Review: Sex in the City meets WeHo, insightful & delightful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2013
'I love you, I hate you' is an in-depth exploration of relationships and that great divide between maturity and reckless self-indulgence. The story focuses on three men, Dack the vacuous twenty-something, Mason the fortyish successful adman with destructive tastes in partners and Parker the new man with his finger on the pulse of relationships. Parker translates the drama in the office into pithy blogs that ask tough questions. The problem is ... how to deal with his own feelings and intense attraction to the older man while watching the object of his desires cave in to Dack's manipulations at each and every turn.Mason's journey is tough and definitely an emotional rollercoaster. Being forty doesn't mean you have insight into why you let others walk all over you, or why you allow surface attraction to rule all. Parker needs to stay out of it but finds it increasingly difficult to deny his attraction for Mason. How they get together has many fits and starts and frustrations along the way but as with all good stories, the trip is most definitely worth it.I'd give it a higher ranking based on the enjoyment factor alone, but the beginning sections were a hair confusing about which character was which (and it needed editing here and there). Once that issue smoothed over, the story moved along at a good pace.