Review: Funny, Sweet, Sexy, & More Funny
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2011
I mostly checked out this book because the cover picture made me laugh.  I like Amy Lane, she's good, but I'm not an uber fan. That said, I really enjoyed this book, it is sweet and funny.  Crawford is a wonderful character, with depth and authenticity.  He's not perfect, or a perfectly cookie-cutter 'top'. He's sweet and grumbly in a way that is very real, and he knits - charming.  The secondary characters in Crawford's life are interesting and realistic. The author does an amazing job of capturing his thought process and the voice of this story is unique and intriguing.Ben, Crawford's love interest, is also very likable.  He is also written with depth, not just some plastic cut-out bottom boy. It would have been nice to get more of Ben's story and history, but the fact that it's obvious that there is more to his story is the point.  And even though we don't ever get to experience from Ben's point of view, we still get a good picture of him.The one minor downside of this book is all the fiber talk.  It felt more like the author was establishing a foundation for a series of books than just this one novella.  If I didn't know a little bit about the fiber arts I'd have been really lost in some scenes, but it wasn't really essential content, I skimmed several scenes.  Don't be put off though - here's a primer: you take the animal hair and wash it and brush it out so the fiber lays flat and all the threads are pointing in the same direction, then you spin it into yarn, at some point in this process you dye it, usually before you spin it.  The rest is just an overabundance of technical details.  Despite the overabundance, I finished the story and felt a sudden urge to dig out my crochet hook.