I didn't know it was possible to want a character to get an
STD, but I did, oh I did. Gianni, a first person novella by Justin Luke
Zirilli, started off well enough. The main character, Gianni is at a photo
shoot, talking about his mottos and ex-boyfriend. At first, he comes off as an
arrogant individual with a shallow outlook on life. Not my favorite type of
person to read about, but I enjoy diversifying my reading habits. Progressing
further into the story, I started to wonder if the MC was a prepubescent girl instead
of a young adult who was an up in coming porn star and rent boy. I also began
to hate the character at this point.
It might be due to his ‘barely eighteen’ age that makes him
such a self-absorbed fool, but I don’t remember being that judging at that age.
Thirteen, absolutely.
From then on, most of the story is him trying to act like
nothing matters and it is all just a game. A game that pays well.
The only thing that is semi-redeeming about Gianni is that
as much as he denies it, he does want more out of life. If he didn’t, he
wouldn’t have been going on a date and hiding what he did for a living from him.
Gianni was a read. The MC was developed,
if a bit childish. One I am glad that I got for free. It gets three stars out
of five and a warning to all that would read it that the main character is self
absorbed and you might wish him dead.
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