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whitneydr's review
2.0
When I got the book I was thinking, “Hmm, an opposites attract tale. This should be good.” I was thinking there was going to be a good story, character development, nice love scenes and them eventually overcoming social prejudices from living in a small town.
No such luck, unfortunately. What I got was an over-abundance of sex scenes strung together by occasional events. It was like sexscenesexscenesexscene-oh, by the way, this happened-sexscenesexscenesexscene. The sex scenes go on for pages, both men instantly hard again after just having an orgasm, ready for another round. Each sex scene was painstakingly drawn out to the point where I found myself skipping over them until some semblance of plot appeared, which it didnt until around page 80 (out or 188). And the events that happen…well, just happen. The events seem to be just a precursor or reason for the two heroes to get it on afterwards. If something happens, you could be sure needed sex was soon to follow.
There was very little, practically zero, character development. In the blurb it says that Max was “trouble” (which was said like 1000 times in this piece. Okay, possible over exaggeration, but believe me, it’s a lot.), but was never given a glimpse as to why or how he became that way. The reader just had to take the word of the townspeople. To them, Max was a bad seed because he drank and got into fights (none of which were started by him). Max is generally disliked by the townspeople so much so that even when attacked or defending himself in a fight with bigots, he would mostly likely be the one to be arrested. Other than a few jerks, people seem to accept the fact that he’s gay and dating Wil, so that can’t be the entire reason why he’s deemed to be trouble; his background is never gone into, so the reader (or me) will never know. Mentioned between sex scenes, we find that Max is an artist who occasionally gets work making stained glass windows for patrons…that’s basically it.
Wil is the deputy sheriff, new to town at the beginning of the story and working the night shift. That’s pretty much all you know about him. You do get a glimpse into his past when he describes a childhood trauma he had regarding his pet dog and that one of his first anal play encounters hurt a lot, which explains the first 30 pages.
Trouble is basically on of those “Meet, Fuck, Instantly fall in love” stories where the characters are saying the L-word mere days after meeting. There was no “getting to know you” period (or at least none that was written or not about what the characters like during sex), so I was left scratching my head as to how they went from screwing, to falling in love, to moving in together.
No such luck, unfortunately. What I got was an over-abundance of sex scenes strung together by occasional events. It was like sexscenesexscenesexscene-oh, by the way, this happened-sexscenesexscenesexscene. The sex scenes go on for pages, both men instantly hard again after just having an orgasm, ready for another round. Each sex scene was painstakingly drawn out to the point where I found myself skipping over them until some semblance of plot appeared, which it didnt until around page 80 (out or 188). And the events that happen…well, just happen. The events seem to be just a precursor or reason for the two heroes to get it on afterwards. If something happens, you could be sure needed sex was soon to follow.
There was very little, practically zero, character development. In the blurb it says that Max was “trouble” (which was said like 1000 times in this piece. Okay, possible over exaggeration, but believe me, it’s a lot.), but was never given a glimpse as to why or how he became that way. The reader just had to take the word of the townspeople. To them, Max was a bad seed because he drank and got into fights (none of which were started by him). Max is generally disliked by the townspeople so much so that even when attacked or defending himself in a fight with bigots, he would mostly likely be the one to be arrested. Other than a few jerks, people seem to accept the fact that he’s gay and dating Wil, so that can’t be the entire reason why he’s deemed to be trouble; his background is never gone into, so the reader (or me) will never know. Mentioned between sex scenes, we find that Max is an artist who occasionally gets work making stained glass windows for patrons…that’s basically it.
Wil is the deputy sheriff, new to town at the beginning of the story and working the night shift. That’s pretty much all you know about him. You do get a glimpse into his past when he describes a childhood trauma he had regarding his pet dog and that one of his first anal play encounters hurt a lot, which explains the first 30 pages.
Trouble is basically on of those “Meet, Fuck, Instantly fall in love” stories where the characters are saying the L-word mere days after meeting. There was no “getting to know you” period (or at least none that was written or not about what the characters like during sex), so I was left scratching my head as to how they went from screwing, to falling in love, to moving in together.