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I had so much fun with this!
Even missing a lot of references (the book is set in 1979 or around that year), I was still laughing constantly. I loved the humor, which wasn’t really a surprise but it was still appreciated, given that I impulsively bought the first five books in the series just because the sample had me laughing out loud with a few sentences. It’s nice to know that I can keep impulsively buying books on sale from authors I’ve never read before and it doesn’t always have to end with regret and promises to myself to not do it again. Not that regretting it would’ve stopped me from doing it again, but still.

What do you say? No, I don’t have a problem. I can stop whenever I want.

Back to the book, I haven’t had this much fun with a mystery in a long time. ‘Fun�� may not be the more appropriate word, because the themes addressed in this book are sometimes heavy even if they were treated with a dryness and a matter-of-fact approach that prevented the story from turning too depressing, while not diminishing their significance and emotional impact, but the truth is I had fun, the mystery kept my interest in a way I have not experienced a lot lately with this genre.
Maybe because it’s been a long time since I read a mystery that wasn’t simply a sub-genre of m/m romance. I love m/m, but the mysteries are rarely this well-plotted, they rarely get this much attention to details. Understandably so, since a big part of any m/m romance, regardless of the sub-genre, is dedicated to, you know, the romance.

I’m glad to have found a viable alternative that makes my mystery-reader side happy without compromising my romance-reader side’s sanity. The last comment probably doesn’t make much sense to you, but I surprised myself by loving the ‘romance�� (quotation marks needed because this isn’t a romance, although the MC is in a relationship). On paper I should’ve hated it, Don and (view spoiler)[his wandering eye, and hands, and lips, and other wandering parts of his anatomy, not to mention the open relationship aspect of his relationship with Timmy, (hide spoiler)] are everything that would usually drive me up the wall or make me lose any interest whatsoever in a romance. And yet, one book in, and I’m already sold on Don and Timmy as a couple. I’m looking forward to all the other interesting mysteries and future developments in their relationship.