Jade Cain
Author of What Not to Do on a Stakeout (For Queen & Country)
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- 3.6
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Brief summary of the story, Ethan is gay but in the closet. Isaac is straight or bi or gfy depending on what part of the story the reader is reading. The story jumps right into the middle of their ongoing attraction and how they finally get together, at a party in the restroom. For a while they stay together until Ethan breaks it off when he hears some information and is afraid that Isaac will lose his job in the sitcom. Without giving Isaac an explanation they break-up and Isaac goes back to dating women. What turned me off in this story is that the author didn’t just stick to giving us info that Isaac was dating other women, the author puts us in the middle of a bedroom scene with Isaac and his current paramour. That was a big no-no for me. I don’t like girly-bits in my m/m stories and from that point on I couldn’t take seriously the relationship between Ethan and Isaac. There’s no warning in the blurb that there is some heterosexual sex, even though it isn’t explicit, we still know Isaac has sex with this woman. So this turned me off from the story and knocks off a lot of stars.
The tense of the story was odd; I’m not sure what it was. It was almost narration style, like how an entertainment gossip magazine would write. Maybe that was intentional since the story was based on a TV show, but it made for awkward reading. I had a difficult time keeping track of which pov we were supposed to be in. What didn’t help was that the formatting wasn’t very good in my epub version and lines between the different characters ran together as one and that added to the confusion. Maybe because of the tense used, I didn’t feel very connected to the characters and couldn’t feel their emotions. It was like I was being told their emotions, and during the sex scenes my mind would wander.
The story is a fast read and I think the plot is a nice idea and would have worked out better if the story was written in all one go instead of smaller stories and if the author had gone into more depth with the characters and plot. I want to give this 2.5 Stars. But since Goodreads only gives full stars I can only give One Way Or Another 2 Stars. What keeps me from giving three stars is the fact that I was much too frequently confused about which pov I was reading the story from and the lack of the character’s ability to engage my emotions or to empathize with them. The het sex in an m/m story ruined it for me, especially without a warning it was going to be a part of the story.
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