserable ones  to deal with !!!I know I am talking in semi circles not wanting to say as much as I wish, yet saying more than I wish. To end this babble of a review,  I can only say I loved the story, I hurt for JJ and wanted to beat up the Dick, and if any of this was a murmur of truth I hope this writing was cathartic. I hope you and your trainer live happily ever after !Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild