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Wacky Wednesday (2012)

by J.A. Rock(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

publisher

Loose Id

series

Wacky Wednesday

review 1: Here’s the thing, I hate awkward…like really hate it. Anything that’s puts someone in that incredibly uncomfortable position where you just know they’re going to put their foot in their mouth or something equally as unpleasant, yeah it all makes me cringe and want to hide my eyes. The moment I started this book I knew I was going to be getting heaps of awkward. I mean heck that’s the entire premise of these sort of body swapping stories, round after round of awkward until everything works itself out in the end. Yet in spite of numerous, cringe worthy, “gah I just can’t look/read” moments I still found myself enjoying this book.Jayk is a brat. He knows it, his partner knows it, it’s a given. But that’s the best part of being with Amon. He knows ho... morew to keep Jayk in line, he makes Jayk feel safe and secure. But sometimes Jayk wishes Amon understood that his life wasn’t that easy and that things were a struggle for him. School isn’t the easy breeze for Jayk and he does try hard it just never seems to work out quite the way Jayk would want it to. As much as Jayk loves his dominant partner, when all the stresses in his life get to be too much Jayk just gets more bratty. Still he never expected to wake up wearing the body of his hunky lover.Amon knows he loves a brat and nine times out of ten he loves even that side of Jayk, but there are times when his own stresses get to be too much and all Amon wants is Jayk to settle down. Of course that always seems to be when Jayk’s being his worst and it forces Amon to crack down on him even harder. He knows Jayk craves that stability and yet somehow they don’t seem to be communicating anymore. He wishes Jayk could spend just one day in his shoes and see how complicated Amon’s life is, maybe then he’d understand that sometimes Amon just needs a little peace. He never really expected that wish to work and to wake up in the slight frame of his much younger lover.Ok first of all I really liked Jayk and Amon. Large age gaps like this sometimes make me a little squicky, but somehow these two just really work together. Jayk comes across as so much of a teenager at times with his ADD and a number of his antics in Amon’s body were giggle worthy. Amon really settles him though and Jayk wants so badly for Amon to see him as the adult man he is. He just has a ton of energy and no idea what to do with it all. He’s really quite a simple guy and doesn’t need/want a lot of things for himself other than Amon.Amon on the other hand, boy does he need to learn to let go a little bit. He’s lost sight of how to be a good Dom to his Sub because of how much stress he’s putting on himself. His rigid need to control everything actually has more of his world spinning out of control than even he realizes. Strangely enough Amon feels more lost than Jayk ever could. Jayk knows himself very well he just doesn’t know how to make Amon happy as easily as he would like. Amon tries too hard to right everything in his world and when the world doesn’t conform he just tries harder.Seeing these two deal with the stresses of each others lives was mostly fun, but man those awkward moments had me all twitchy, most especially when of course everything they’re trying to do for the other one comes crashing down around their ears. Sure I know that in this type of story there’s not going to be any long term repercussions, but it still makes me super twitchy and if it was a movie I’d be squeezing my eyes shut and covering my ears until the awkward had passed. Yeah, I’m weird scary doesn’t do anything to me, but give my gross uncomfortable social awkwardness and I’m the kid who can’t watch. :-pAll together this is a fun little story that follows pretty much the lines you would expect from a swapping bodies story. I liked the characters a lot and the writing is very solid. It’s a fun, quick little read and proves the author is definitely worth going back to. ☺
review 2: First, let me state that my rating is not really an accurate indicator of my personal reaction to the book. I gave it an extra star because it's competent writing.I didn't enjoy it. I don't understand why when it has all my favourite themes in MM romance. Age gap...check.BDSM...check.Domestic discipline (and bratty sub)...check.Decent writing...check.Heck, it's even an homage to Freaky Friday, both movies that I enjoyed.Yet, I wasn't enthralled. Jayk and Amon are at that period in their relationship where things become rocky and it's the fork in the road where relationships either crash and burn or grow stronger.Through some weird intervention, they both swap bodies. I liked the flashbacks to the beginning of their relationship. It helped to establish the depth of their relationship that would otherwise have seemed more shallow at the point where the story started.The role reversal hook in this book should have fascinated me, but instead I was repelled.I felt very uncomfortable seeing Jayk take over Amon's life and doing things his way. I think this feeling I had is actually a credit to the author because Amon's working life was portrayed so realistically. Half the time I was going "Nooooo, HR directors shouldn't be doing this. OMG!"I didn't like seeing Amon try to "fix" Jayk's life either but it was good that he realised he did make mistakes.I guess the role reversal just didn't hit the right buttons for me.The book IS good. I just didn't like it as much as other people did. less

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