Review: This houseboy is a riot!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2012
This second book by Gillibran Brown, consisting of his blog/journal entries during 2007, starts out as funny as the last one ended, but takes it a few steps further. It is worth buying and reading just for the "figging incident". That one is for the history books, I swear. Twenty years from now, whenever anyone mentions ginger, I'll still remember that scene and still laugh until tears flow.This book differs from the first one in that, on top of being hilariously funny, it also starts adding layers to the emotional construct of the relationship between these guys. This story allowed me to start putting together the dynamics of the relationship and understand how and why it works. Believe me, it works. The overall impression from the first book is that Gill is a complete "Calamity Jane" and one wonders why the Daddies put up with him at all. Superficially, you understand that Shane added the houseboy with a dual purpose in mind:a. to actually do the house chores, allowing him and Dick to concentrate on their businesses and making money while still keeping a neat house.b. to give Dick an outlet for his Switch tendencies and high sex drive. Let's face it, Shane will never be Topped by anyone, and he's not exactly a spring chicken.But the author little by little gives us details, scenes, a word here and there, that show the above reasons for his presence in the household are just the icing on the cake. Dick and Shane need the boy in their lives. I believe if they hadn't found him, they'd no longer be together, much less married.I've just bought the next book in the series,Achilles and the Houseboy (Memoirs of a Houseboy), and will start reading it now. We'll see if it bears out my analysis.I envy Eileen, their neighbor accross the street. I am totally and completely hooked with Gill and his Daddies.