***WHY THE RE-READ***

Once upon a time I was a huge manga fan.

I quickly found Yaoi/Yuri because I'm a huge romance sucker. The thing with Yaoi/Yuri though is that most of the time it's straight up erotica with a little bit of almost no plot. Which was fine with me at the time. But after a while I wanted to read books without pictures.
So romance it was. I don't know when exactly but I discovered this sub-genre (can you really call it a sub-genre?).

Yaoi in word form. In English! At the time I bought every e-book there was from these kind of authors. SIDENOTE:Thank god I always was such a gadget whore and already had a e-Reader at the time ( oh Sony PRS-300 I still miss you...) or else I never could've read the PDF files. So old skool.

Enough reminiscing. Back to the now.

For some reason while I was scrolling through Goodreads I began thinking about a book cover. This cover had a very distinct art style and it was driving me mad that I couldn't remember the author and/or the title.
After getting sidetracked many many many times I've now started a new project: Re-reading books I once upon a time loved but didn't add to Goodreads in this genre. I don't know how I came to the conclusion this was a good idea but there you go. This is one of those books. I won't re-read everything by this author. Ain't nobody got time for that. So I made a selection from the most interesting sounding ones.

Dear Future-Me,

Write a goddamn review or else I will be pissed.

Love Past-Me

This is a very nice novella with a good push on the light and funny button. Soon after having a bad experience with best friend Kayden in the elevator, so bad to leave Avery traumatized and unable to take again one, Avery meets new neighbour Dylan. Actually more than a meeting it’s a clashing, Dylan stumbles over Avery breaking his ankle. The only right thing at this point is to take Avery to the ER and at the same time, trying to extract as much information as possible from the little man, who seems to have some trouble to form a coherent thought.

If the reader is thinking that Avery is shocked, by the bad experience and the accident, it will soon realize that it’s not, Avery is like that in his ordinary behaviour: while Dylan is asking him something, Avery is always thinking and planning something else in his mind and it’s too much concentrated on his goal to let his mind pays attention to the question on hand.

Dylan and Avery agree on one thing from moment one: there is no doubt that they have now a relationship, and a simple and ordinary thing like asking someone out or spending some time to know each other before embarking in a relationship, is not something that is worth to spend time on. Avery is coming out from a dry spell of more than 2 years and so, maybe, having the unexpected luck of an hunky neighbour who seems as taken as him, it’s not something that he will let it go.

There is no big drama on this story, even the little one, like a former twink boyfriend of Dylan and Avery’s phobia of elevators (better of one elevator in particular, his own), are dealt with a light and funny hand. Basically this is a comedy more than a romance, and its purpose is to bring a smile on your face, something that for me worked perfectly.

On a side note, I found really strange but interesting the writing style of the author, that was more like a brainstorming of Avery’s mind more than a linear development of a plot. Since we are basically inside Avery’s mind, Dylan’s character is maybe not so much development, but it’s all the same really good, I wouldn’t mind to read the story also from his point of view.

Side note: it's the first time that I find a character who does exactly my job, and the explanation he gave, even with the preface that it's not easy to explain, and even what he does more than his specifically skills, is exactly what I do.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0033780YU/?tag=elimyrevandra-20