i'm usually not really interested to read a book with goodreads rating lower than 3.7 stars. but i pretty like a couples of stormy glenn books, lot of its even, and the idea of the story i read in the blurb intrigue me. so i want to give this one a try. turnout this book is really suck and disappointing. i can't finish reading it, and i rarely do that even when a story is not really good. so for me this book is worse than just not really good. in the first chapter the story even already feel kinda not logical and unnatural, with seth who admit for always been gay suddenly falling hardly in lust for nicky as a woman. and then not long after that seth get so much angry for being lied about nicky apparently not a woman. i didn't get why he feels so much betrayed and then behaved like he did. i think he's overreacting too much when he's not nicky's boyfriend, they're not even a close friend from what i get, just a neighbor that help nicky moving in once and a couple of saying hi when passing each other in the hall way. maybe feel a little bit cheated is okay but he didn't have to be so harsh like he did. he even saying "Get the fuck out of my house. I never want to see you again. Don't stop me in the hallway. Don't call my name. Don't think about me. I don't even want you to acknowledge that I'm alive. I want nothing to do with you" and slamming something crashed against the door when nicky walked out. and i thought, wow, what a fucking drama queen jerk. he really didn't have right to behave like that and i hate that nicky didn't do anything about it, he just slumped and walked out. well, if i was nicky, i would at least said "who do you think you are?!". and there's this elliot guy who are absolutely didn't sound or act like a professional police detective at all. i don't think that in nicky situation, encouraging nicky to have much interaction and close relationship with new people is a right move. he even suddenly come knocking on seth door and go telling seth all about nicky situation and trying to be a matchmaker. this seems like a reckless move. this is when i decide that this book is really a joke. i still try to continue after that, but i just stop in about page 33. When I bought this book, its concept seemed interesting and original, but it was - unfortunately - poorly executed. First, I was disappointed by the pace of the story: it was rushed. Only after two weeks of knowing each other, Nicky's secret was out and that time wasn't even described. There was no building to the revelation. Secondly, there were so many plot holes that it was difficult to take the story seriously. The procedural aspect of the story was a complete jock. For example, in reality, no detective would fly to see a witness' potential boyfriend and entrust his witness' life to a perfect stranger. And, no witness would go back to the crime scene like Nicky did. It was such a stupid and reckless move that I almost stopped reading (but I don't like dropping a book without reading the end).It's too bad because it could've been a pleasant read.
