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Despite a bittersweet ending, this is a wonderful book by an author that treats his characters with humour and affection, and makes them totally engaging for the reader. I was sorry when the book ended.
Dennis Racine, a 31 y/o "companion" to a very rich Chicago theatrical impresario, Farleigh Nock finds himself in a big bind--his sugar daddy has asked him to "find a job".Not only is Dennis unemployable, but the aging boy toy discovers that Farleigh's new sexy "boy toy" is no other than their old pool boy, Jasper.Enlisting the help of his two best friends--the kept man of a gossip columnist, and the kept woman of a sadomasochist member of Congress for Illinois, Dennis hatches a plan for revenge,...
Another reviewer called this "book candy" and I agree. A light story filled with charm and funny moments in a warm-hearted vein. The ending was a little too tidy and I didn't enjoy the trip to Greece as much as the author seems to have. The best part was Dennis working the copy shop, loved that.I found 16 errors in the new Kindle version, which I thought to be a few too many.
Kept Boy is a light and easy read. Totally unbelievable but fun.
This was fun to read but the character development is all over the place and the ending just suuuuucks
You can't go wrong with a Robert Rodi title and this book is no exception. You don't have to be gay to enjoy his work, be open minded like me and you will enjoy this novel.
The writing style is breezy and funny, definitely entertaining. The dialogue is also great. This is the second time I have read this book. I wanted pure entertainment, nothing too demanding on the brain cells. This book fits the bill. At times you do wonder how the main character Dennis remembers how to roll out of bed in the morning. He can act insufferably stupid, but at least his character develops as the book moves to the conclusion.One thing I will admit, to me the secondary characters are
The first MM book I ever read, random chance from the library. I like it lots, and have re-read it several times. Because of it, I have also several times started other books by Rodi, but I generally find him too caustic and give up.
Silly to the point of absurdity. Poorly developed and unlikeable characters.
Empty calorie book candy. Deeeelightful.
Not the greatest book I've ever read. Mildly entertaining - no more than that.
Robert Rodi knows how to write distinct, memorable characters. Every single person who graces this story, from the main characters to one-scene minor players, felt like a living, breathing person with a defined personality. Even more impressively, Kept Boy truly felt like an LGBT novel; writing this same novel with straight people wouldn't make any sense at all. (view spoiler)[My biggest problem with the novel is that I didn't believe Dennis and Jasper suddenly falling in love. Rodi hints that o...
Unlikable and annoying characters, the story descends into laboured slapstick when it moves to Greece, Robert Rodi's gay 80s stereotypes used to be a guilty pleasure, maybe I've grown out of them...
This novel is about the joys and perils of sleeping for your supper. For a major part of the book, Dennis Racine comes off as being a selfish, self-involved, cavalier little toad. He’s handsome, yes, and can be fitfully caring. But his main focus is himself and it shows in passages when other people are talking about their problems.So it’s with no small amount of glee that you read chapters in which Dennis becomes increasingly terrified when he sees his meal ticket—the aging Farleigh Nock—in dan...
I so get what Rodi is trying to do, but at the time when these cheeky books were written there wasn't much discourse about the way in which a particular sect of gayboy lived. I mean there was no Will & Grace or any of that. I think without that context his books always came off a little harsh to me, but now they just seem dated and cliched.
Rating: 3.25* of fiveSnarktastic.Kept Boy Toy of rich old queen is threatened with replacement by the sexy young pool boy. The old queen loves kept boy toy, though, and through a series of silly misadventures, ends up throwing boy toy at pool boy a little too often, and they fall in love with each other.Rich old queen takes them all on vacation after a particularly silly piece of bad luck, finds them shagging each other rotten, has A Moment with them telling each how very much old queen loved hi...
