I Might Be in Trouble

I Might Be in Trouble by Daniel Aleman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


David Alvarez had a hit book a few years ago called “The Millers” and he figured his career was skyrocketing…then his follow up novel “The Walk Home” became a total flop and his life unraveled…he lost his boyfriend, he burned through all the money he made (Living in New York aint cheap)…he is desperate to bounce back but he has no good ideas…then, on the advice of his indefatigable literary agent, Stacey, (I love her, she calls everyone “Darling”) he partakes in a wild night out…he hits up Grindr and meets Robert….drinks flow, sex ensues…and maybe just maybe he has finally shaken loose the beginnings of an idea for his next book…

And then the man he has gone to bed with does not wake up…

Desperate to keep this quiet (Because it looks really really bad to be implicated in a death that he may or may not have caused), and lacking the will to do the right thing, he calls his agent… Stacey…who barely blinks an eye at the problem in front of her…

They have to move the body….
They have to bring him back to his own hotel…
They have to do it without anyone noticing….

A couple of “Weekend at Bernie’s” trips with the dead man to put him somewhere else…and then we come across some unexpected problems…including the fact that Robert was not exactly the person he said he was…

But damn this will make a great book….

I’ll just say it. I really enjoyed this too much to be overly critical of it. It is difficult to 100 percent call it a comedy or to even take it very seriously. It’s just a fun book that takes you to a deliberately messy place. And that’s what you can hope for, darling.




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