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A review by lezreadalot
Drawn Together by Z.A. Maxfield
1.0
Gonna make this quick because this book is very much a bad taste that I want to wash out of my mouth. Already wasted 5 of the 10 minutes I said I would give to this review by watching other ratings and wondering what in the world people saw in this book. True: the first hour or so was iffy, but not totally bad. But then it steadily devolved.
- Blah blah crazy people are out to get you blah blah. I'M TIRED OF IT. All the writing was lazy. Stalking is a serious issue and I mean a good mystery/thriller could potentially be written about it? But this ain't it.
- So much of the plot didn't make sense. It started not making sense from the minute the Jenkins told Yamane and Rory: "Welp I can't protect you, here lemme break the law to let you slip away and go on the run from a stalker."
- You have to know when white people write people of colour. Rory describes a situation where his grandmother might react negatively to him bringing home a Japanese man, and Yamane... apologises??? Ooooooh boy.
- Hey actually everything about Rory's obsession with Yamane is bad, he's a fucking weeb and I'm going to knife him.
- We gonna talk about Rory assaulting Yamane or nah? Because it was definitely assault: he knew what he was doing, he knew Yamane was drunk and half asleep, he did it anyway and ends by thinking 'huh if he ever finds out I'm gonna have some explaining to do'. THAT AIN'T ROMANCE.
- Also I just remembered: Rory punched Yamane in the face one time because he was 'so worried' after someone else almost attacked Yamane and he ran off. And Rory couldn't find him. And was worried. So when he found him, he punched him. ?_?
- Rory's actually just a really awful person wrapped up in a Nice Guy TM package!
- This story drifted and went absolutely nowhere. They were just on a prolonged roadtrip. Sometimes we got some useless insight from one of Emilia's henchman (why keep thinking that you don't trust her; DO something about it). Sometimes someone got stabbed. No one in this story is as clever as they think and it was super tiresome.
- Talking about loving each other after a few days is the surest way to get me to roll my eyes.
- This isn't important but... why are so many people calling this book 'gay for you'? Rory says multiple times that Yamane isn't the only man he's ever been attracted to, just the first he's been with. Lol.
Two good things about this book: the narrator, Greg Boudreaux, was quite good. Loved his voices, especially for all the Southern people.
The other good thing about this book is that it's fucking over. I hate abandoning books once I get far enough into them but oh man, this one tested me.
- Blah blah crazy people are out to get you blah blah. I'M TIRED OF IT. All the writing was lazy. Stalking is a serious issue and I mean a good mystery/thriller could potentially be written about it? But this ain't it.
- So much of the plot didn't make sense. It started not making sense from the minute the Jenkins told Yamane and Rory: "Welp I can't protect you, here lemme break the law to let you slip away and go on the run from a stalker."
- You have to know when white people write people of colour. Rory describes a situation where his grandmother might react negatively to him bringing home a Japanese man, and Yamane... apologises??? Ooooooh boy.
- Hey actually everything about Rory's obsession with Yamane is bad, he's a fucking weeb and I'm going to knife him.
- We gonna talk about Rory assaulting Yamane or nah? Because it was definitely assault: he knew what he was doing, he knew Yamane was drunk and half asleep, he did it anyway and ends by thinking 'huh if he ever finds out I'm gonna have some explaining to do'. THAT AIN'T ROMANCE.
- Also I just remembered: Rory punched Yamane in the face one time because he was 'so worried' after someone else almost attacked Yamane and he ran off. And Rory couldn't find him. And was worried. So when he found him, he punched him. ?_?
- Rory's actually just a really awful person wrapped up in a Nice Guy TM package!
- This story drifted and went absolutely nowhere. They were just on a prolonged roadtrip. Sometimes we got some useless insight from one of Emilia's henchman (why keep thinking that you don't trust her; DO something about it). Sometimes someone got stabbed. No one in this story is as clever as they think and it was super tiresome.
- Talking about loving each other after a few days is the surest way to get me to roll my eyes.
- This isn't important but... why are so many people calling this book 'gay for you'? Rory says multiple times that Yamane isn't the only man he's ever been attracted to, just the first he's been with. Lol.
Two good things about this book: the narrator, Greg Boudreaux, was quite good. Loved his voices, especially for all the Southern people.
The other good thing about this book is that it's fucking over. I hate abandoning books once I get far enough into them but oh man, this one tested me.