Reviewed by: Marieke
Title: My Favorite Uncle
Author: Marshall Thornton
Publisher: Wild City Press
Length: 83.000 words
Blurb:
Martin Dixon’s carefully-constructed, peaceful life is turned upside down when his super Christian eighteen-year-old nephew Carter shows up unexpectedly on his doorstep and announces he’s gay. Martin’s first impulse is to send him back to his parents. But when he discovers that Carter has been in a mental hospital to cure his gay-ness he realizes he’s stuck with the boy. Unfortunately, the two get on each other’s nerves, each driving the other to distraction. Independently, however, they each arrive at the same conclusion. The other would be much less annoying if he only had… a boyfriend.
Review:
I’ll start with mentioning all the positive things about this book. First of all, the writing style is good. It’s easy to read, understandable and you get what the author is trying to do. You get the story!
Secondly, the book is funny. At least some parts were and if you have the same sense of humor as the author you’ll probably think the whole book is hilarious.
Also, the characters are fleshed out pretty good. You get to see all of their thoughts and emotions, which is a wonderful thing in any book.
Now, as for the negatives, remember this is my personal opinion. I didn’t get the humor every time. I knew something was supposed to be funny, but I just didn’t think it was.
But the main reason this will never be my favorite story is because the two leaing characters were very annoying to me.
Carter was too innocent and ignorant. As in, believed everything his highly religious parents, school, church and mental hospital has ever told him. Like; gay’s have around five hundredth sexual partners a year…every year! Gays always die young and of Aids… It was too unbelievable and just plain annoying.
Martin was an asshole. Selfish and irritatingly unwilling to take care of his nephew. When he finally did, he went about it in the worst way possible. Sure there’s an happy end, sort of…. The relationship between Martin and Carter is actually the happy end. They get along and go on with their lives. But no real big love, no happily ever after.
For the rating I’ve kept in mind that most people will probably like the sense of humor in this book, and don’t mind the ignorance in Carter and Martin. But for me, this was not a great read.
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