He lost his inspiration but found his muse in the Caribbean in the arms of a woman.
It’s a slow death for a writer when the only key getting used on his keyboard is “Delete”. His writer’s block is firmly in place like a wall. All there is to do is bang his head against it.
What to do? A change of scenery might help – say a week in the tropics. If nothing else, it will warm his idle fingers and ease his worried mind. A getaway for the mind and soul.
Reservations made, Eugene flies to Aruba in search of answers to his problems. What he finds is more than a couple of fruit drinks with umbrellas in them. On the white sandy beaches, wrapped in almost nothing but a tan is someone who sparks his imagination and ignites his creative flow. He finds his Muse!
Carpenter has some great one-liners and fun, could happen dialogue. Love the plot and the characters are good but the whole story didn’t mesh together as well as it could have. The style is choppy, POV switches in odd places and the story slow to start. And it can get very repetitive and could use some tightening up. There are quite a few places he says the same thing over and over when you get the point the in the first sentence.
But the writing it very amusing (pun intended) and the read is worth it for the one liners alone, of course I am a sarcastic lil bitch so you know what sandbox my idea of humor plays in. And you can tell this is written by a man, a man who wants you to know the story is by a man. At least it seems that way… It almost goes too far trying to make the point that romance novels tend to write men more flowery than they are by making Eugene a ‘real’ man.
Nice idea but really are romance hero’s suppose to be real men? What do you guys think? And yes, romance novels must have a happy ever after! I did like how the story ends, very creative and ‘keeps with the rules’ while Eugene breaks ’em. But I wouldn’t haven’t read ‘Eugene’s book *g*. Jane, I would love your take on this story if you get a chance to read it!
I would rate it a D but would rec it for the funny. Well that and the elevator sex. Love to hear from other readers… did you like it? Do you agree? Disagree? Have other rec’s from this author?
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