Genre: Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay
Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
When a single kiss calls your sexuality into question, there’s only one sure path to a reliable answer: further research.
Patrick
I like to think I know myself outside and in. As a developmental psychologist, I’ve spent years exploring the true foundations of my identity. So, when losing a bet means kissing my best friend, Logan, I already know I’m going to hate every second of it. All the relevant questions regarding my sexuality were asked and answered years ago. The results were conclusive: despite the odd same-sex attraction, I dislike being touched by men.
That is, it seems, until Logan is the man doing the touching. The intense desire aroused by his kiss contradicts all my expectations and I have no idea how to integrate the new information. Thankfully, I do know exactly how to uncover the truth about myself—once and for all.
Logan
I’ve put a lot of effort into keeping Patrick out of my fantasies and in the friend-zone. Our recent liplock may have unleashed my feelings for him temporarily, but I’ll get them back on their platonic track in no time. Falling for a friend, especially a sexually ambivalent friend, is a one-way ticket to heartache.
But, when the unforeseen impact of our kiss inspires Patrick to conduct an experiment into the extent of his bisexuality, I can’t resist volunteering to help. If any man is going to join Patrick on his journey of self-discovery, it’s sure as hell going to be me.
The Experiment is a high-heat, low angst, full-length contemporary MM Romance from Australian author Rebecca Raine. It features friends to lovers, gay for you, and first time gay themes. There is no cheating, no cliffhanger and a HEA ending that is sure to make you swoon.
The Review
Patrick Seymour and Logan Delaney are friends but a bet would change everything. Losing a pool game to Logan, Patrick has to kiss a man. Since he was a teenager he has always gotten excited when he saw men together but convinced himself that seeing it and doing it were to different things. They are at a gay bar and one man is too skinny, one is too hairy and one is bald so Logan decides to let Patrick off the hook. Patrick is not willing to forgo the bet, he lost fair and square but the only man he can consider kissing is Logan.
Logan has always had a much stronger feeling than friendship when it came to Patrick but isn’t willing to lose his friend by admitting it to him. When they kiss, and it isn’t finished until there is tongue involved, Patrick finds himself going at it gung ho and even wants to continue the kiss. He is shocked that his first reaction wasn’t to run to the bathroom to throw up but now he needs to suggest an experiment to see if he truly is bisexual. He sets up ground rules and Logan is more than happy to be a part of the experiment.
Of course, to truly know if he is bisexual, he has to go further than just kissing to see if he gets to the point where he is totally turned off. The experiment proceeds for quite a while and there doesn’t seem to be anything Patrick isn’t willing to try, much to Logan’s delight.
Patrick is a developmental psychologist going for his PhD, and he is a firm believer in knowing yourself inside and out. Although he was convinced he was totally heterosexual, he realizes that there is something he needs to find out more about.
The experiment goes on for months, leaving Logan worried about the time when Patrick will decide the experiment is over and so is their being together. Logan tried to convince himself that no matter what happened he and Patrick could always go back to being friends, but he was so wrong. There is no way he can go back to the way things were, because he has always wanted Patrick and this experiment just made his feelings stronger.
It was interesting to watch Patrick take apart every action, examining what each action meant but after a while to started to become a little too much. My problem with the book was with how long it took for this experiment to come to a conclusion – a conclusion that would have been much better served if it ended a little earlier. I have read many gay books and watching what became a tutorial in whether a man was bi or not was just a little over the top to me.
I enjoyed the characters – both the main ones and the secondary ones – but it shouldn’t take forever for a man to discover what he really is.
The Reviewer
I am an avid reader the mother of 3 sons and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Since retiring I have been doing more reading while volunteering as a CASA worker. CASA is an organization that works with the family court system to ensure that children are in the best living situation. There are way too many children that get overlooked in the foster care system and I visit homes and make visits to the parents. I was born and raised in New York and my husband of 50 years and I live in Upstate New York.
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