Review: didactic
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2012
This very short romance is pleasing to read but has some issues, first and foremost plausibility.Joey is 17 y.o. and yet he is sexually really active and experienced; he has a supporting parent and is out and proud. There is no hint as to where his confidence comes from nor why he is so fixated with looking smart and fashionable in a very conservative way.It is also not particularly clear why he decides to explore "Love" (capital letter required) as there is no hint he is unhappy with his life.His relationships with his mother, his best friend and the three boys he meets appear artificial as if the author were willing to prove a thesis, the thesis being that love brings you to a higher lever of existence. Things are more spelled out than shown: I had the impression of reading a modern fairy tale with a moral that needed to be passed on.