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Catching A Buzz (2007)

by Ally Blue(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

159998573X (ISBN13: 9781599985732)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing

review 1: Not deep enough to satisfy meWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 6/10PROS: - I liked Buzz. He’s the laidback, joking sort, which is amusing; and it also makes his moments of seriousness more striking.- I found the setting entertaining. Blue captures the monotony of working at a water park pretty well.- This author is good at creating sexual tension, and she rarely disappoints on the payoff.CONS:- The story is too short to show its characters or their connection in any depth. We briefly see the first couple of interactions between them, and then the story skips ahead by several weeks. We don’t get to see what Buzz does to wear Adam down. I wanted to know when Buzz went from vaguely-interesting-but-not-tempting-enough-for-Adam-t... moreo-accept-his-offers-of-dates to irresistible.- I found Adam’s mental conversations with Scarlett O’Hara to be far less cute than I’m sure they’re supposed to be. I thought they were annoying rather than endearing, and it’s a bit disturbing that Adam converses with the Scarlett voice in his head by responding out loud.Overall comments: If you want an hour’s read with a bit of (kinky) sex, this might be a good choice. It fell flat for me, though. It’s too short to do justice to the characters or their budding romance. The file is 1878 Kindle locations, but the story is only actually 1238; the final third of the Kindle file is ads for other books.
review 2: This started out being exactly what I was looking for: a nice, fluffy summer-fling romance. Adam and Buzz meet on their job at a water park, and I loved the light-hearted summery set-up.Their first meeting and conversation was lovely and sweet and had me looking forward to more. But then we get to "as the weeks passed" and being told how they're now really good friends who've spent almost every day working together and taking all of their breaks together. /sigh. I hate being told things like that... I want to SEE it!Anyway, while disappointed, I haven't been totally put-off yet and am still willing to give these boys a chance. Buzz has apparently been asking Adam out every single day even though he's been turned down every single time. When we finally stop skipping weeks at a time, it's to a day near the end of the summer when Adam realizes he'll be starting school soon and won't see Buzz. So he agrees to a date, and they FINALLY start kissing. Then there's a weird scene with some homophobic co-workers whom we've never before met...They boys go home to get ready for their dates. And then it seems like they turn into totally different people. The date went from strange to weird to WHAT?! to waking up the next morning with Adam's mother (who doesn't yet know he's gay) knocking on the door.And then it ended. Not really very well resolved, and with like 30% still left to go. The 2nd star is for the beginning, which was honestly fun and delightful. And for the potential that the story had that I wished it had been able to achieve. less

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