Only Mostly Devastated

Only Mostly Devastated

2019 • 288 pages

Ratings50

Average rating3.9

15

This book got 1 star because of how it made me feel which is so damn frustrated. You soo can tell that this book is written by a white straight woman... The action of main character mostly - being weak minded and just simply blank...the only thing characteristic for him is that he likes music. Seriously I felt as if I read mediocre Wattpad novel in terms of characters development.
Apart from that there were these small things that indicated that author doesn't know the lgbtq community well, and what's it like to be a gay man. Like pushing main characters to give a closeted guy a chance. It's not easy to date someone who is not out, but a guy who pretend you don't exist and have no real prospects of coming out or changing his behavior soon and hangs out with homophobic guys is on an entirely different level. It's totally okay if someone doesn't want to date a closeted guy and yet author thinks they (closeted guys) should be given a chance because maybe they don't have it easy. Relationship it's not a thing you have to have to feel good, on the contrary you shouldn't be in a relationship just to feel good. If someone is this closeted and surrounded by homophobia by their choice they are not ready for a relationship. And NO ONE should be encouraged to be in a relationship with this kind of person. And that, besides main character persona, annoyed me the most.
I'm really disappointed by this book, I thought it would give me a good time but I wasn't even able to finish it as it just felt as a waste of time and nerves.