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S'està carregant… Unfreezingde Parker Avrile
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Can a younger man and his talented dog put a phobic screenwriter on the red arrivals carpet at the annual Academy Awards ceremony? Chance, the white-hot gay screenwriter of the moment, has received a VIP invitation to Hollywood's most coveted event. But he has a secret-- severe agoraphobia. Sometimes he can't even leave his building, much less fly to Los Angeles. Nolan is his last resort. With the help of his Jack Russell Terrier assistant, the 25-year-old engineer promises he can train Chance to operate a telepresence robot from Manhattan to walk the red carpet for him in Hollywood. The stunt will be great publicity for both men. The trouble is training Chance leads to touching Chance. Nolan knows the sophisticated older man is way out of his league. It's about show business, not monkey business. So how did they end up together at a rooftop party on New Year's Eve? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I’m kind of torn about this story. It has an interesting plot, and the author did a good job conveying Chance’s fear, his agoraphobia. I also like Nolan and the premise of him making robots that could be manipulated by dogs and humans to perform tasks. But there was something distant about the whole thing. Usually romance stories I’ve read I’ve felt closer to the characters. This story was like observing them interact from a distance or through a veil or mist. I never felt pulled deep into the plot like I wanted, not even after Chance and Nolan formally commit to each other. I would understand if the distant feel was from Chance’s pov, but not from Nolan’s pov because Nolan didn’t have a problem. This observer feeling lingered throughout the whole book.
Chance and Nolan were interesting characters, and the addition of the JRT helped explain more about the type of work Nolan did. I didn’t care for the final sex scene between the two men. The language used to describe appendages and the sex act itself, along with the endearments was frankly, off. It was like the scene was written by a completely different person. The language was purple prose and the characters from a harlequin romance. It had me shaking my head.
The epilogue, was also totally different from the rest of the story. We were watching TV rather than from Chance or Nolan’s pov and it was from a reporter’s pov. The author also continued to use the word “Blonde” when the reporter ‘Lily’ was talking. Lily clearly gave her name, why didn’t the author use her name as ‘Lily’ or 'Reporter', rather than some abstract word like ‘blonde’ which is just based on her looks? Also, Chance addresses her as ‘honey’ which I found lacking in respect. She has a name, he knows her name, but doesn’t call her that. Which makes me wonder why the author felt it necessary to dismiss a female with generic words instead of dignifying her with her own name. It’s like someone in a restaurant snapping their fingers at a waitress going, ‘Miss! Miss!’ So, the epilogue didn’t work for me at all.
Overall, the plot was a good idea and I liked the characters. But the writing style was distant so I couldn’t fall into the story or feel for the characters as much as I wanted. The epilogue didn’t work and should’ve been written in the same style as the rest of the story, especially since the author treated the reporter Lily in a rather odd disrespectful way. I therefore give, Unfreezing, 3 Stars.