Review: Yeah, not so much
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
#Spoilers in review#While waiting at the doctor's office this afternoon, I read this on my Kindle. Normally, I know what to expect in a K.A. Mitchell book...sex and lots of it. But for "Bad Attitude," I have to admit I was overwhelmed with the AMOUNT of sex scenes, especially when some of them did nothing to advance the plot between Gavin and Jamie, i.e. threesome sex party scene. Now I am the first to admit I don't read m/m/m. Why? Because of the exact reason why I did not like this scene: it always seems to be sex between two guys with a third as the "middle man," trying to advance the romance between the main characters. But in this instance it did not work. I disliked Gavin and Jamie after the scene with Tommy, who I felt was used like a blow-up doll. Tommy was a throw-away character and the scene did nothing to build the ROMANCE between Gavin and Jamie in my opinion. And quite frankly, it wasn't even hot. YMMV.However, I could have gotten over that if I had felt any connection to Gavin or Jamie in the story, but Gavin was Too Stupid to Live in some instances (his friend Beach) and Jamie too emotionally withdrawn throughout much of the story to give me any insight into their characters. I think if there had been more plot, less sex, I could have understood Gavin and Jamie, maybe even gotten to like them. But 80% of book is sex (were these guys on Viagra?), 10% Eli and Quinn, 10% plot and that is not enough to win me over. (Sorry fans of Eli and Quinn, I have to admit I like Kellan and Nate so much better. *g*)Lastly, since Baltimore is my hometown and I spent 35+ years living there when Uncle Sam wasn't sending me all over the world, there are some glaring wrong assertions about the area in the book. Yeah, yeah, I know not important to the average m/m romance reader, but a couple of things just made me shake my head in disbelief. If an author doesn't live in the region they are writing about, then they really need a homegrown fact-checker. (No, not volunteering, just saying!)Unfortunately, not my favorite KA Mitchell book. I still think "Bad Company" is my favorite. Hopefully the next in this series will have less sex and more plot. Heck, I'd take half and half at this point.Lasha's Paranormal M/M Reviews