When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.

I didn’t know much about this book other than it being sort of under the LGBT category which I avoid because the book I read in this category I ended up hating in a way. And this book isn’t anything different from the other books in the category which I hated.

The only good thing about this book is the writing style which was pretty gorgeous and I loved it a lot. It really made me think that the author of this book is a really good author solely based on the writing style.

To be very honest in this review, this book was very melodramatic, stereotypical, repetitive, dull, self-indulgent and very unbelievable. And because of this I DNF-ed this book after having read 310 pages of this book.

The beginning of this book was actually interesting because it states with 4 classmates form a small Massachusetts town moving to the big apple (New York City) but then within 2-3 chapters it fast forwards a few decades to when one of those classmates are is well in his 40s I believe and we follow him. Which I found very boring, uninteresting and annoying. Because it went very quickly from being an actually interesting book to being a very boring book.

The characters in the beginning was actually okay characters but when the fast forwards thing happened, the characters become like the watered down versions of themselves which really didn’t have anything in common with their younger selves.

I personally liked the characters at the beginning but after the fast forward I began to hate all those characters I liked at the beginning because they we’re vert melodramatic, stereotypical gay but most importantly very very annoying.

As I’ve said before I read some books in the LGBT category but this one is the most full of the work bull shit I’ve come across so far. Which really helped me to DNF this book so fast. 

And this book had everything which you put under it being Brutal, and of course I am talking about sexual abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, drug addiction, rape, self mutilation, suicide, horrific violence, abduction and amputation. So be warned about those things if you want to read this book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5