Title: "Bright Lights Big City" with a gay man
Product review: Toby Griffin is 22 and lives in NY. He wantst to get a screenplay published and made into a movie but has no luck. He has various jobs with online magazines and spends most of his nights out with his friends getting drunk, meeting guys and immediately falling in love. Naturally none of this relationships work. Then a horrific disaster happens with him and his friends and Toby startsto unravel.There's nothing really new or original here. I've seen (and read) stories like this before. However the characters are engaging, the situations realistic and I never wanted to put this down. Dolby is a very good writer with a good ear for dialogue particularly. The books moves quickly and is easy to read without being simplistic. My only complaint (and this is a small one) is that I didn't believe the happy ending at all...but it does work. Worth reading especially for younger gay men. It captures just what it's like to be young, gay and in a big city.
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