Somebody to Love

3.5 the story 4.5 for the audio // the rating is mostly for the ABThis came from an Audible sale shopping spree and though I didn't LOVE the story I really enjoyed the audio by [a:Jack Dupont 8018278 Jack Dupont https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and [a:J. F. Harding 21790011 J. F. Harding https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]. They were perfect.Don't get me wrong, I liked the story. It's the standard guy who never felt a connection with any woman he dated but at the ripe old age of forty-four meets the yin to his yang. Tyler Jamison (44) is Chicago police detective and when he's called to the scene of a murder he comes in contact with Ian Alexander (28) a witness and a possible future victim. Ian is openly gay while Tyler has no vocabulary to say what he is or isn't. In other words romance heaven.I guess my lack of enthusiasm for the story goes like this: * It reads like a Nora Ephron movie, which I enjoy as much as the next person, but they are smooth, slick things. * Everyone in Tyler & Ian's life is accepting and affirming, which ... maybe? * Tyler goes from never even saying the word gay in relation to himself to giving head like a pornstar on the strength of watching some gay porn. * Ian & Tyler are tireless doubting Thomases in their heads and that can be exhausting. * Ian's mourning or lack of mourning after a friend is murdered is bit ... off putting? Maybe the insta lust is a way to deal with grief? * Clearly Tyler was background character in other book(s) by the author and the protagonists of those stories are introduced here. It's not confusing, but there's quite an ensemble. In any case I'd read/listen to more books in the series.