Review: If You Want Believable Characters, Don't Read This
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
Ugh. Bad. Terrible. Embarrassing. Offensive.I could have stopped my review there, but there is so much shade to be thrown right now.Here is the entire summary of the incredibly thin plot: College athletes Maverick and Duke are in love but they will never admit it because THEY ARE NOT GAY.THEY ARE NOT GAY.NO GAY HERE.NOPE.WE ARE STRAIGHT.WE LIKE THE LADIES.But...if you want to, we can sleep in the same bed and cuddle. Or hold hands. Or make out. We love and care about each other BUT ONLY AS FRIENDS. So let's spend literally an entire novella playing Gay Chicken, because that makes so much sense.This story just made no sense. It was actually embarrassing to read because these two guys acted so disgusted by each other until they were literally having sex. Every other sentence was just denial, denial, denial. ENOUGH ALREADY. This is not a PSA, this is a fluffy erotica novella. We do not want to read some dumb college kid's diatribes about how he looooooves the ladies so he CAN'T POSSIBLY BE GAY.This short, short story was SO trope-heavy, too. So many tropes in one tiny novella. We had Gay for Pay, Gay for You, Only Gay If I Take It Up the Butt, Doing it On a Dare, Camp Gay, Skin the Color of Food Racism, Big Gay Panic, Homophobe Bully, Homophobic Until Proven Gay...The list goes on and on.This story was a waste. It wasn't sexy. It was poorly written, insensitive, offensive, and oftentimes sexist, racist, and homophobic. It is written in a juvenile way with no narrative drive, no creative devices, and very little background info or subplot for either characters.I have so few standards when it comes to romance novels.  SO FEW.  And this still managed to disappoint.Skip this and read something better. It isn't worth the money.