Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: My Best Friends Guy
AUTHOR: Sabrina Meyer
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 168 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 3, 2021
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Life can be chaotic. And unpredictable.
Nothing could have prepared me to meet my childhood best friend as my ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Even if we fell out four months ago. Does he understand that my mother’s illness prevented me from seeing him? And that I slowly understand that my feelings for him are anything but friendly? So go ahead, let the games begin.
My Best Friends Guy is a feel-good book without drama and intrigue, but with humor and a guaranteed happy ending.
REVIEW:
Sean has broken up with his girlfriend Sarah, but they have remained friends. She shows up to his mother’s 60th birthday celebration week with his best friend as her new fake boyfriend. How does he know that? Because said boyfriend is actually his gay best friend from kindergarten, so he knows that he is not Sarah’s new BF. But he doesn’t know why she is doing this or why he would agree – and that takes some time to come out.
Sean’s mother is suffering from dementia so it’s really important that this week go well. He’s having a hard time getting Kane alone to ask why he’s pretending to be Sarah’s new boyfriend. Also, he’s figured out in the meantime that the one he truly love is Kane and that’s why his relationships have never worked out. It turns out he’s more attracted to men and specifically Kane. When he’d gone to visit Kane just before this birthday week celebration, he was set to tell him, but another guy, Pete, was there with him and Sean ends up really jealous.
In the meantime, the birthday celebrations are underway. Sean and Kane find time to set the record straight and Sean admits that his feelings for Kane have been there all along but he was too clueless to figure them out. But finally the lightbulb has gone off and he knows he is indeed in love with Kane. Kane is worried that once they are together physically that Sean will freak out because he’s never been with another guy before. This continue to be complicated by both Sean’s mother’s memory loss and their other BFF Anyta showing up – and she’s got a surprise of her own. Then there is the arrival of Pete – and things just get stranger and stranger. Luckily there are good explanations for everything and Kane and Sean truly do belong together, so everyone supports them despite some rocky moments. 🙂
Well this is awkward. I wanted to like this story. But the translation from German to English is SOOOO clunky and obvious and really not good 🙁 I remember going to Rome and seeing the “rules” for the National Monument and I thought, hmmmm, maybe they used Google Translate because it was not at all how an English speaker would communicate this. I felt that way on every single page of this book. And then weird verb tenses would appear. I mean I KNOW my German is terrible so I would never attempt to try to and translate anything. Translating literature is really an art form in itself. This one missed the mark by quite a bit. I felt like I was trying to decipher too many of the sentences. I think the story was a pretty decent one, but I just had to work too hard to figure things out. Too bad. The story itself would have been enjoyable otherwise and is really a rather sweet story of friends who figure out their relationship is much more and the supportive friends and family around them who are happy to see them end up together. If the translation were decent, I could have given this story four stars, but I was repeatedly thrown out of the story by the bumpy word choices and phrasing. It’s just too bad and if you’ve got the stamina to get through it, you might enjoy this rather sweet story.
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