Sweet story about how Adam Wilson finally gets his man. ( )

Adam is a gay country boy... I don't know but gay and country boy in the same sentence sounds strange, maybe since I'm used to read stories about young gay men who escape their little country town for the big city to finally be who they really want to be. Instead Adam went to discover the world and found that he prefers Eau Claire, Wisconsin. And why not? He has a thriving business in the high tech world he can lead by home, a old fashion farmhouse he restored all for his own, a supporting family who love him unconditionally (it seems that his mother only waited for him to come out so she could rightfully join the PFLAG association...). At this point Adam seems the perfect man and maybe he is single since he can't find another perfect man like him to much such perfection... but sincerely I think that Adam is a rather spoiled son. Thanks to his look and his fine mind, and a big dose of fortune, always went right in his life, he has never seriously fought for anything.

Lucky for him, his mother has a long sight, and convinces him to temporarily move to New York City... maybe in the Big Apple he will have more chance to meet new people, and maybe, his mother think, he will have more challenges to face than in small town Eau Claire, and the challenges will serve him to grew a bit. And instead, according to the rule of the six degrees of separation, Adam manages to rebuild the little circle he had in his small town even in New York. First he meets Blythe, a struggling young artist, then Sheila, the sister of one of his hometown friends, who is roommate with Blaine, another hometown boy moved to NYC. Blaine is boyfriend with Daniel, who went to high school together with Adam, and whom Adam pursued with stupid jock jokes when they were young. Daniel is also the ex boyfriend of Jeremy, a man Adam briefly met in a coffe shop and who is become his obsession. Adam will do anything to meet the man since he is finally fallen in love... but really, to my opinion, Adam is more in love with the idea to be in love than with Jeremy himself.

And my idea is confirmed by the fact that, for almost all the book, Jeremy is a distant figure, like a haunting ghost who appears and disappears; Adam has never really the chance to be with him, even if he manages to meet all the people around him and to frequent all the same places. And more he pursues his 'love' more people are telling him how awful and absolutely no boyfriend material Jeremy is. Strange to say, the only one who doesn't talk badly of him is his ex boyfriend Daniel, the man Jeremy cheated on.. (Daniel's story with Jeremy and then Blaine is told in It Had to Be You, I didn't know the two books were related, and I mistakenly bought the second book).

Anyway, while chasing his love dream, Adam has the chance to finally come out from his mother's egg nest: even if Adam came out to his parents when he was 18 years old, he for real never come out from their protective range. But Adam confirms his luck, and even in the big city, and alone from his family, he always manages to obtain what or who he wants.

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I loved this book, the characters, the story, the setting. I loved Adam, and Blythe, and Andy, and Daniel, and well...all of them. The story could have been 1,000 pages and I'd have been perfectly content peeking into the lives of all these people. ( )

Der Freundeskreis der bekannten Personen aus "It Had to be You" trifft wieder aufeinander, aber ein neuer Held tritt auf: wie immer handelt es sich um einen gut aussehenden Schwulen, wiederum aus Eau Claire, einem kleinen Ort in den USA. Obwohl alle wichtigsten Personen irgendwie ein bisschen wie Abziehbilder wirken: die spitzzüngige Tunte, der sportliche Bodybuilder, der strahlende Schauspieler, gelingt es Beck doch, nicht ins banal Oberflächliche abzurutschen. Die Probleme der Menschen sind nämlich echt und die Personen sind zudem liebenswert. Dadurch ist das Ganze so lesenswert und so schön. Wir schließen das Buch nach dem Lesen mit einem Lächeln und freuen uns auf "I'm Your Man". ( )