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    Fugly

    By K.Z. Snow

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    About this ebook

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for three friends, they are about to learn just how true this is. Come along and watch as Todd, Fallon, and Jake learn the lesson of a lifetime!

    What happens to a young man's self-image, and his sex life, when he wakes up one morning to see his good looks significantly altered for the worse? Three twenty-something gay friends—an embalmer, a movement coach, and a literary agent—find out the answer when they hit on the wrong patron of a club one night.

    Todd, Fallon, and Jake, aka the Hunt Club, think they're pretty damned hot. As a result, their standards for worthwhile hook-ups are appallingly superficial. The men aren't total jerks; they just need an adjustment in perspective. And they get it, in spades, from a mysterious stranger who's sick of seeing his beautiful partner pawed by dawgs.

    There’s no medical explanation for the hideous rashes that erupt on the trio overnight. Doctors can’t even detect it, much less cure it. Still, the Hunt Club’s mirrors reflect ravaged faces, and the toned, handsome guys they normally pursue now shun them.

    As the vulnerability that’s always lurked beneath their vanity begins to surface, Todd, Fallon, and Jake begin to see themselves and potential partners in a new light. Little did they know that in the eyes of three ordinary, overlooked men on the sidelines of their lives, it's always been the heart that’s mattered far more than the hot.

    Content Notes: m/m, gay, contemporary, paranormal, explicit gay sex.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiquid Silver Books
    Release dateAug 9, 2010
    ISBN9781595787392
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    • 3/5
      An interesting tale. Three friends who only date the most beautiful of men and then dis all others are put under an ugly spell. 3.75 stars.
    • 4/5
      Fugly by KZ is a funny, complex, and unusual novella that draws you immediately into the weird plight of its appealing characters. It’s written in a tone of understated realism that contrasts well with the subtly supernatural aspects of the story, but its overall contemporary feel should definitely engage most readers, even those who normally avoid the supernatural. It contains all the strong points that characterize this author’s fiction, such as a strong sense of humor, flawless writing, vivid and precise details of place, pitch perfect dialog, quirky character traits, and a sense of morality and compassion. At the same time, it takes risks with alternating first-person and third-person viewpoints, presenting a huge cast of characters, and mingling aspects of fantasy and realism. It’s proof of the author’s skill and experience that the result is so accessible and fun to read.

      The story opens at a crowded nightclub in the viewpoint of David, who is an ordinary-looking guy allowed to hang around with three gorgeous male friends. As David watches, the three of them flirt with a beautiful stranger, which annoys the man’s partner. The partner makes some cryptic, sinister remarks that David overhears. A month later, the three conceited hotties each come down with a horrible skin rash that only they, and those men whom they want to impress, can see. Desperate from sexual deprivation, they consult their doctors to no avail. Only David has the perspective to piece together the possibility that they might have been cursed by an angry wizard. None of the three stricken men believe him. When we readers are in their viewpoints, we experience their shifting states of mind through shame, self-pity, resignation, and finally an understanding of their former shallowness as they come to appreciate three average looking guys who have long admired them and who stand by them now.

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    • 5/5
      David Ocho is a journalist who’s a member of a circle of four friends. Todd, Fallon, and Jake refer to themselves as “The Hunt Club”. They are a hot-looking threesome who go clubbing together, and David is more-or-less their sidekick. Each of them is professionally successful in his own right. Todd’s a mortician, Jake’s a publicist, and Fallon is a movement coach. As is often the case with attractive, young gay men, they are very focused upon the superficial matters of life. They’re proud of their good looks, their status, and their material possessions.One evening at the local gay club, the Hunt Club sits around a table assessing the crowd. They casually make snide comments about some of the less-than-desirable clientele that surround them. Ridicule and scorn sarcastically flow from their mouths as they berate and degrade those present who do not meet up to their high standards of physical perfection. David is with the group that evening, and he’s embarrassed by their shallowness and their cruelty. When the threesome spots an attractive newbie and swarms him in a contest to see which of the three will score first, David backs off, embarrassed.This is when Jackson Spey makes his appearance. To David he appears sedate, and David’s drawn to him. As he approaches this handsome stranger at the bar, Jackson begins to chat with him, acknowledging that he’d overheard part of the conversation with David’s three friends. He was unimpressed, and makes no bones about the fact that he finds their behavior reprehensible. David apologizes, but suddenly realizes his apologies are meaningless—too little, too late. The hot looking guy that The Hunt Club has encroached upon proves to be Jackson’s husband, and when Jackson notices one of them groping his man’s ass, Jackson’s pissed.The events that follow over the course of the next few weeks are very puzzling to the three attractive Hunt Club members. Astonishingly they each develop a horrific skin condition on their faces. The odd thing about the condition, though, is that only they can see it. When they go to the doctor, it is undetectable. Medical professionals consider them delusional and refer them to psychiatric counseling. They begin to feel demoralized and start to lose their confidence. To their horror, they each discover that when they notice another guy and try to hit on him, this skin condition also becomes noticeable to the object of their desire. Their prospective dates quickly shrink away from them in horror, appalled by the bright-red, scaly dermatitis. It is during this period of time, while this threesome struggles with the reality that they are being judged solely upon their looks, that they start to look inward. They begin to examine their own perceptions of beauty. They start to understand that true love is not vain and shallow, and physical beauty really is only skin deep.As I began to read this short, fifty-nine page story, the very first thing I noticed was the amazingly intelligent vocabulary. In fact, initially I was a bit taken aback because I had to stop and look up a few of the author’s adjectives in a dictionary. Normally I would find this rather annoying and pretentious on the part of the author, but the narrative was so incredibly well-written, that it didn’t seem pretentious or inappropriately phrased in the least. In fact, the prose was so eloquent, that the writing itself nearly brought tears to my eyes.Not only was the writing superb, but the plot was presented very succinctly, and it was edited very tightly. Two of the seven chapters were presented in the second-person narrative, written in the voice of David, one of the stories secondary characters. I was so impressed by the uniqueness of this presentation, that I actually went back and re-read the entire story when I was finished. It was an absolutely masterful technique which offered a perspective which would not have been possible solely within the third person point-of-view. When a story contains multiple central characters such as this one, it often becomes confusing. There is too much to remember, and I find myself trying to mentally categorize the details of each character, usually at least somewhat unsuccessfully. Such was not the case with this brilliant page-turner. I fell in love with every one of the guys, and I got to know each of their hearts in such a meaningful way that they seemed to jump out of the pages and become utterly real to me.My favorite scene in the story is when Todd sits down on the floor with his friend Gabrielle at the funeral parlor. Todd is the mortician, and Gabe is his friend who works as a cosmetician, preparing cadavers for their final showings. Gabe is bereft with grief upon discovering that a former lover is dead, and Todd embraces him. They listen to a rendition of Linda Ronstadt’s Skylark on Gabe’s i-pod as they cling to one another. This scene was so devastatingly beautiful that it nearly tore my heart from my chest! Honestly, this book is one of the absolute best stories I have ever encountered in my lifetime. If I were wealthy I’d buy up several thousand copies and pass them out at gay nightclubs throughout the country. The message is so vital, and although it is not a theme that has not previously been touched upon in literature, I’ve never before seen it delivered so magnificently—in such a moving and beautiful way!I guess one could say that the story is a combination of Dorian Grey and Sleeping Beauty. It is fantastic and magickal. It is written beautifully and edited flawlessly. It is a book I’m sure to read several dozen times in my lifetime, and one I will encourage anyone and everyone I know to do the same. I do not know K.Z. Snow from Adam, but if all of her writing is this powerful, henceforth I’m going to be her biggest fan.