Abandoned by Booklikes

Seriously, this freaking book. If I had posted any updates they would have just been gifs of a figure setting a book on fire again and again. I have no idea what the hell was going on half the time and oh yeah we get one gay character who is freaking crazy and another one that apparently is obtuse, but yes must do something about the friend who is in love with him though he's gay and she's a girl so why the fuck must he do something about it?

DEEP BREATH.

Sorry, this book is seriously making my head spin in a bad way. It was just not great or even good in my opinion.

"City Lights" follows Natalie who is trying to obtain her accountant degree while working at a coffee shop. She comes across a young man named Julian she finds herself intrigued by because Natalie has never met a young man who is attractive that actually talked to her. I don't know. She acts like she has never met human beings with real feelings before so I should not be surprised by how she acts. Natalie loves to read and is currently obsessed by all things written by her favorite reclusive author Rafael Melendez Mendón. Though she occasionally goes out with her only two friends in the world Liberty and Marshall. Oh God. I will get back to these two later.

Julian is hiding a secret and has an obsessive friend/business manager named David who makes Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction seem reasonable.

There seems to be something else going on with David hiding a secret from Julian that will make you roll your eyes, but not as much as David obsessing about Julian and being jealous of a toothbrush and washcloth that touched David. We do get one scene where David writhes around moaning with a used towel between his legs and at that point I contemplated taking up smoking again. I damn well went and find some gin and made myself a gin and tonic though.

So if you want to read a book about Natalie obsessing about Julian for about 25 percent of the book come on down and pick this up. I just laughed out loud (not in a good way) when Juilian reveals that he is in love with Natalie. These two have never spoken more than a few words to each other beyond the one time where Natalie reveals her favorite author that she is obsessed with is named Rafael Melendez Mendón. Jullian reacts strangely to this news, and if you have never read a book before maybe you are going to be surprised by the reveal (which is revealed at around the 40 percent point). There is absolutely no chemistry between these two at all though we do get a lot of love scenes.

The characters of Liberty and Marshall are there to be the Greek chorus of why Natalie is pathetic and needs to get a life through the whole book. At one point I wondered why the hell she was even friends with them since they both pretty much sucked. And I hated the whole storyline with Liberty being in love with Marshall (he's gay by the way) and her obsessing about him and not dating other people because I guess love is enough to turn people from being gay into straight? I don't know. I think at that point I had gin and tonic number two, was laying out by the pool trying to ignore my sister's aunt while she tried to explain to me why she didn't think Donald Trump was racist.

All in all the writing was repetitive and the flow was a joke. If you want to read about Julian calling Natalie love, his love, and how his life is nothing without her, well read on. The flow was all over the place. We would be in a scene and all of a sudden many months would pass in a couple of paragraphs here and there, and besides people saying things like "Happy Valentine's Day" to each other you wouldn't really know what month or day it was supposed to be.

The ending was a wrap up of some atrocious story-telling.