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His mother. His best friend. The barmaid at the local pub. Everyone is determined to find Nathan Moffatt a boyfriend. It's the last thing Nathan wants. After spending every day making sure his clients experience nothing but romantic magic, the Granshire Hotel's wedding organizer just wants to go home, binge watch crime dramas, and eat pizza in his underwear. Unfortunately, no one believes him, and he's stuck with lectures about dying alone. Then inspiration strikes. He needs the people in his life to want him to stay single as much as he does. He needs a bad boyfriend. There's only one man for the job. Flynn Delaney is used to people on the island of Ceremony thinking the worst of him. But he isn't sure he wants the dubious honor of worst boyfriend on the entire island. On the other hand, if he plays along, he gets to hang out with the gorgeous Nathan and piss off the owners of the Granshire Hotel. It's a win-win. There's only one problem-Flynn's actually quite a good boyfriend, and now Nathan's wondering if getting off the sofa occasionally is really the worst thing in the world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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First, I want to comment that I do think this was a cute plot idea, even though the story didn’t work for me. I will mention some things I thought the author did well at the end.
The blurb sounded so promising. Pretend boyfriends between two older men who couldn’t be more different in personality and lifestyle. However, the execution of the plot fell far short. I was very disappointed even though I held out hope the story would pull itself together by the end. As soon as I started reading, I felt something was off with the writing. My mind wandered and I had to force it back to reading. I concentrated on why I was having problems staying focused.
The plot. It sounded like the book would be about the relationship between Nate and Flynn, but no. Instead, the relationship was the backdrop for the wedding that Nate was organizing and the rescues Flynn went on. I wondered why I felt cheated about the relationship. It was because it wasn’t the front story. The relationship was the third story behind Flynn's rescues and Nate’s business.
The first couple of chapters nothing important happened. Just a lot of description of stuff. In fact, that was one of the problems with this story; there was too much description of nothing. Things like: the coffee was too hot or too cold. How it burned someone’s lips and where the cup was tossed, or the coffee spilled. There was a lot of talking about coffee that didn’t lend anything to the story. There was a lot of monologue, and it was telling rather than showing. The first quarter of the book could have easily been pared down. In fact, the book would have improved if it lost fifty pages and eliminated much of the description that didn’t move the plot along.
As I pushed myself through the story, I wondered why I couldn’t get into it. Why I felt like I was reading through a fog, at least mostly for the first half of the book. I finally realized that part of the reason was the sentence structure. The sentences often were almost all long, the same length, the same rhythm with sometimes an unrelated comment or thought inserted in the middle of the sentence. I don’t think I would have noticed if the same structure happened infrequently, but since it happened often enough, I picked up on it. Sometimes, the sentences didn’t seem to relate or segue into what happened to the next sentence or paragraph. I felt like I couldn’t get a grip on the story because my mind was jerked in different directions.
Another problem was some of the words used. Maybe it’s me, but I found that some words were used oddly. The one that sticks in my mind, and I’m paraphrasing here, is when Nate and Flynn are kissing. I think it was from Nate’s pov, talked about Flynn’s ‘muscle’ delving into his mouth. That ‘muscle’ was Flynn’s tongue. That is not sexy or romantic, at least not to me. I found more than a few of what I consider, odd word usages or sentences that threw me out of the story.
I did like the plot idea, but nothing much was done with it. Nate and Flynn got together in public a few times to get the gossips going. They got together for sex and supposedly, that’s when they discovered they really liked each other. On the sex, I feel there was too much. It was used as a plot crutch that really didn’t move the story along, just used to keep the reader interested. The two men never discussed anything important together during sex or revealed anything important to each other about themselves that built a connection. Flynn was tight lipped about his past except for telling Nate about how he got a scar. The only thing they had in common was sex and fantasies. We’re supposed to believe they fall in love because they liked sex with each other? Nowhere in the story did the author convince me that the men had a heartfelt connection other than sex.
Now to the characters. Here I think the author did a decent job. It’s implied at the beginning of the story that Nate is a good person, taking care of his mother and he has a good job. He has a best friend named Max. Flynn has the reputation of a bad boy, at least all the rumors going around the island say he is. As the story moves along, we begin to learn that isn’t the case. That maybe it’s Flynn who’s one of the few good people on the island and Nate, and especially Max, aren’t very great. Sure, Flynn is rough around the collar, but he is kind. The things he does to help people shows he’s kind. He doesn’t fight back against the gossips, usually anyway. Nate on the other hand is consumed by his work and wanting people to quit setting him up. That’s why he gets the idea to ‘date’ Flynn. However, he never considers how it will affect Flynn when they fake break up. How people will despise Flynn even more. Nate’s all about Nate. That he looks put together on the outside, but he doesn't know how to have a relationship and gives up easily, usually trying to find the quick way out. The golden boy who has never had any real challenges to overcome. Flynn struck me as his age throughout the story, but Nate and Max acted like immature guys in their twenties, I had to keep reminding myself that they were close to forty. The author did a good job in getting me to cheer for Flynn instead of Nate. Flynn isn’t perfect, but he’s a good guy.
There’s a small mystery that’s tied to the gossips and rumors that I liked. What I didn’t like was it was hard to follow along because it was covered up by the extra description and the front story of the wedding Nate was planning. The other part I found difficult to follow was the way secondary characters were introduced, especially at the beginning. It was haphazard so I just gave up and hoped I’d figure it out as I read further.
To finalize, I found Wanted – Bad Boyfriend a disappointment. It didn’t live up to the blurb; it was too filled with description, too long with too much monologue, and telling. Shortening the story by 50 pages at the very minimum, would pick up the pace and delete unnecessary description. Also focusing on Nate and Flynn instead of the wedding and the rescues would make the story more interesting. I didn’t buy into the relationship because so little time was spent on building it up. I can only give this book 2 Stars
An arc copy of this book was provided to me for an honest and unbiased review.