Ok. I've really struggled to review this book because I generally don't like to give anything below a 4 star - 3 star if it has rampant editing errors - but I just can't find it in myself to give this more than a generous 2.5 stars. I've liked other works by this author but, holy cow, this is in a totally different league.
First of all, I get that this was written with a friend in mind - according to the forward - and is intended to be over the top and cheesy. But seriously! For all that I wanted to, I could not find anything I liked about the main character, Ben. He's pretty much an arrogant manwhore - and that's being generous. I found nothing likeable about him and that made it really difficult to objectively view the rest of the story. Sawyer, his younger crush, is much more eminently likeable. He wavers between being full of sass and confidence, to being a little more vulnerable, and I could relate to his character more closely. Ben's friends come across as shallow and vapid and they did nothing to endear me to their contributions to the plot. In fact, I actually found there to be very little real plot - manwhore professor decides he might want to settle down in his first real relationship; along comes recent young graduate that's been pining for said professor; a birthday striptease followed by a chance coffee shop meeting and then ... Wham! Back at professor's place where they do the horizontal mambo in a flurry of cheesy "game" innuendos! That's pretty much it! No talk of feelings or futures - all you get is Ben ruminating internally that this could be the one, while the jizz is still drying on their bodies! Grant it, some of the game references were pretty clever but mostly it was like standing in the game aisle at Walmart and seeing just how many titles we can shove into a 58 page novella. Way ... WAY ... overdone!
In short, I can say that the editing was great, grammer and punctuation fine but everything else that makes a book/story memorable, or even just entertaining, was completely absent. I have never said this, to date, but I found it a complete waste of my reading time. I'd totally recommend that you judge for yourself, as there are undoubtedly readers out there that will enjoy such things, but I can't actually recommend it as something you "should" read. Be prepared to never look at another game aisle the same. I'm not sure I will ever hear the name of the game "Chutes and Ladders" and not picture a cheesy sex scene! And if that's what the author was going for ... Well done!
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