Review: Funny, quirky, very British
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2013
Please leave comments on Josie's 5 sweet pea review at mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.php/?p=13666The Hot Floor by Josephine Myles is a fabulous, kinky, funny and so very English book. I loved every moment of it.Josh Carpenter spends most evenings listening to his hot neighbors Rai Nakamura and Evan Truman, having sex ...enthusiastic, hot kinky sex, if the sounds he hears are anything to go by. As Josh is currently between boyfriends this just leaves him frustrated, and with a permanent aching right hand. When he takes an unexpected trip through the floor in his bath tub, into their bath tub, things start to look up, especially when they not only invite him into their flat until his is fixed, but also into their bed. Can Josh be more than just the third one in their threesome, and what happens when Rai and Evan start talking about moving out and getting a place of their own?I never heard of this book until I went to the UK Meet, a LGBT author and reader weekend, and the author read out the excerpt I used as the quote in a panel on humor in books, and I just had to read it, and I wasn't disappointed.The humor of the book initially drew me in, as I struggle to find really funny books that appeal to an English sense of humor, which is far different to an American sense of humor, but I stayed for the characters. Josh is so sweet, so unsure of himself he just can't see what Evan and Rai see in him, and he questions his place in their life all the way through the book. Evan and Rai on the other hand are both supremely confident, in themselves and each other, they initially have some minor trust issues with Rai not wanting Evan and Josh to be together when he is not around, but those are soon overcome. This is NOT a cheating book; the three men are all quite happily forming a relationship together.The story is told from Josh's POV so it can come across as a bit one sided but there are enough conversations between the men for it not to detract at all. There is a lot of sex as well, but it never felt too much, in fact the book is scorching hot.In a nut shell I adored this book so much, it is one I could read over and over again. If you're looking for a funny, quirky English book then look no further than The Hot Floor by Josephine Myles, I guarantee you'll be looking up her back list (as I have) for more books before you have turned the final page.