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Bezig met laden... A Little Side of Geek (Geek Life Book 1)door Marguerite Labbe
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Geek Life (1)
Geek Life: Book One When opposite worlds collide, it's anyone's game. Proud geek and comic book artist Morris Proctor wants nothing more than to live in semiseclusion with his devil cat and gamer friends. Despite what his well-meaning family thinks, he's perfectly content with his status quo. The last thing he needs is to date another nongeek hell-bent on changing him. Then he meets his adorkable new neighbor, Theo Boarman, who doesn't know Star Trek from Star Wars, but who tempts him like no other. Theo has spent the last year recovering from the loss of his parents and trying to play both roles for his teenage brother, while working to keep the family restaurant afloat. Dating is the last thing on the menu, especially with a man who thinks the height of dining is shoving a packaged meal into the microwave. But if Morris gives him one more shy smile or flaunts that kilt he wears so well, Theo will be forced to convince him that a hot summer fling is just the recipe to let off a little steam. When that fling gets serious fast, Morris has to decide if he's willing to give his heart to Theo on the chance that they're a perfect mix. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.75)
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This book is leisurely paced. Don’t expect a lot of action because it’s mostly about day-to-day activities such as going to a convention, conversations and work. I don’t usually mind casual stories because I like character development more than I like action. However, I have to be honest that for me, parts of this story dragged. Before I explain why I think this, I have to mention the layout of this book. It’s divided into what I would call Parts and Commercial Breaks. There are three main parts, which are more like short stories. The Parts are broken up by a commercial break. Each Break is from the pov of one of the side characters. The Breaks remind me of a short story blog post connected to the main story. Sort of like spin off stories. They’re not exactly full stories, but a short story written to let readers know what the characters have been up to once the main story is over. Therefore, the book’s layout is like Part One, Short Break One, Part Two, Short Break Two, Part Three.
I didn’t like the Breaks. The Breaks broke up the storyline and the main characters I was interested in. When the first Break happened, it completely and utterly threw me out of the story and annoyed me so much; I put the book down for a couple days. The shift to reading about Brenden, the convention organizer, didn’t do a thing for the plot. From the conversations the other characters had, and the monologue Morris had in Part One, I already knew how Brenden felt about his foster brother, Dakota. Adding Brenden’s chapter didn’t give me any more information. I didn’t feel any emotional connection with Brenden’s character, except for a lot of monologue about Dakota. Break Two with Felipe was the same deal, but not as annoying because, Felipe was more interesting, while Brenden was dull. Both characters would have benefited with their own separate stories because they were out of place in this one. It almost seems like the author inserted the characters as a preliminary for them to have their own books in the future. But, I’ve read series where the author just includes a bit about a future character and that works well enough for me. I would say that the Breaks, which were a full chapter each, were probably the worst part of this book.
I will get to the items I like, but I still want to talk about the pace. Part One was slow and more about things and descriptions. We’re introduced to the MCs a little, but Part One is heavy on descriptions of things and places and lots more description. The author is good at describing, but I felt it was too much and Part One could have been cut in half. Part Two is about Morris and Theo getting to know each other, and the trouble they had meshing their lives because of their careers. Part Three is about the MCs working through their troubles and families. I liked Part Three the best because there was more people interaction and it wasn’t just about things and places. I can’t remember what Part it was in, but Morris’ niece comes over to meet, Theo and Lincoln, Theo’s brother. Maybe it’s because I don’t like basketball, but I found the scene too long and I wanted to skim read. Another scene was Theo and his family haggling over who to hire at the restaurant. I felt that dragged on and it didn’t interest me. Again, I wanted to skip over that. My preference only, but I feel this book was too long, with excessive description and long scenes that could’ve been shorter.
Now on to the things I liked. The characters were great. From Morris, Theo and all the side characters, they are some of the best fleshed out and distinct personalities I’ve read. There’s also good character development. All that for me, is what made the story good. I did like the description of the cons, even though they were too long and I loved everything about the food, I mean I really liked the talk about all the food. The writing was good, but just too much description.
I’m waffling on how many stars to give A Little Side of Geek. The writing was good about the characters and description. But at the same time, there was just too much description and the story dragged at significant points. This book has good characters and growth, but I just wish there wasn’t so much other stuff happening in between which took focus away from the characters. I think I would have cared more about them if that were the case. I’m going to give this 3 Stars because the things that bothered me, outweighed the parts I liked.