The Boys and the Bees
At almost the half mark, I gave up. Mark needed a backbone and Jamie needed a life. I was getting irritated with the characters and the pounding for eco values, diet and the humane treatment of animals, including urban chicken and bees, and the usual check mark against prejudiced and small-minded Christians, pastors, church and religion, any conservative values, life in bigoted small towns, Fox news, and on and on...
I did like the relationship between the characters -and if there had been more of that, I'd probably would have finished, especially because the writing style was good, and probably with a bit of trimming and editing, I'd have liked it much more.
