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A review by couldbestephen
A Date for Dinner by James W. Berg
1.0
There was a part of me that had hoped that in the two years since publishing The Magestics, James W Berg had improved. Maybe he at least hired an editor to look over his work or found an honest friend to help him do some developmental editing. After seeing the typo and horrific prose on the first page, I realized I had set my hopes too high. It all went downhill from there.
The part that bugged me the most was the constant referral to the main character's homosexuality as "a lifestyle." Why a gay man is using conservative rhetoric to describe his (what feels like another self insert) gay character is beyond me. I couldn't decide if the mother was supposed to be secretly homophobic or accepting in a weirdly problematic way.
This is a classic Berg story, complete with bad dialogue, inappropriate dialogue tags, amateurish writing, and an unoriginal twist ending.
The part that bugged me the most was the constant referral to the main character's homosexuality as "a lifestyle." Why a gay man is using conservative rhetoric to describe his (what feels like another self insert) gay character is beyond me. I couldn't decide if the mother was supposed to be secretly homophobic or accepting in a weirdly problematic way.
This is a classic Berg story, complete with bad dialogue, inappropriate dialogue tags, amateurish writing, and an unoriginal twist ending.