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Flamboyant book caf? owner Luca Moretti and geeky doctor Gus Hansen have been together for six years when the Supreme Court ruling makes same-sex marriage legal in all states. On June 26, 2015, Gus gets down on one knee and Luca screams yes. On their wedding day, shortly before the ceremony, Luca's mother explodes in anger, calling him a freak. The reason? He's wearing a white veil, sprinkled with crystals. Their relationship has been strained for a long time, and her words trigger traumatic memories. Instead of walking down the aisle, Luca runs. Away from his mother. Away from Gus. Gus counts down the minutes when Luca's mother comes knocking. He realizes something's wrong, but when he goes to talk to Luca, his husband-to-be is nowhere to be found. Can Gus find Luca in time and manage to convince him to come back and get married? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The blurb gives good info on what the plot is about so I won’t go over it again. What I will do, is summarize why I don’t agree with the majority of the other reviewers.
Positives:
1) I didn’t find many SPAG issues, only a few incorrect words, so I’ll say this book is pretty well edited.
2) The character I liked the best was Luca. The author described his personality and clothing well so I could picture him in my head.
3) The plot idea is cute.
Those three points are the only things I found good about this book. Now on to the issues that didn’t work.
Negatives:
1) Gus is a Marty Stu. If you don’t know what a Marty Stu is, it’s the male version of a Mary Sue. There’s nothing wrong with Gus. He’s perfect. We know this because Luca keeps telling us this and thinking it, and because Gus’ mother tells him so we readers know what a good man he is. All this is mentioned over and over again throughout the story. Perfect characters are difficult to relate to because they lack depth, they have no flaws to give them added dimension. Even comic book characters have flaws. I couldn’t relate to Gus because of his impossible perfection.
2) This may be a personal preference, but the issue that occurred at the wedding was too easily solved as soon as Gus found Luca. If there’s going to be conflict, make it worth the readers time to create an interesting conflict and resolution, not something solved with a snap of the fingers.
3) The epilogue wasn’t necessary. The last chapter before the epilogue had a perfect ending. The epilogue could’ve been used as a short story written for the author’s blog or newsletter. Instead, tacking it on at the end of the story made it feel out of place and ruined the previous chapter’s better ending.
4) Telling! So much telling! Despite this being a short book, I pushed myself to finish because the telling numbed my mind. This story is ninety percent telling, and ten percent dialogue. Monologue after long monologue, by both men, about what they thought about the other person, about events in their past, about their relationship with other people, about green rugs! Other readers seem okay with reading a book that tells instead of shows as indicated by this books ratings, but I prefer a writer who can pull me into a story by showing so my emotions are engaged, as well as my imagination. This book never did that.
In the end, the fact that the story was predominately told disappointed me and didn’t engage my emotions enough to care what happened to Luca or Gus. I was glad when the book was over. I realize most other readers give it a good rating despite the poor writing, but I can’t in all honesty do that. This is a cute book and I liked Luca, but that doesn’t offset the monotonous telling. If the author rewrote this book to show instead of tell, and fleshed it out a little bit, then the book would be worthy of maybe, four stars. However, as it is, it only gets 2 Stars because of the telling and I cannot recommend it.