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Title: Did I read a different book?
Review: Since I'm sure the author worked very hard on this novel, I hesitate to dump on it. However, I feel potential buyers deserve at least some warning about this novel's awfulness. To be fair, it actually starts out somewhat promising if rather conventional. I enjoyed Rod's character as Hispanic characters are few and far between in gay fiction. But the novel quickly disintegrates into unbelievably silly scenes, cloying dialogue (what passes for 'love' between Bart and Rusty will make you diabetic if you aren't already) and a plot that becomes plain stupid. And the novel's few 'twists' are either told outright before they happened or so foreshadowed as to be ridiculous. Do yourself a favor and read Michael Nava, Michael Cunningham, or Stephen McCauley, but do not read this.
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