Counter Culture
by
J.L. Merrow
344 pages
Published
November 4th 2019
by Riptide Publishing
ISBN13: 9781626499218
Edition Language: English
BLURB: Robin Christopher,
beleaguered retail worker, isn’t having an easy November. His boss is
raising stress levels planning a Black Friday to end all Black Fridays,
his family doesn’t understand him, and his best friend thinks his new
crush is a hallucination brought on by watching too many episodes of
Doctor Who.
Archie Levine dresses in Victorian style and divides
his time between caring for his young son and creating weird and wacky
steampunk gadgets from bits of old junk—when he’s not looking after his
mum and trying to keep on good terms with his ex. The last thing he’s
got time for is a relationship, but the flustered young man he met while
disembowelling a fridge is proving very tempting.When his mum’s
social conscience is roused by a local store with a cavalier attitude
to the homeless, former rough sleeper Archie shares her anger. Little
does he know that Robin works for that same store.
My rating: 3.8 stars
Robin and Archie meet by chance in the street, while one came back from work worried about Black Friday, and the other determined to crumble an old refrigerator in search of steampunk pieces.
It is a romantic comedy with a social message could be said, against prejudices and preconceived ideas. The protagonists are from a very different environment, but they get to connect and discover that their interests are not so diverse after all. It had the grace to make me laugh a couple of times and that always raises points in my case.
---...that was the perfect moment for Archie to walk in, debonair as always—for about a nanosecond. Then his eyes (which, even in his mortified state, Robin noticed were the same rich shade of brown as his mum’s) widened comically as they took in Robin sitting down with his mum like the stalker who came to tea.
There was only one thing, Robin thought in a detached way, that could possibly make this more embarrassing, and that was if he’d blurted out “You’re not married!” to the unwitting object of his affections.---
The best friend is rather annoying, and her comments are very unkind. In the other hand, Archie's mother is adorable and one senses what has happened to her. The great revelation of the end was seen for miles, so there are no big surprises.
Likewise, it is a light reading and I especially love the steampunk part because the art of that style has always caught my attention, and the fashion style excuse the splendid (although I confess that the novels don't)
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Robin y Archie se conocen por casualidad en la calle, mientras el primero se dirigia a su departamento preocupado por como organizar el Black Friday de su tienda, donde es vendedor de ropa de caballeros, y el segundo esta ocupado rebuscando en un viejo refrigerador una pieza de termostato que le sirva para el steampunk que ocupa casi todo su tiempo. Su tiempo esta ocupado cuidando su bebe cuando su ex va a trabajar y cuidando de su madre. Como trabaja en un museo puede vestir todo el tiempo como un personaje fuera de época (por eso Robin primero cree que alucina con Doctor Who jaja)
Esta es una comedia romántica con un mensaje social se podria decir,. Llama la atencion hacia los prejuicios y las ideas preconcebidas.
Robin, por su parte, lidia con unos padres que lo han menoscabado toda su vida, y no aceptan sus preferencias sexuales.
La mejor amiga de Robin, es bastante irritante y no me gustan su forma de tratar a Archie. En cambio, la madre de Archie es adorable y deja entrever que sufre de un transtorno sicologico.
La gran revelación del final no tiene nada de sorpresivo, y se veia por millas.
De todas maneras, es una lectura ligera y me hizo reir un par de veces. Además me gustana cada vez que hablaban de grupo steampunk, porque me gusta bastante el arte de ese estilo, (si bien las novelas de genero no me gustan).
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