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A review by maxturner
Send Me One Back?: eight eclectic stories of gay erotic romance by Lou Skelton
3.0
I will preface by saying that there are some really good stories in this collection, my personal favourites being The End of the Line and The Price of Admission. However, a lot I just didn't vibe with and not because they weren't good, but because they were not at all what I was expecting.
Never judge a book by its cover is the issue here I guess. From the silly front cover and blurb promising "humour and heart at the centre of every story" accompanied by a list of tropes, I was expecting just that. Some fun, tropey, smutty stories. The smut is there, but some of the stories weren't really fun at all. They were good stories, but some even left me feeling a little maudlin.
I've really enjoyed works by this author before and I think she is an excellent writer, I was just unable to give this more stars because it didn't deliver on expectations, which is more a marketing issue than an issue with the stories themselves but it did hinder my enjoyment.
Never judge a book by its cover is the issue here I guess. From the silly front cover and blurb promising "humour and heart at the centre of every story" accompanied by a list of tropes, I was expecting just that. Some fun, tropey, smutty stories. The smut is there, but some of the stories weren't really fun at all. They were good stories, but some even left me feeling a little maudlin.
I've really enjoyed works by this author before and I think she is an excellent writer, I was just unable to give this more stars because it didn't deliver on expectations, which is more a marketing issue than an issue with the stories themselves but it did hinder my enjoyment.