First of all, I should say I'm not part of the target audience for this book as I'm not a gay man. That being said, this book definitely has a more authentic voice to it than a lot of "M/M romance" books that are written from the perspective of a gay male character (and clearly targetted at women). This is an #ownvoice book.

I struggled a bit with a retelling of this particular story because it's so well=known. It's difficult to write anything in under 200 pages that is going to have enough character development to carry such a dysfunction relationship and make it believable. I feel like this plot line is one that needs much more room to grow on the pages.

I really liked MC, Morton. I loved his background ... he was raised by two drag Queen Dads, and he had a lovely gender-fluid way of dressing. He was full of pride and comfortable within himself which great to see. It was a little difficult to believe that he would fall in love with Harrison as quickly as he did - especially when it was clear from the first moment that Harrison was struggling under the weight of multiple addictions.

I haven't read any of Field's other writing so I don't have a sense of his writing style other than in this book. It's certainly well-written, ( )