Theo McPherson is definitely not that guy. He’s a short, fiery red-head who works in the arts and wears sneakers held together with duct tape. If it weren’t for the fact that Theo is his best friend’s little (literally) brother, Jeff would be crossing the street to avoid him. Theo, meanwhile, has nothing but contempt for guys in suits, and seems to have deliberately set out to make Jeff’s life miserable, all while grinning at him in that exasperating—some might say irresistible—way that he has.
At least it’s hard for Jeff to keep moping over his ex when he’s butting heads with Theo—and suddenly wondering if the last guy he’d ever fall for might be exactly that... (Pub Date: Feb 06, 2018)
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Such a delicious romantic comedy to read, I want to walk around the street distributing copies to everyone who passes by.
Ambitious Jeffrey has had a terrible year and now he needs to go through a hell of a reformation in his apartment, which was meant for when he and his ex-boyfriend moved together to conquer the world. Now alone, he's also temporarily homeless when he meets his best friend's younger brother. Theo has his love life going well, even though his thing with Madison is not well defined yet, but his career is non-existent now he got fired once again thanks to his bad temper. Frightened he'll have to go back to farmer boy days, he accepts the secretary job his sister found him in exchange for sleeping on her couch for a while. He had no idea he'd have to divide it with Jeff the jerk; it seems impossible to comply with his sister's request to be nice to her friend if jerks are what Theo hates the most.
This was funny, this was lovely. I'd say it was the book I needed to read, actually. It's been a while since I last read an actual rom-com instead of sappy romances with forced conflicts right out an afternoon soap opera.
I enjoyed the characters as well. I wasn't in love with the main couple but their interaction was great fun. And I really believed Jeffrey was very handsome. Sometimes it's hard to agree even if it's something more about imagination than anything else, but yes, Jeffrey did sound like the golden boy who had everything going for him. Talking about it, the best part was how the author manages to build this persona while the whole book is about everything going downhill for him in a very sadistic way all readers love. One of my favorite scenes illustrates this: Jeffrey all into the IT guy and the IT guy will barely acknowledge him in the room, hilarious!
And this LGBT read is actually written by a male writer. It's funnily rare to get a rom-com written by men. Moreover, a book with a strong female character. Rebecca, Theo's sister, was my favorite of all here. She's really amazing, wow! You don't see it so easily, a man writing a female character so well.
But every book has a downside and this one had a terrible flaw: it was too long. You get to the middle feeling it's already been enough. And it had been, indeed. The second half was nice to read because it gave more depth to everyone involved, it's not just a romance anymore. Theo and Jeffrey need to know whether their thing goes beyond hormones. I feel some conflicts there were a little forced, though. It was far from getting boring but the book would have felt much better with a few parts out. Jeffrey himself acts weirdly many times, changing his mind out of nowhere. As I was saying, it was rather forced.
Still, it's one of the best male/male books I've ever read. Such an amusing approach of the dividing-the-same-bed cliché! I recommend it to anyone into romantic comedies.
Rating: 4 out of 5.
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