Served Hot

In a bid to find a book to read from the ebooks on offer from my library, I grabbed another Annabeth Albert - mostly because I was remembering how much I liked her #gaymers series and was hoping that maybe it was just her military series that didn't work for me.

However, this novella really didn't either.

The novella is divided into four parts.

Part one is the get together and I liked it and our boys.

Part two is sex and drama. Lots of sex. Too much sex for me, being honest.

Part three is the lack of communication drama. And sex. Hated both.

Part four is something that actually looks like a healthy couple.


I'll take the first part and the forth part and a little dose of the second part (the drama) and be happy. The third part made me kind of dislike eveything - but especially the way hese two refuse to communicate and Robby in general.


General Word-vomit to Follow








It started off well Robby being cute and awkward and David being sweet and awkward. Then they got together and it soon (in the story, because it skips months at a time) became a case of every time they are alone together, they have sex. Not something I like.

But then, after being together something like nine months, we get this quote from Robby: ‘I wasn't sure we wanted the same thing.' (This book is told in Robby's first person perspective.) This is because Robby and David do not communicate. There's many, many times Robby thinks/feels he should say something to David, ask what David wants, make sure they are on the same page, but he doesn't.

David, who knows what's going on in his head. Is he as conversation-phobic as Robby? Does he actually think they're communicating well and on the same page? We'll never know. But Robby knows David doesn't know what he's doing. David had an asswipe of a boyfriend and Robby learns this is why David assumes things in a relationship to be one way. (Such as never spending the night after sex.) And Robby still refuses to bring these things up.

Which leaves me veering between thinking it is manufactured drama and having no liking of Robby. At all. And I'm so ot used to the romance in novellas relying on miscommunication - or, rather, in this case, missed communication - and it's a big hate of mine. (And the almost requisit misunderstanding that forces the couple apart.)

“You need to at least ask him what he wants instead of decinding for him.” (20 year old barista. Who has more sense that our ‘hero.' And I don't know how old Robby is supposed to be, but he reads very young.)