Something Like Hail
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It’s hard to tell what the main focus of this book is. Is it about the relationship between the main character and his love interest, or is it about a series of random events that happened in the main character’s life? One of those options is less interesting than the other. Every scene in the book is written to the same level of detail as if they all have equal importance. This makes the book way longer than it should be, and it confuses the reader as to what the real point of the novel is. The book ends in an unclear way. It ends with no payoff to what it seems is the main story line. The book seems as if it is trying to put two people together in a relationship, which the reader would expect would result in a happy ending. Then the book puts the main character with someone else, and LEAVES him there for a VERY LONG TIME. Does the length of time of the second relationship imply that is as important as the first? Most readers would assume the second relationship is just a rebound relationship included in the book to separate the lovers before the final happy ending. This book attempts to go against that basic, obvious thinking and leaves the reader unhappy. But, it doesn’t even leave the main character happy. It doesn’t seem the main character really has satisfaction in the second relationship, and book spends a lot of time teasing us with thoughts of the first relationship, and even does so at the end. (Final thought, am I a bad reader if I don’t know why the book was called something like hail? I know it’s a series, but why hail? I skipped over a lot of this book and maybe that was a sentence I missed.) ---------------------------------- While reading, I took notes to focus my attention: 1% - A man is making a new start. 2% - He wants a job as an escort. 3% - He is hired and paid with a check instead of cash by the man who runs the escort business. 6% - He meets with a more experienced escort and gets his penis measured. 14% - He may be developing a friendship with the more experienced escort. 19% - He thinks about some events from the life he needed a fresh start from. 30% - Backstory unfolds between the man and the owner of the escort business. 32% - The escort business owner asks the man to turn away from people in his past, which is what I thought the man was trying to do in the first place! 35% - The man wants to be more than friends with the more experienced escort. 41% - The man and the more experienced escort decide to visit the man’s parents who rejected him years ago for being gay. 46% - The parent visit doesn’t go smoothly. 50% - The possibilities of a relationship between the man and the more experienced escort turn an unexpected corner. ?% - Other relationship options enter the lives of the man and the more experienced escort. ?% - The book is ending but the man and the more experienced escort haven’t worked out their relationship issues yet.
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It’s hard to tell what the main focus of this book is. Is it about the relationship between the main character and his love interest, or is it about a series of random events that happened in the main character’s life? One of those options is less interesting than the other. Every scene in the book is written to the same level of detail as if they all have equal importance. This makes the book way longer than it should be, and it confuses the reader as to what the real point of the novel is. The book ends in an unclear way. It ends with no payoff to what it seems is the main story line. The book seems as if it is trying to put two people together in a relationship, which the reader would expect would result in a happy ending. Then the book puts the main character with someone else, and LEAVES him there for a VERY LONG TIME. Does the length of time of the second relationship imply that is as important as the first? Most readers would assume the second relationship is just a rebound relationship included in the book to separate the lovers before the final happy ending. This book attempts to go against that basic, obvious thinking and leaves the reader unhappy. But, it doesn’t even leave the main character happy. It doesn’t seem the main character really has satisfaction in the second relationship, and book spends a lot of time teasing us with thoughts of the first relationship, and even does so at the end. (Final thought, am I a bad reader if I don’t know why the book was called something like hail? I know it’s a series, but why hail? I skipped over a lot of this book and maybe that was a sentence I missed.) ---------------------------------- While reading, I took notes to focus my attention: 1% - A man is making a new start. 2% - He wants a job as an escort. 3% - He is hired and paid with a check instead of cash by the man who runs the escort business. 6% - He meets with a more experienced escort and gets his penis measured. 14% - He may be developing a friendship with the more experienced escort. 19% - He thinks about some events from the life he needed a fresh start from. 30% - Backstory unfolds between the man and the owner of the escort business. 32% - The escort business owner asks the man to turn away from people in his past, which is what I thought the man was trying to do in the first place! 35% - The man wants to be more than friends with the more experienced escort. 41% - The man and the more experienced escort decide to visit the man’s parents who rejected him years ago for being gay. 46% - The parent visit doesn’t go smoothly. 50% - The possibilities of a relationship between the man and the more experienced escort turn an unexpected corner. ?% - Other relationship options enter the lives of the man and the more experienced escort. ?% - The book is ending but the man and the more experienced escort haven’t worked out their relationship issues yet.