Karel's Reviews > Black Gold

Would have been a 3 if not for three things:

1. The characters (mostly Jett) rant instead of talk, sometimes going on a solo diatribe for two to three paragraphs while other people stand around waiting for them to finish. This just doesn't happen in real life, especially among angry people, and it sounds terribly unrealistic. It reads like a speech, and if people interrupt that, why wouldn't they interrupt this?

2. The relationship goes through a really ridiculous period for a contemporary, realistic setting. The both of them have been fapping to each other's MVs for a long time, Jett saves Billy for a bit and then suddenly they're going at it like bunnies... And one of them is supposed to be straight. It feels as if the author isn't quite sure how to go about making them fall in love, and just chose the simplest way to get it over with.

3. Cattiness of the characters. Jett likes the sound of his own voice too much, and Billy is like a mini-catty version of him. They, as I mentioned in (1), talk way too much, and not just talk either - they tend to act like bitchy little kitties in a catfight. All MROW MROW and SCRATCH SCRATCH. Which is fine because they're stars, but this, combined with the paragraph-long-speeches just makes it feel very tedious.


Overall, it's a pretty fluffy read, if you dig slightly cheesy and corny confessions of love like a mp3 on loop. Or if you just dig celebrities.