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bibt198's review
3.0
Rating 2.5
There was nothing new about this story for me. I grew up watching tons of Bollywood movies and this kind of story line was their motto, except the two guys falling in love part of course.
Anyway, it was a simple rom com nothing much. When I first started reading it I was hooked. I loved the writing and the main character Andrew. But as the events unfolded the story lost it's charm. Andrew was just plain stupid and the writer made him super stupid so that he could take the story forward. The things that Andrew did made no sense to me. And was the point where the writer and the book lost me. I still like it for it simple, lighthearted story and writing but that's all.
There was nothing new about this story for me. I grew up watching tons of Bollywood movies and this kind of story line was their motto, except the two guys falling in love part of course.
Anyway, it was a simple rom com nothing much. When I first started reading it I was hooked. I loved the writing and the main character Andrew. But as the events unfolded the story lost it's charm. Andrew was just plain stupid and the writer made him super stupid so that he could take the story forward. The things that Andrew did made no sense to me. And was the point where the writer and the book lost me. I still like it for it simple, lighthearted story and writing but that's all.
apostrophen's review
5.0
First off, I rarely give "just for fun" books five stars. This one deserved it, so there's the beginning of just how wonderful this book was.
Picture a book editor, Andrew, recently (and not willingly) single and gay, whose ex just picked up something younger and cuter. Andrew's first two books are on the bargain bin, he's feeling pretty down, and then at an opening party for a new gay bar, he meets the man of his dreams, the man who could just maybe be, Mr. Right.
If Mr. Right was a quasi-heterosexual son of one of the worst Mafia Capo bosses in the city.
This was my first Byrnes book, and I read it in the space of a day. I cried I laughed so hard (and I also got tossed out of a pizza joint for laughing too much when I read this book). This book isn't just funny, it's witty, and that's a style in short demand. The bon-mots are fabulous, the plot is so completely outrageous that it has a Evanovich-esque slaptstick to it that just totally leaves you gasping for air between guffaws. And beyond it all, there's Andrew, hopeless (and hopeful) romantic, dodging thugs, police, FBI, his best friends, and once or twice having nookie that will curl your toes.
Phenom. When Byrnes puts out a book, I nab them immediately.
Picture a book editor, Andrew, recently (and not willingly) single and gay, whose ex just picked up something younger and cuter. Andrew's first two books are on the bargain bin, he's feeling pretty down, and then at an opening party for a new gay bar, he meets the man of his dreams, the man who could just maybe be, Mr. Right.
If Mr. Right was a quasi-heterosexual son of one of the worst Mafia Capo bosses in the city.
This was my first Byrnes book, and I read it in the space of a day. I cried I laughed so hard (and I also got tossed out of a pizza joint for laughing too much when I read this book). This book isn't just funny, it's witty, and that's a style in short demand. The bon-mots are fabulous, the plot is so completely outrageous that it has a Evanovich-esque slaptstick to it that just totally leaves you gasping for air between guffaws. And beyond it all, there's Andrew, hopeless (and hopeful) romantic, dodging thugs, police, FBI, his best friends, and once or twice having nookie that will curl your toes.
Phenom. When Byrnes puts out a book, I nab them immediately.
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