{"id":108,"date":"2011-10-01T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/01\/book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:41","slug":"book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressing Up, by Todd Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Dressing Up<br \/>\nAuthor: Todd Young (I keep wanting to call him &#8220;Adam Young&#8221;)<br \/>\nGenre: m\/m romance\/light erotica<br \/>\nSummary: Skipper has just arrived at college on a football scholarship. The year kicks off with a costume party. Skipper ends up going as Tarzan, in an all too brief costume. At the party he meets Lake, but can Lake and Skipper ever be more than friends?<br \/>\nMy Rating: 3 (I liked it. Not my favorite, but I liked it.)<\/p>\n<p>My Review: At first I wasn&#8217;t really sure if this book was my thing. Skipper seemed pretty dumb and I spent most of the book feeling sorry for him and how nearly everyone around him took advantage of him in some way.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I have to say that this was an entertaining read. I mostly focus on sci-fi and fantasy, so this was a little outside of my purview, but I did end up liking Skipper. I&#8217;m not sure whether I really liked Lake though. And there&#8217;s about a dozen other people whose asses I would happily kick, but I&#8217;m just not as forgiving as Skipper seems to be.<\/p>\n<p>This is a book about a young man going to college and being invited to a costume party. The lady at the costume shop is kind of a jerk and he ends up in a Tarzan costume that doesn&#8217;t really cover a whole lot. This leads to a bit of humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quick read and fairly entertaining. There are some points where you might want to slap Skipper for being that gullible, but that&#8217;s the whole point of the story. He&#8217;s not the smartest guy around and everyone knows it, including himself. Because of this, he is taken advantage of and most of the time doesn&#8217;t even realize that that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening. But once he does realize it&#8230; Skipper has a bit of a temper. Slow to get going, but scary because he&#8217;s such a big guy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the things that happened were VERY contrived, but that&#8217;s what fiction is all about. This is a lazy day read, since I finished it in less than 1 1\/2 hours. There&#8217;s not a whole lot of thinking involved and it&#8217;s not exactly going to change your personal world, but it is entertaining, and in that end, that&#8217;s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Dressing Up Author: Todd Young (I keep wanting to call him &#8220;Adam Young&#8221;) Genre: m\/m romance\/light erotica Summary: Skipper has just arrived at college on a football scholarship. The year kicks off with a costume party. Skipper ends up going as Tarzan, in an all too brief costume. At the party he meets Lake,&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young\/\" title=\"Dressing Up, by Todd Young\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dressing Up, by Todd Young<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93,59],"tags":[177,495],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-book-reviews","category-reviews","tag-book-review","tag-mm-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-white-dragon-manga-action-adventure\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"White Dragon [manga, action-adventure]","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"February 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"White Dragon Author: Wada Shinji Artist: Kinutani Yu Summary borrowed from OurManga: Pursued by the mob, a young child seeks the protection of White Dragon, an assassin with the ability to morph into male or female, and kills by using... water... ------------------------------- The sad thing is that I never got\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":112,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/goodreads-harper-kingsley-the-united-statess-review-of-plastic-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":1},"title":"Plastic Jesus, by Poppy Z. 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