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A review by dinohakari
Kismet Cafe by Avery Tu
4.0
I really liked this story, but I would love it and give it five stars if some errors could be fix.
One of our protagonists needs to hide for a while after allegedly cheating on his boyfriend, and due to strong public opinion, his job is in jeopardy, (although nowadays and in my opinion, a cheating scandal is not so traumatic that you have to flee the spotlight and I certainly doubt it's so bad that you lose your job on a TV series, I do understand the need to hide and wait out the storm).
Our other protagonist is heavily in debt and doesn't know how to solve it, until Greyson stays in the apartment that Yu Jin shares with Eloise, Grey's best friend, and he starts helping him by paying a rent and working at the cafe.
So far so good. Then there are some things that are confusing to me, and although I attribute it to a lack of editing, or bad editing, I wish the author could fix it. Please keep in mind that there may be SPOILERS in this part.
An example of this is: In the scene where the alleged deception occurs, Gray says that while already quite drunk, he started to make out with the first man who approached him in the bar and then they decided to go together to have sex but ended up vomiting in the car of the stranger (Grey doesn't even remember his name) and he decided going home alone without anything else happening. But later and talking to his manager, he asks about Locke, an actor he knows, with whom he was in that bar drinking and lamenting between the two of them. They ended up so drunk that Grey called his manager to find them and take them each to their houses. And that's where they took the photograph that compromises him. So which of these two scenes is what happened?
Another thing that was not clear to me is Yu Jin's sexuality. Is it bi? Gay? Pan? And not that I care about the label, he can be whatever he wants. What I mean is that in some scenes he refers to an ex-girlfriend who cheated on him and that is why he dislikes Grey, but in others, perhaps due to typos, it seems that he refers to a "he".
Well, all that said, it's a good book, with good characters, good pacing, a good twist almost at the end (when Grey's ex-boyfriend shows up and everything becomes clear), and a good ending.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily wrote a review
One of our protagonists needs to hide for a while after allegedly cheating on his boyfriend, and due to strong public opinion, his job is in jeopardy, (although nowadays and in my opinion, a cheating scandal is not so traumatic that you have to flee the spotlight and I certainly doubt it's so bad that you lose your job on a TV series, I do understand the need to hide and wait out the storm).
Our other protagonist is heavily in debt and doesn't know how to solve it, until Greyson stays in the apartment that Yu Jin shares with Eloise, Grey's best friend, and he starts helping him by paying a rent and working at the cafe.
So far so good. Then there are some things that are confusing to me, and although I attribute it to a lack of editing, or bad editing, I wish the author could fix it. Please keep in mind that there may be SPOILERS in this part.
An example of this is: In the scene where the alleged deception occurs, Gray says that while already quite drunk, he started to make out with the first man who approached him in the bar and then they decided to go together to have sex but ended up vomiting in the car of the stranger (Grey doesn't even remember his name) and he decided going home alone without anything else happening. But later and talking to his manager, he asks about Locke, an actor he knows, with whom he was in that bar drinking and lamenting between the two of them. They ended up so drunk that Grey called his manager to find them and take them each to their houses. And that's where they took the photograph that compromises him. So which of these two scenes is what happened?
Another thing that was not clear to me is Yu Jin's sexuality. Is it bi? Gay? Pan? And not that I care about the label, he can be whatever he wants. What I mean is that in some scenes he refers to an ex-girlfriend who cheated on him and that is why he dislikes Grey, but in others, perhaps due to typos, it seems that he refers to a "he".
Well, all that said, it's a good book, with good characters, good pacing, a good twist almost at the end (when Grey's ex-boyfriend shows up and everything becomes clear), and a good ending.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily wrote a review