Reviewed by True
TITLE: Taste: A novella inspired by the film ‘Call Me By Your Name’
SERIES: Donnie and JJ #1
AUTHOR: Christian Williams
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 104 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2020
BLURB:
JJ and Donnie are two lost souls from different worlds, brought together by a film that changes their lives.
18 year old JJ dreams of escaping from the North London tower block he shares with his emotionally absent mother and her abusive boyfriend. Donnie is a successful accountant in his mid-30s struggling to deal with the breakup of his marriage and his failing relationship with his 15 year old daughter. Both JJ and Donnie become entranced by the film ‘Call Me By Your Name’, a passionate love story featuring characters remarkably similar to themselves. Could they end up writing their own love story, or will their pasts and their futures end up tearing them apart?
This powerful novella explores the passions and pitfalls of love in the modern age, as the two main characters dreamily live out their erotic fantasies before having to decide whether their destinies lie together or apart.
REVIEW:
Donnie is 36 years, living apart from his wife, their marriage wasn’t working anymore.
Alone at home watching tv Donny runs into the movie Call Me By Your Name and he is enthralled and aroused by what he sees, he thought of himself as straight, but now…
At 18 years JJ is under the spell of the movie Call Me By Your Name. He wants to live his life like that movie.
Donnie contacts JJ on a forum about CMBYN and they start talking and talking.
JJ has a hard time at home where his mother’s recent boyfriend puts his hands on him without his consent.
Donnie offers JJ his spare bedroom and JJ accepts to come to Donnie, but not to his spare bedroom *wink wink*
It gets pretty awkward when two sides of Donnie’s lives collide.
A super sweet, short fling with a huge impact. A lot of fuss was going on actually. I would have loved some more telling about both guys here. It was a lot about other things, like family drama. To be honest, I scrolled here and there through the pages.
Overall a nicely written, bittersweet, story, captivating, interesting, not completely my thing, still, nice to read.
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