Author: Helena Hunting
Publisher: Simon & Schuster audio
Rating: WARTY!
Read pathetically by Elizabeth Louise and Jason Carpenter.
The author's name sounds like the title of a John Green novel, doesn't it?! This is a prequel, so we're told, but it was one disk, and that was it. Not even a short story to speak of! In other words, it's merely a trailer or a teaser, and it failed to tease, leaving with its trailer dragging between its legs. The two reader's voices were sadly inadequate, and the story itself was dumb and boring.
It's is told in two parts, once from the female PoV in first person, and once from the male in the same way. I detest 1PoV because it's so limiting, self-centered, and usually not done well, although some authors can do a decent job of it. The problem with the female half, which came first, was that she sounded like a complete ditz - a vacuous air-headed co-ed with nothing of interest to offer. She's quite obviously the cupcake in the title, and the dark thoughts of the male make him the ink, without a doubt.
I could not grasp at first why the male, whose name I forget (he was a very forgettable character), had any interest in Tenley, which is the bizarre name of the female, but soon it became clear. He is just as flat and uninteresting as she is, so they're actually perfect for each other; it's a match made in "Good heavens!"
Both are equally shallow, interested only in the pure physical appearance of the other. The guy actually plays peeping Tom, but it's really Tenley's fault since she's romping around her apartment in her skivvies, and she doesn't believe in expending valuable energy drawing her curtains. Guys will look (and so will girls), and that's all there is to it. If you don't make reasonable attempts at safeguarding your private domain, such as in the simple act of pulling the drapes, then it's curtains for your privacy, and you have only yourself to blame!
Nothing happens in this teaser except fantasy - at least, the guy fantasizes whilst he masturbates until his ink runs out, but the cupcake is obviously far too delicate for something as robust as masturbating, so she merely has a wet dream, and that's actually what this teaser was: all wet and a good story? In your dreams.
