Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: The Year of the Cock

AUTHOR: Shane Morton

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 250 pages

RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2017

BLURB:

Jon seems to have it all. He is a social butterfly that always has a place to go, things to do, and people to constantly surround him. The one thing he’s missing is someone to truly love. How can he love someone else when he doesn’t like the person staring back at him in the mirror?

He is that magical being that no one chooses to be, the third wheel. He has filled his life with happy couples, in various states of married bliss, that fills the hole in his heart with the acceptance and understanding he secretly craves.

Told by the people who know him best, The Year Of The Cock, is a year in the growth of their best friend, Jon. Can he learn to love, to open himself up to the messy truth of relationships? Will he finally become the person he has tried to repress his entire adult life or will the year-end with him stuck in the status quo of his gay bachelorhood?

REVIEW:

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with this book.

Jon is the bachelor friend that everyone fears will never grow up and settle down. He has had an on-and-off boyfriend of sorts for the last 3 years but never committed to Kerry. When Kerry up and dumps him he goes through a series of ups and downs as he discovers his true self throughout the next year.

I have to state, there were way too many friends/characters for me to keep track of being thrown at me. I finally had to make a chart of who they were, who they were paired with and why they were friends with Jon. It was very confusing at times, especially in the beginning, and I almost gave up on this book. Reading is suppose to be fun and this was hard to read. I finally started to know who the friends were by the end of the book but it was took late.

Jon really was an ass. He was an ass to his lovers. He was an ass to his friends at times. At some points, he didn’t even deserve them. But that was his problem…he never felt like he deserved anybody. I was thankful that he finally got the help he needed. Yes it was in an extremely unorthodox manner but that was kind of fitting for him I guess. The ones I truly felt for was Kerry and Bryan. They didn’t deserve to be treated the way they were. I am thankful they finally got smart.

I have to say, I knew some of these characters. I would have thought that the writer knew a few of my friends since he described several of them so perfectly.

This was a strange book and a bit hard to get into but it was finally pulled nicely together in the end. It just took too long, in my opinion, to get there.

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