Cary Attwell
Kindle Edition | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.86 | 1479 Users | 220 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Other Guy |
| Author | : | Cary Attwell |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
| Published | : | October 26th 2012 |
| Categories | : | Romance. M M Romance. Contemporary. LGBT. Humor |
Description As Books The Other Guy
Emory James is, by his own admission, not the type of person the adjective exciting would ever deign to touch with a ten-foot pole. Cautious, reserved and staid, however, all crowd around him like best friends. Still, he gets by -- or at least he gets by up until his fiancée dumps him at the altar. Out of spite, he takes a solo honeymoon to Thailand, where he can pretend to be someone better than himself for a little while. In meeting Nate, a fellow traveler, Emory slowly discovers how to stop pretending.Word Count: 58,561 (approx.)
Present Books Conducive To The Other Guy
| Original Title: | The Other Guy ASIN B009XWXBK2 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Thailand Illinois(United States) Chicago, Illinois(United States) |
Rating Regarding Books The Other Guy
Ratings: 3.86 From 1479 Users | 220 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books The Other Guy
Absolute perfection.I have no objections or complaints other than superficial ones of the "NOOOO! CAN'T YOU SEE YOU'RE DRIVING THIS INTO DISASTER?" sort.It was witty, it was soulful, it was profound, ALL OF THE CHARACTERS WERE QUITE FLESHED OUT, EVEN THAT MARYBETH LADY WHOSE NAME UNFORTUNATELY KEPT REMINDING ME OF LADY MACBETH AND WAS ONLY IN 1 SCENE. This calls for this meme:Average of 4 stars -The writing and hilarious narration: 4/4.5 starsThe story: 3.5 starsThe MC/narrator, Emory: 3.5 starsThe love interest, Nate: 4.5 starsI very much enjoyed most of this book. Emory's commentary was absolutely hilarious, and I thought the beginning of the book was a clever spin on a more "traditional" GFY plot. And who wouldn't fall in lust on a Thai beach, right?! That is the stuff fantasies are made of, right there.There were some things that bugged me about the Thailand
This thing starts off so intensely funny it's like a shock-and-awe campaign: Operation Rolling Chucklethunder.But once you get into the meat of the story, you find a certain number of troubling things to consider:1. A delusional MC too chickenshit to do anything but wait for his life to deteriorate around him.2. A kind of oddly anachronistic, condescendingly fustian attitude towards sex that produces a situation where two grown men circle round one another sniffing one another's ballsbut heaven
This story could have been an angst-fest, beginning as it does with the narrator, Emory, jilted at the altar by his fiancee. But the self-deprecating, determined tone of Emory's first-person narration keeps that from happening. Instead this is a light, funny, sometimes sweet, sometimes frustrating book. Although Emory and Nate come together in very early in the story, in Thailand, as Emory determinedly takes his planned honeymoon alone, this is a slow-build relationship. Emory's somewhat
3.5 StarsThis book was hard to rate. The writing was wonderful and I found myself laughing out loud throughout. Having said that, first person narration is tough. I was stuck with Emory's mental meanderings and he often wandered, which proved frustrating at times. I LOVED Nate but I felt that he got short-changed by the predictable plot twists near the end ... (view spoiler)[Michelle mysteriously reappearing AND Em not kicking her sorry ass to the curb on sight. And then, sadly, the overdone
This book was sweet and funny and passed the time perfectly on a 4 hour plane ride. I really enjoyed the story but it missing that extra umph that makes up a 5 star read. A very nice clean romance!
Dear book, you made me HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, with warm and fuzzy feeling. I wanted to squeeze you and hug you and kiss you all over. Thank you for putting a huge smile to my face ... because I rarely get that these days from this genre. You are like a ray of sunshine after a huge amount of rainy days. MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!-------------This was the story about The Other Guy. The guy that the heroine left at the altar to be with the True Love. The guy whose only fault was being boring or less-handsome
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