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A review by ripavengers
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club by Doug Henderson
2.0
This book could have been a lot more. All of the characters had something to them that makes you go “yeah this is going to be good” but I felt as though the author did not take full advantage of them.
So we have Ben as the main character, which fine. Completely understand his plight as a mid twenty year old with no job prospects. But that was kind of his only personality trait. And I feel as though by Ben’s story taking the forefront, everyone else’s stories were undeveloped.
Mooneyham and Huey probably had the next most page time. But Mooneyham’s whole thing was “should I come out at work?” and Huey’s whole character existed to be subject to homophobia, and even a few remarks towards Asians.
Valerie’s subplot was so weird. She had a kind of girlfriend and also a run in with vampires that honestly I still don’t understand. Her having povs made no difference to the plot at all.
And Celeste. She had a couple of povs for really no reason. Like she didn’t really have a plot in this.
Also I guess Albert had a few povs at the end to make us feel bad for him? I’m not sure.
I just think this book had so many characters and not enough time to do anything with them. They were all pretty one dimensionally and bland. Also there was a continuous use of the g slur thats used towards romani people in one chapter which was quite uncomfortable to read.
The positives of this book would be that everyone was unapologetically LGBT and the relationships were cute. Also some scenes were funny. But really I think it needed to be fleshed out a bit more and scanned for harmful comments from various characters that were unnecessary.
ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
So we have Ben as the main character, which fine. Completely understand his plight as a mid twenty year old with no job prospects. But that was kind of his only personality trait. And I feel as though by Ben’s story taking the forefront, everyone else’s stories were undeveloped.
Mooneyham and Huey probably had the next most page time. But Mooneyham’s whole thing was “should I come out at work?” and Huey’s whole character existed to be subject to homophobia, and even a few remarks towards Asians.
Valerie’s subplot was so weird. She had a kind of girlfriend and also a run in with vampires that honestly I still don’t understand. Her having povs made no difference to the plot at all.
And Celeste. She had a couple of povs for really no reason. Like she didn’t really have a plot in this.
Also I guess Albert had a few povs at the end to make us feel bad for him? I’m not sure.
I just think this book had so many characters and not enough time to do anything with them. They were all pretty one dimensionally and bland. Also there was a continuous use of the g slur thats used towards romani people in one chapter which was quite uncomfortable to read.
The positives of this book would be that everyone was unapologetically LGBT and the relationships were cute. Also some scenes were funny. But really I think it needed to be fleshed out a bit more and scanned for harmful comments from various characters that were unnecessary.
ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.