strictly literary: mr. nice guy by jennifer miller and jason feifer

the thing is, from the description i was hesitant. but part of me wondered, how could this premise actually work? how could this get through editorial and marketing and sales at a publisher and have no one say, maybe now isn't the right time to publish a book with such horrible sexual dynamics?

it doesn't matter how much consent is implied, these two characters essentially prostitute themselves for their jobs. you can't get beyond that. the sex becomes their job and neither of them really enjoys it. i mean, maybe they get their rocks off, but it's angry and resentful and not good.

i'm not sure why this was tagged as romance or as women's fiction, because this is not a romance, and the main character here is a man, which makes it not women's fiction. mr. nice guy is full of hateful characters doing hateful things, which is generally how i describe literary fiction so there's that. i think this book should come with a buyer beware, it's packaged as if it were one thing, but it isn't that. and if you get the ickiness from the description, don't be fooled into thinking it can't be that bad, it is that bad. i should have trusted my gut.

**mr. nice guy will publish on october 16, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/st. martin's press (st. martin's griffin) in exchange for my honest review.

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