Phil

Just what I needed

Revisado: 12-30-24

This is my first romance novel, so it's also my first Dianna Roman title; I wasn't sure what to expect, but I loved it. I don't know how "deep" the author intended the emotional elements to be, but I personally felt the non-farcical relationship dynamics to ring true in a lot of ways, especially the ingrained homophobia and toxic masculinity that Cole spends so much of his story learning to confront. Considering how deftly she weaves the comedic elements with the heavy moments, I suspect this is all extremely intentional and I look forward to listening to more of her books.

There are a few little flaws in the writing and performance, but most of them blend right in with the characters' communication difficulties and in my opinion preserve the overall feeling of spontaneity that I think helps keep the work from taking itself too seriously overall.

Five stars. Definitely recommend.

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All filler

Revisado: 12-29-24

Like most instructional and self help books in the 21st century, this one makes excessive use of repetitive padding. Worse, the author repeatedly stoops to berating the audience for our supposed internalized homophobia and self destructive tendencies. If you think the only reason anyone would buy a book entitled "how to bottom like a porn star" is that we're ashamed of wanting to more fully experience physical intimacy with other men, you have NO business writing such a book, credentials be damned. I wish I could get a refund.

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Exquisitely narrated. Not a great text.

Revisado: 05-26-20

Most of book seems to be common sense, and much of what isn't is so overgeneralized as to be wrong. A great example of this pattern is in the DRY topic, where a function implementing an externally derived policy is said not to require comments at all; in the real world, this function should absolutely be annotated with its "source of truth" or other motivating reference so that future programmers, auditors, etc. can verify whether what it does is what it's *supposed* to do, and not just that what it actually does is what it actually does. Sure, this information might be in the revision control system or other external system, but at the very least this expectation warrants explicit mention here. The book seems to be riddled with such cases where the examples are insufficient to support the dogma. On the bright side, Anna Katarina's performance is absolutely impeccable: precise, measured, and easy to follow with no distracting idiosyncrasies.

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