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A review by shelbanuadh
Disasterology 101 by Taylor V. Donovan
4.0
I've read more than a few books with characters suffering from some kind of mental illness and it never ceases to frustrate when everything is cured through the power of love. Thankfully, that isn't the case in this book. Sure, a supportive partner helps Cedric a lot, but he also has a doctor, a therapist, does group therapy, takes medication and has coping mechanisms. Cedric's OCD isn't treated as something that can cured.
Kevin's coming out experiences were slightly less realistic seeming. Everyone was either extremely accepting or a raging homophobe.
Kevin was a little harder to like than Cedric. The test he sid with Cedric was a douche move. He said a couple low blows out of frustration while going on about how supportive he is. And then getting pissed off at Cedric for "rubbing Kevin's gayness in the faces of people he'd known most of his life", which he certainly wasn't doing at the time when that thought crossed Kevin's mind. And it was 3rd parties who outed Kevin, aside from when he outed himself, not Cedric.
I did think the whole 300 day visa drama was ridiculous considering 4 chapters prior to that, Cedric mused that he's lawyers could easily extend it as long as he wanted.
The few issues I had with this aside, I just really liked the flow of the writing and I would have gladly read this in one sitting if time had allowed it.
Kevin's coming out experiences were slightly less realistic seeming. Everyone was either extremely accepting or a raging homophobe.
Kevin was a little harder to like than Cedric. The test he sid with Cedric was a douche move. He said a couple low blows out of frustration while going on about how supportive he is. And then getting pissed off at Cedric for "rubbing Kevin's gayness in the faces of people he'd known most of his life", which he certainly wasn't doing at the time when that thought crossed Kevin's mind. And it was 3rd parties who outed Kevin, aside from when he outed himself, not Cedric.
I did think the whole 300 day visa drama was ridiculous considering 4 chapters prior to that, Cedric mused that he's lawyers could easily extend it as long as he wanted.
The few issues I had with this aside, I just really liked the flow of the writing and I would have gladly read this in one sitting if time had allowed it.