Hai fellow book lovers,
Today I will be reviewing the novel, One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva, which was something that was rec'd by Amazon after I finished reading both Aristotle and Dante (check out the review to that here) and Simon Vs The homo sapiens agenda (check out the review to that here).
So let's get straight to the reviewing!
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Genre:Contemporary
Book: One Man Guy
Author: Michael Barakiva
Release date: 27th May 2014
Publisher: Square Fish
Source: Amazon
Synopsis:
Alek Khederian should have guessed something was wrong when his parents took him to a restaurant. Everyone knows that Armenians never eat out. Why bother, when their home cooking is far superior to anything "these Americans" could come up with? Between bouts of interrogating the waitress and criticizing the menu, Alek's parents announce that he'll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades. Alek is sure this experience will be the perfect hellish end to his hellish freshmen year of high school. He never could've predicted that he'd meet someone like Ethan.
Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. When Ethan gets Alek to cut school and go to a Rufus Wainwright concert in New York City's Central Park, Alek embarks on his first adventure outside the confines of his suburban New Jersey existence. He can't believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriend he's barely ever had a girlfriend but maybe it's time to think again.
Michael Barakiva's "One Man Guy" is a romantic, moving, laugh-out-loud-funny story about what happens when one person cracks open your world and helps you see everything and, most of all, yourself--like you never have before."
Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. When Ethan gets Alek to cut school and go to a Rufus Wainwright concert in New York City's Central Park, Alek embarks on his first adventure outside the confines of his suburban New Jersey existence. He can't believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriend he's barely ever had a girlfriend but maybe it's time to think again.
Michael Barakiva's "One Man Guy" is a romantic, moving, laugh-out-loud-funny story about what happens when one person cracks open your world and helps you see everything and, most of all, yourself--like you never have before."
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What I liked about it? At times their friendship and eventual relationship was cute, and the story line at times funny.
What I didn't like about it? Almost every aspect of this novel, if i'm being honest. It wasn't well written, and the main character Alek, who was 14 might I add, began experiencing sexual things with a 17 year old guy which didn't seem at all realistic, especially with the way Alek is presented at the start of the novel. I think a lot of the ideas in the story were not executed well enough....the story was just not for me.
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This book is definitely one of the worst I have read this year, and I wouldn't recommended it to anyone. Therefore I gave it a rating of....
2 stars out of 5
Stay tuned for more reviews!
(Disclaimer: The images used in this post are not mine)
Yours Faithfully,
~ Literature and Tea
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