Ricky
Visiting a friend in Hawaii and I felt like reading a gay themed book set here. This book is pretty bad and must have even felt dated in 2005. Will probably check out the next book in the series but this is really bad. Somehow both tedious and offensive. The character voices in the audiobook are very uncomfortable. I'm really happy we don't have white people doing voices like this anymore. It's not just the voices though, the main character has a lot of internalized homophobia which is never really questioned or improved. It kind of feels like the author is onboard with it even.
Visiting a friend in Hawaii and I felt like reading a gay themed book set here. This book is pretty bad and must have even felt dated in 2005. Will probably check out the next book in the series but this is really bad. Somehow both tedious and offensive. The character voices in the audiobook are very uncomfortable. I'm really happy we don't have white people doing voices like this anymore. It's not just the voices though, the main character has a lot of internalized homophobia which is never really questioned or improved. It kind of feels like the author is onboard with it even.