Reread 2022

I feel a lot different about this book now. I understand Marx’s instalove formula and it works great here. The sex scenes were hot as hell (although none of them are detailed anal scenes for those who wonder about that), and the way Shawn helps Frankie is sweet. Plus, he has a totally bad complication of a day which was pretty amusing-but-sad to read about. The friendship between Ollie and Frankie was sweet as well.

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OG Review 2021

For some reason, this relationship felt even more unbelievable than most of Marx’s works. Also it felt a tad weird for the fact Franklin didn’t have anywhere to go and was it Shawn somewhat taking advantage of that? In a more realistic novel, I think it would be considered dark that he didn’t instead try and offer some alternative that wasn’t just ‘live with me, a stranger’.