Review: Frustrating Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
This book is hard to rate. I give it a four for the author's understanding and depiction of PTSD. It's familiar territory for me and yet I came away with some new thoughts. And I really appreciated the PTSD story from a veteran's POV. Very well handled.The problem was the guys themselves were a little dull and, worse, confusing. So a two for that. Three stars overall. The whole story hinges on the notion that two best friends have sex twice over the course of several years and each time the morning after is awkward and threatens the friendship. Not unheard of but we never get a compelling reason for why they don't pursue the relationship. There's major chemistry personally and sexually. They love and trust each other. And yet they each decide to just drop it? Why? Never felt I really got to know these guys. I empathized with their trauma but they weren't particularly engaging. They were kinda walking PTSD and not much else.And there was no levity! With such a heavy theme  you have to have some balance. Some laughs, some color. The author does attempt to liven things as the guys banter back and forth but it's not that cute and it's not that funny. More wooden than anything. So points for taking on the theme so well but overall a dull, frustrating read.