It Had to Be You
by Timothy J. Beck
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Author: Timothy J. BeckEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN: 1575668904
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Kensington Books
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Summary: 2 Stars
This book was actually kind of boring. Nothing really happened throughout, not what I would call much of a novel. There's a lot of yada yada, but virtually no action.
Do you like romances? This is, I believe, a romance, but of a little bit different genre than the usual romance, since it deals with same-sex love.
Daniel Stephenson, the narrator of this dry saga, seems just like the author's alter ego. In that sense, it seems like an autobiography, and maybe it is.
Daniel moves from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and finds an extended family among the gay crowd of New York City. He finds a job as a female impersonator but loses it when the lady in question, Princess Diana Spencer, dies in a car accident (1997).
Daniel relocates to get a new lease on life in addition to his new property lease. He spots his dream man through a window across the way, and, guess what, Blaine is gay, too. And, Blaine has a good job, so he hires Daniel to be his assistant in a big advertising corporation.
This is the whole story, believe it or not. The big suspense is whether or not Blaine is going to discover that Daniel was once a female impersonator.
I read this book to try to understand homosexuality better. It didn't help a lot in that regard, but I am convinced now that these men really do fall in love with each other.
One thing about Timothy James Beck, he's definitely authentic. He had to live what Daniel lives through in this book, in order to write it. You may like it.
I found the book just really dull and had to speed read almost everything after the first half, when I realized nothing was going to happen.
Diximus.
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