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Adder (2009)

by Ally Blue(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1605044873 (ISBN13: 9781605044873)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing

review 1: 2.75. It's so annoying when a story is built upon miscommunication. If Adder and Kalil had learned to talk to each other, most of the drama could have been avoided.Usually, I find this author's books much more engaging. Adder was a bit annoying (the constant endearments, the "I'm so hot" attitude), and Kalil was over the top with his jealousy.The reconciliation scene was a true WTF moment. It made no sense that that's how Adder would choose to win back Kalil or that, stunningly, it would work. It ruined the ending for me.
review 2: For some reason, I didn’t love either of the main charactersWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 6/10PROS: - I always enjoy reading about lifestyles or locations or events I don’t know mu... morech about, and this story depicts the lives of professional musicians in enough detail that the setting and storyline both seemed a bit exotic to me.- At first, I found Adder’s old-fashioned, formal way of speaking to be odd. (Here’s an example: “Where would you like to go, my dear? The city is yours tonight, and I shall be your devoted escort.”) But after a while I got used to it, and then I started to see it as consistent with (and necessary to) his flamboyant persona.- The secondary characters are cute. Adder and his bandmates are relaxed and easy with one another: the others are lively and care-free, but they’re also appropriately serious when the situation calls for it. - Many of the descriptions are vivid and kind of funny: “every wispy little Goth girl in the place seemed to osmose to the front row to worship Kalil in their near-silent, disturbingly intense way.”- Blue does a good job of showing Adder and Kalil’s relationship as it develops over time. This isn’t JUST a story about 2 guys meeting and falling in love. It’s about the meeting, the falling in love, the (inevitable but temporary) breakup, the staying in love, and the reunion. (See cons below also)CONS:- I found Adder amusing but not very attractive. In addition to the fact that he does something toward the end of the book that made me almost hate him, throughout the story he’s arrogant and almost always flippant, and his seduction of Kalil is too calculated for my taste. I wanted to see much more seriousness from him, mixed in with the playfulness. Even Kalil finds him a little trying at times: he refers to Adder at one point as an “annoying, melodramatic man-child with an ego the size of China.”- Kalil was also rather difficult for me to like. He’s a nice guy, sure, but his jealousy where Adder is concerned is so intense that after a while I found it exhausting, and to be honest, I found Kalil’s brooding nature to be rather annoyingly self-indulgent at times, too.- The early stages of Adder and Kalil’s acquaintance leap forward by weeks at a time, so we get a sense that their attraction is growing, but we don’t get to SEE much of that. I particularly wanted to see Adder get rebuffed a more times (rather than simply hearing about it) so that I had some insight into why Kalil’s resistance to Adder’s advances drives Adder so crazy.Overall comments: I’m a pretty big fan of Ally Blue, but this simply isn’t one of my favorite stories by her. That said, it’s a light, happy little read, and although the period of angst and separation is pretty long for the CHARACTERS, we readers have to suffer through only a couple of chapters before the guys are back together. less

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