Reviewed by True
TITLE: Don’t Point at the Moon: An LGBTQIA Multicultural Romance
AUTHOR: Brian Lancaster
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 273 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 20, 2024
BLURB:
Mitchell Baxter considers Hong Kong his home and his castle. Tommy Chow has the heart of a fortress. But even the mightiest strongholds have their weak spots.
Escaping painful memories of England, Mitchell Baxter has worked hard to build a life in Hong Kong. His sister thinks he might as well be living on the moon. With a landlady he has never met who sends him cards with auspicious Chinese proverbs, a wheelchair-bound friend who doles out savage advice and a demanding boss who thinks nothing of calling him into work on Sundays, he has grown to love his solitary existence. But change is constant in The City That Never Sleeps, and in the same week Mitchell’s sister persuades him to let the nephew he barely knows come to stay, he learns about his employer’s plans to shut down all Hong Kong operations.
Tommy Chow is a native Hongkonger living a carefree existence. As a handsome and athletic twenty-nine-year-old sports teacher, he is rarely without a bedmate. He has the perfect life of a single gay man. If only he could shut out the voice in his head telling him something’s missing.
When Mitchell ruins Tommy’s evening with a good deed, Tommy gives him a roasting, after which neither hopes to see the other again. But Hong Kong is like a village and the two keep running into each other. Forming a truce, Tommy provides suggestions to keep Mitchell’s nephew occupied while Mitchell agrees to help Tommy win over the best man at his sister’s upcoming wedding.
And sometimes a nudge in the right direction is all that’s required.
REVIEW:
Things are changing in Mitchell’s life. He’s thirty-eight, lived and worked in Hong Kong for many years already.
He just heard there are plans to close down their office in Hong Kong, then his sister called and thinks it’s a grand idea to send him her son Zane for a month. And last but not least there’s Tommy Chow, the twenty-nine-year-old, beautiful bachelor playboy who bedded every male around, except Mitchell.
Tommy is furious at Mitchell, who cockblocked him having a great night with some guys.
Mitchell is determined to avoid Tommy, but it’s hard, with a small community, and mutual friends.
They keep running into each other.
It seems Tommy is the person Mitchell needs to bring his nephew Zane into the theatre scene.
Tommy on his turn, asks Michell to be his fake plus one for his sister’s wedding. He wants to win over the best man he got the hots for. Mitchell is reluctant but agrees.
Two men, quite opposites, one acquiesces himself not finding his other half and is totally fine with it, and one who horrors about having sex with the same person, or waking up to the same face every morning. Yup, nice couple. While Mitchell felt a tiny, negligible attraction towards Tommy because the man is dang beautiful, he knows Tommy doesn’t find him attractive, more the opposite, the man said it himself, and even worse things.
We can witness their friendship blooming, and even into more, it was fun, wonderful, and emotional.
We also meet a lot of secondary characters, most of them are interesting and fun, and some I wanted to smack in the face.
First I was dazzled by all the characters and names because dealing with more than a few characters is not my strongest skill, my notes with names and connections got bigger and bigger. But I understood fast enough it wasn’t as complicated as I expected.
The banters, gossip, and comments flying around were fantastic.
The author has an engaging writing style and created here an interesting and intriguing story.
The Hong Kong setting and everything involved was amazingly interesting.
Mitchell and Tommy, separately and combined were just fabulous.
This should be a movie, period!!
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