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A review by naranjadia
Gunner by Gianni Holmes
4.0
3.5 stars
The enmity and resistance between Ben and Gunner is worth the price of admission in this book. It produces a kind of explosive and brutish attraction that apparently fills both of their needs, and turns into a love that is likely to last, between two very different men.
Each chapter has as an epigraph a portion of the diary written by the former police chief, who secretly slept with both men and found himself incapable of being satisfied with either. He really sounds like an idiot, and once you figure out what is going in the epigraphs, they get very tedious. By the end of the book I was like, "aww, shaddup you whiner."
The mystery/crime part of Holmes books usually leave me a little incredulous and this one was no exception. There were several premises that really did not make sense, starting with Ben being named Acting Police Chief in a department where he had no support. But despite all that, it was an engaging if improbably chain of events.
The enmity and resistance between Ben and Gunner is worth the price of admission in this book. It produces a kind of explosive and brutish attraction that apparently fills both of their needs, and turns into a love that is likely to last, between two very different men.
Each chapter has as an epigraph a portion of the diary written by the former police chief, who secretly slept with both men and found himself incapable of being satisfied with either. He really sounds like an idiot, and once you figure out what is going in the epigraphs, they get very tedious. By the end of the book I was like, "aww, shaddup you whiner."
The mystery/crime part of Holmes books usually leave me a little incredulous and this one was no exception. There were several premises that really did not make sense, starting with Ben being named Acting Police Chief in a department where he had no support