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Slam!
by JL Merrow
4.5 stars. And most of them for the humor in Jude's character.
I'm betting this book will have big fans and others perhaps less enamored, completely depending on how they feel about Jude. I loved him, giggled at his OTT enthusiasms, enjoyed his limericks, and didn't find his immaturity irksome. I liked his British language and idiosyncratic phrases, his unapologetic flaming, and his dog. A character like that is difficult to pull off, and for me, J.L. Merrow did it very well. There were enough little touches of emotion to keep this from being pure comedy, and I enjoyed some of the secondary characters.
The romance in this story takes a bit of a backseat to Jude's larger-than-life antics, and it happens over a fairly short span. David is a bit of an enigma, since this is written in Jude's first person POV. The end could have come a bit slower and less neatly, with a bit more romance in between. But this is one that will go on my comfort-reread shelf, for making me laugh out loud several times, something that's rare and which I value in a book that also ended in warmth.
I'm betting this book will have big fans and others perhaps less enamored, completely depending on how they feel about Jude. I loved him, giggled at his OTT enthusiasms, enjoyed his limericks, and didn't find his immaturity irksome. I liked his British language and idiosyncratic phrases, his unapologetic flaming, and his dog. A character like that is difficult to pull off, and for me, J.L. Merrow did it very well. There were enough little touches of emotion to keep this from being pure comedy, and I enjoyed some of the secondary characters.
The romance in this story takes a bit of a backseat to Jude's larger-than-life antics, and it happens over a fairly short span. David is a bit of an enigma, since this is written in Jude's first person POV. The end could have come a bit slower and less neatly, with a bit more romance in between. But this is one that will go on my comfort-reread shelf, for making me laugh out loud several times, something that's rare and which I value in a book that also ended in warmth.