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A review by cadiva
Fakers by Mark Summers
3.0
The idea is good but execution needs polishing
This isn't a bad storyline, the basic premise, while an often used trope, actually has decent planning and a nice twist with a scheming gay best friend
Unfortunately, the execution of the tale is muddled and there are simply too many voices all trying to be heard at once. On top of that, the secondary story with Adi's family just confuses matters and doesn't really need to be there for me as it simply distracts from the development of the GFY friends to lovers relationship of Adi and Noah.
Gay best friend Oliver also sometimes gets in the way too, we don't really need to see inside his head so there is a slight naivety to the whole story which comes from the MCs only being 20.
I think if they'd been say 25/26 then the idea of Adi taking on his two younger brothers wouldn't have seemed so unlikely.
However, having said all of the above, the central relationship between Adi and Noah is executed perfectly and is well drawn and believable and has a sweet conclusion.
A little bit of tightening up on the silly tense changes, odd grammatical errors and editing mistakes like the wrong character name being used and thus book could have jumped up to a 4* review easily. I think Summers has talent and with more experience and more a tighter editing and beta reviewing team, he could have a decent career as an MM romance author.
* While I downloaded and read this via Kindle Unlimited, the author did ask me to provide an honest review so I'm popping this disclaimer on.
I will also say a lot of the little errors probably stand out more to me having had a near 20 year career as a journalist and sub editor.
The cover is a definite plus point too ;)
This isn't a bad storyline, the basic premise, while an often used trope, actually has decent planning and a nice twist with a scheming gay best friend
Unfortunately, the execution of the tale is muddled and there are simply too many voices all trying to be heard at once. On top of that, the secondary story with Adi's family just confuses matters and doesn't really need to be there for me as it simply distracts from the development of the GFY friends to lovers relationship of Adi and Noah.
Gay best friend Oliver also sometimes gets in the way too, we don't really need to see inside his head so there is a slight naivety to the whole story which comes from the MCs only being 20.
I think if they'd been say 25/26 then the idea of Adi taking on his two younger brothers wouldn't have seemed so unlikely.
However, having said all of the above, the central relationship between Adi and Noah is executed perfectly and is well drawn and believable and has a sweet conclusion.
A little bit of tightening up on the silly tense changes, odd grammatical errors and editing mistakes like the wrong character name being used and thus book could have jumped up to a 4* review easily. I think Summers has talent and with more experience and more a tighter editing and beta reviewing team, he could have a decent career as an MM romance author.
* While I downloaded and read this via Kindle Unlimited, the author did ask me to provide an honest review so I'm popping this disclaimer on.
I will also say a lot of the little errors probably stand out more to me having had a near 20 year career as a journalist and sub editor.
The cover is a definite plus point too ;)