Status Updates From Encore (In Concert #1)

eric: "i was straight"

also eric: *proceeds to explain in detail how he has never felt any attraction to a woman before, has never enjoyed intimacy with a woman and has only ever felt turned on when he was fooling around with his ex-bestie*

I am hating every second of this I wish I could dnf books but this is making me crazy they're changing their goddamn minds every second and are failing at the most basic communication about their feelings and relationship

"would i just go back to being straight now" oh this man cannot be serious

oh i'm tired of them... the man went and told u he wasn't straight anymore he likes u / ur cock sm and ur going to be a little bitch and tell him he is straight anyway?? after sixty-nining him into one inch of his miserable life??? i hate them both so much, and I knew this is where I was headed the moment I saw their names was fucking eric and mike

"Fuck, Eric was straight" Eric just came in a dirty bathroom stall with a finger up his ass 5 minutes after seeing u again for the first time in 6 years this man is everything but straight and this book is testing my patience

i know it's a legit protection mechanism but how I hate the desperate "I'm straight I swear" lie they tell themselves to ignore the fact that they're very much not sigh it makes me sad

How do you not recognise your ex-neighbour slash best friend after only 6 years apart???????

These two just won't grow a pair and talk to each other! There's so much that needs to be cleared up and they won't tell each other how they really feel instead they're internally suffering, YET constantly screwing 🤯🤦

This is my limit. I am done. 🤦🏻

Okay, I’ve never liked characters so much and yet hated how their story was moving along. So formulaic and trite. Like, it’s so obvious by now that the plot could have been more simple, more organic, yet the author is applying the ol’ stall-to-death ploy where every time something that actually moves the plot forward is supposed to happen there will be a sudden interruption or diversion. I am officially in mourning.

I like the bar scene. Thank fuck there wasn’t more of Amy or even a peep of Nick.

Just realised if you hadn't read Prelude, you wouldn't know this Mike here is acting so out of character. Or maybe it would still be obvious. I mean, he pines after Eric for almost 7 years and then when he finally has him, he suddenly goes: OH WAIT, I FORGOT I HAD BETTER THINGS TO DO, DREAMS TO FULFIL, SO I'M GONNA DITCH YOU TO GO DO THOSE. LATER, BITCH. Because that makes perfect sense. Must the plot be so forced??

This was so perfect when it was just Mike and Eric. I'd rate the Prelude 5 stars hands down. But this had to have Amy in it. Also, it's weird that Mike is suddenly so unsure of himself. Like he's just making excuses to dally. (You know, just to prolong the plot??) If he was gonna dally, I wish the writer came up with a more in-character reason. Not the ever so lame I AM TOO BUSY TO HAVE ERIC RIGHT NOW. Really???

Amy is supposed to the hard-sell comic relief. But she’s all cardboard to me.

OK. I already hate Amy. I hate these overbearing, extremely presumptuous, and in-your-face female bestie types that are so controlling and suffocating. They think just because a guy is gay, they know better and should manipulate every aspect of their life. It almost feels like someone projecting and exercising the will on the characters. 🤮 I HOPE AMY DIES IN A DITCH SOMEWHERE.