'The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unraveling threads. My opinion is that none, not even one of those possibly awe inspiring ingredients, managed to combine into making this book the great novel that it could have been.Īllow me if you will to demonstrate and start with the writing: The even more affirmative, even more powerful message that online friendship does infact exists and is able to sustain meaningful relationship independently of tangible relationships in very diverse settingĪll of the above in the trademark remarkable writing skills of one of the supposedly most acclaimed authors in the mm genre. The affirmative, powerful message that love is love is love and that gender binary is not the only way to go.

The possibility of using the gaming interaction to build action driven character agency while the 'main' story focuses on the MCs character development The ingredients of this ambitious project were:

In Looking For Group the author sets out to write a love letter - if you will - to the gaming community by creating characters who meet, interact and fall into friendship and in love because of it. Now it is possible that we expect too much at times from authors who have been consistently good, but the thing is some books I love, some I like some I don't and unfortunately this is one of those books that truly disappointed me. Let me start by saying this: Looking For Group had an enormous amount of potential, its scope as described by its author was rather ambitious and it could have been so so good. Now before you go for my throat I do have a very long list of reasons with examples of way I did not enjoy this book at all. I thoroughly disliked this book - I'd go as far as saying that this is without the shadow of a doubt the worst book I read this year. I have an opinion on a book I read and I will write about it. I almost didn't bother with it because honestly? I could do without the hassle but then I thought well, no. I must confess to a certain level of trepidation in sharing my thoughts on this book as it is undeniable that of late one has to contend with the fear of retribution, gaslighting and public shaming/hounding when expressing opinions outside of the adoring party line.

Looking for Group by Alexis Hall