Caught Running by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban

[lightreads]

Caught Running by Abigail Roux

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


M/M. This didn't work for me, but it was apparently good for the embryos.*

*A friend and I have an agreement to read M/M romance during IVF hell rather than do any of the other internet-recommended activities (praying, using cutesy sayings like "babydust," weeping). So I read this for her, and so far, it was apparently successful. So there's that!

Aaaanyway. This is otherwise bland M/M about the high school baseball coach and the science teacher hooking up. This has many of the faults of the genre, most notably bizarre and dizzying POV shifts so we can experience things from both sides, and trust me, they weren't that interesting the first time around. Also, the only role for women in this book is to throw themselves in exaggerated and creepy fashion at the dudes. What is that? I see it all the time in M/M, but can't put my finger on what it is supposed to be doing.

Anyway, there's a nice lack of stupid external impediments (oh noes, we can't be together because your twin brother's ex fiancé's cousin kidnapped my niece and blackmailed us!) but when you strip out all that nonsense, you do actually have to replace it with internal conflict. And, well . . . nope.

Good for the embryos, though.




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Comments

[buymeaclue]

"Babydust"?!?

Also, the only role for women in this book is to throw themselves in exaggerated and creepy fashion at the dudes. What is that? I see it all the time in M/M, but can't put my finger on what it is supposed to be doing.

THANK YOU I HAVE WONDERED THIS AS WELL

[cyprinella]

My initial thought is that it's supposed to be some sort of test/verification that they're really gay or really committed to the other guy. Sort of the seducer/manstealer roll from straight romance and UF but taken to extremes.

[lightreads]

Yes, but there's something particularly and weirdly . . . predatory about it, which is what I find weird. Like, they are supposed to be an actual threat. Not romantically or sexually, but in some other way. It's super weird.

[lightreads]

Babydust: a virtual substance which is metaphorically sprinkled over the subfertile person attempting to conceive, for luck. No actual babies are ground to powder in the making of this substance.

...Don't ask what they call "having sex." Just don't.

[buymeaclue]

1) Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

2) Okay, but now I must.

[lightreads]

Baby dancing. Which I find enraging on, like, six fronts simultaneously.

[buymeaclue]

Sigh. Just: sigh.