I have read Bridges as well (along with almost all of Kyell Gold's books) and i too was a bit dissapointed by this book. My biggest issue with it, was in the first part of the book Hayward spends all this time trying to create this relationship with the guy he just met and his old friend ( it has been ages since i read this select title) and then in the second part of the book, it basically drops that whole part of the story. I think it mentions them once just to say they were doing "okay" but the story never goes back to them otherwise.

heh... my disappointment was actually a bit facetious. There were no actual bridges highlighted in the book! FOR SHAME! But then, he had hotter bridges in there anyway.

I think why you might have been a bit let down by the relationship at the beginning because it was gone over three times, but really the book wasn't about that relationship so much as what Heyward does and his methods for essentially hooking up other people. After making sure that the relationship was a success, it doesn't really need to be brought back to, and the story can follow Heyward.

I read this to review for the Book Club but Skip never got around to it, so I never got to voice my opinions. It seems like a rather standard relationship story and that honestly just doesn't intrigue me. I found the convention of repeating the first sex scene through three POVs to be redundant and not very illuminating in regards to shedding radical new perspectives on similar circumstances. All the dudes are sluts. They had slutty sex. Rad. It's well written but is geared to appeal to the broadest audience, I feel, and that leaves it just a little bit featureless in some respects.

I don't think the perspectives were radical, but they were different enough to be entertaining for me. But I really think the story picked up after the threesome aspect, when you delved more into the mystery of Heyward.

yes, the illustrations were a bit underwhelming. i've seen keovi do much better stuff, so maybe she was rushed?

i felt Bridges was two short stories pretending to be one story. there's a bonus chapter (in the ebook, and here on FA), which, if you read it as the fourth chapter, sort of both makes it more of a novel and makes it sprawl in different directions even more. i dunno.

Mm.. I'm not so sure about that, really. Everything was connected by the central character, though there is a definite line between the first three chapters and the final two.