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A review by geo_ix
Faking It by Riley Hart, Devon McCormack
3.0
This book had lots of good parts and a few questionable ones.
The first bit I didn’t like was the tower situation. It’s basically two connecting apartment buildings that seems to have only gay men living in them? I think it said something like ‘nearly everyone was a gay man’ or something, also connects to my other, that apart from parents, I don’t actually remember even one line uttered by a female? Neither main character had any female friends (one had someone he worked with but there was no interaction with her). It just seemed to stand out more and more as it went on, and I guess it seemed weird because of the apartment thing too.
I did enjoy the characters, I think there was room for a little more angst because these two were a little angst but I never felt that gut clenching feeling apart from that one scene where Travis asks if he did something wrong (best emotional scene in the book).
The scene where Gary confronts Travis’s parents was a little too TV drama for me. It came across like a high schooler giving an adult a big angst filled speech and I don’t really feel it was necessary even if it made Travis fall more in love.
The steaminess of the book was alright, nothing particularly blazing not to me, but there was a nice little burn.
The ex drama was annoying. Every time he came into a scene I was dying. These guys are nearly 30. It’s so juvenile, jealousy or alpha vibes or not, the interactions were mind numbingly dumb.
But overall I really did like reading this. It was SUPER quick. Only took around 4ish hours to read. It was fun. I would have liked a little more emotion, but overall a great book.
The first bit I didn’t like was the tower situation. It’s basically two connecting apartment buildings that seems to have only gay men living in them? I think it said something like ‘nearly everyone was a gay man’ or something, also connects to my other, that apart from parents, I don’t actually remember even one line uttered by a female? Neither main character had any female friends (one had someone he worked with but there was no interaction with her). It just seemed to stand out more and more as it went on, and I guess it seemed weird because of the apartment thing too.
I did enjoy the characters, I think there was room for a little more angst because these two were a little angst but I never felt that gut clenching feeling apart from that one scene where Travis asks if he did something wrong (best emotional scene in the book).
The scene where Gary confronts Travis’s parents was a little too TV drama for me. It came across like a high schooler giving an adult a big angst filled speech and I don’t really feel it was necessary even if it made Travis fall more in love.
The steaminess of the book was alright, nothing particularly blazing not to me, but there was a nice little burn.
The ex drama was annoying. Every time he came into a scene I was dying. These guys are nearly 30. It’s so juvenile, jealousy or alpha vibes or not, the interactions were mind numbingly dumb.
But overall I really did like reading this. It was SUPER quick. Only took around 4ish hours to read. It was fun. I would have liked a little more emotion, but overall a great book.