Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

A poignant comedy of modern gay life:

I picked up this book because a friend had recommended it and I read a good review. I absolutely devoured it--I spent my entire Saturday afternoon finishing it, because I had to know how it would end! It was like a great episode of Sex and the City, or of a smarter Queer as Folk. The main character, Toby, and his friends reminded me of a night out with my friends--a bunch of guys who are hip and smart on the outside yet are riddled with the insecurities that all of us have. The Trouble Boy is a fabulous,... more info

Promising Debut Novel:

Looking only at the inside flap of the book (come on, we're gay, we do it) it's hard to imagine that a strikingly handsome author of Dolby descent would be able to write a novel about being (or perceiving oneself as being) .. well, average, insecure and confused as to one's place in the world.

Actually READING the book, though, you find that his main character is all of those things. Cute and young enough to possibly make up for not being TOTALLY hot, Toby, the main character, seems to do nothing but... more info

"Yeah, the look says, "Come do something bad with me.":

Anyone who is interested in the trials of urban, hip, twenty-something gay men, is going to find a lot to like in Tom Dolby's debut novel, the Trouble Boy. The main protagonists live in a world of club kids, drag queens, leather daddies, fashion victims, gorgeous college kids who could belong in a Bruce Webber photograph, and personalities who don't fit into any category at all - all of them wed together in a society of mutual admiration. Smart, intuitive, and sexy, the novel introduces us to the immensely... more info

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