Having finished slutting around all summer Andrew deals with his last month in Edinburgh before heading off to university (at last). Will Cambridge live up to his expectations? And will he cope without his network of friends?
Size: 498 KB (96,658 words)
Genre: Coming of Age
Sex Contents: Some Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, Teenagers, Consensual, Romantic, Heterosexual, Fiction, Rags To Riches, Light Bond, Indian Female, Anal Sex, Facial, Oral Sex, Safe Sex
Review by Quasirandom [other reviews by Quasirandom]
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I do like me a good, long coming-of-age story, about a young person coming into their own as a mature grownup. And this novel in many installments is indeed long, has definitely been good so far, and is very much about coming of age.
I’m still bounding along, entertained by Andrew’s floundering—more women need to thwap him, it takes a lot for him to get the message. I also love his biting British wit—the narrator has had it all along, but Andrew had to grow into it, and in this installment it’s fully flourishing.
However, this installment was frustrating in two ways. The first is the pacing. The first third is slow—it takes several chapters to get out of Edinburgh and on to Cambridge, with more repetition than usual. That the first few days at university again take several chapters is necessary, it’s setting the groundwork for a lot to come, but again there was a lot of repetition, and not because everyone’s introducing themselves multiple times. This part would read a lot better if what came before had been compressed.
More frustrating, though, was that the installment (which calls itself a book) doesn’t finish so much as stop suddenly—even though there’s a scene early in the next book which, if stopped at the right point, would make a banger of an ending (and the rest of the scene make a great opening). Ah, well.
TL, DR: have the next book available when you read this.
Definitely still recommended, and not just for Andrew’s unique teasing/flirting technique, but not the best installment.
