Review: An incomplete thought
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Setting aside the zaniness that marks so much of his other work, Carroll has created a much more subdued and low key story here.  However, the lack of resolution and focus hurts it overall.While the story begins with the POV of a young woman watching a cheesy training video during her first day at a fast food job, this character is quickly and mysteriously abandoned so the story can focus on her boss.  He's a introverted man who experiences love at first sight with a, well, blue haired alien.  The story kinda meanders around with Carroll telling us how much the two love each other and then it just kinda ends.  Along the way, we're told that multiple characters think that the young man is gay.  I think Carroll might have been trying to make a point about how people who are different are judged, but it was confusing because their reasoning for thinking he was gay just didn't make sense, even by the standards of unfair judgments.There might have been some potential in this story, but it seemed as if the author didn't really want to do the work to develop it.