A review by drewsof
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers

4.0

A slim hazy weekend of a book, one that pulls you in and along too fast to really think too hard about it until the inevitable Monday-of-an-ending looms over the horizon. This isn't quite the sexual-thriller you might expect it to be, nor is it quite so humorous as it first appears. It's something far more complicated, and perhaps it's because Somers doesn't spell it out for the reader that it ends up being a more successful book for those complications. Yes, there are questions of entitled older men behaving badly, of the way they set poor examples for younger men, of the ways in which the comedy industry and the TV industry are flawed, the ways in which we don't really see each other as human (let alone when one of the people in an equation is a celebrity). It's a sad book without being SAD, a funny book without being FUNNY -- and worth your read over some weekend. So long as you finish before that Monday comes.