{"id":3409,"date":"2018-10-10T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:06:30","slug":"review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer\" title=\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Mr. Nice Guy<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/jason-feifer\/\">Jason Feifer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/jennifer-miller\/\">Jennifer Miller<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/st-martins-griffin\/\">St. Martin's Griffin<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> October 16, 2018 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/fiction\/\">Fiction<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 384 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/netgalley\/\">NetGalley<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b><i>\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada<\/i> meets <i>Sex and the City<\/i>\u2014a page-turner that's part sex diary, part coming-of-age story.\"\u2014Carolyn Kylstra, editor in chief, <i>SELF<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lucas Callahan gave up his law degree, fianc\u00e9e and small-town future for a shot at making it in the Big Apple. He snags an entry-level job at <i>Empire<\/i> magazine, believing it\u2019s only a matter of time before he becomes a famous writer. And then late one night in a downtown bar he meets a gorgeous brunette who takes him home...<\/p>\n<p>Carmen Kelly wanted to be a hard-hitting journalist, only to find herself cast in the role of Empire's sex columnist thanks to the boys' club mentality of Manhattan magazines. Her latest piece is about an unfortunate\u2014and unsatisfying\u2014encounter with an awkward and nerdy guy, who was nice enough to look at but horribly inexperienced in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas only discovers that he\u2019s slept with the infamous Carmen Kelly\u2014that is, <i>his own magazine\u2019s sex columnist!\u2014<\/i>when he reads her printed take-down. Humiliated and furious, he pens a rebuttal and signs it, \"Nice Guy.\" <i>Empire<\/i> publishes it, and the pair of columns go viral. Readers demand more. So the magazine makes an arrangement: Each week, Carmen and Lucas will sleep together... and write dueling accounts of their sexual exploits.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the most provocative sexual relationship any couple has had, but the columnist-lovers are soon engaging in more than a war of words: They become seduced by the city\u2019s rich and powerful, tempted by fame, and more attracted to each other than they\u2019re willing to admit. In the end, they will have to choose between ambition, love, and the consequences of total honesty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mr-Nice-Guy-Jennifer-Miller-ebook\/dp\/B079DVZTQS\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/mr-nice-guy\/id1341734061?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apple.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Apple\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller\/1127685063?ean=9781250189899&st=AFF&2sid=Goodreads,%20Inc_2227948_NA&sourceId=AFFGoodreads,%20Inc#\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bn.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Barnes & Noble\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/mr-nice-guy-3\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kobo.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Kobo\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781250189882\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/indiebound.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Indiebound\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/38232532-mr-nice-guy\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/3stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0002_3-stars.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"3 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/contemporary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0007_contemporary.png?fit=140%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"contemporary icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/m-f\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/categories_0003_m_f-copy.png?fit=80%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"m\/f\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": ,\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Llama Reads Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Mr. Nice Guy\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Jason Feifer, Jennifer Miller\",\n\t\t\t\"sameAs\": \"\"\t\t},\n\t\t\"isbn\": \"1250189896\"\t},\n\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"ReadingLlama\",\n\t\t\"sameAs\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/\"\t},\n\t\"reviewRating\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Rating\",\n\t\t\"ratingValue\": 3,\n\t\t\"bestRating\": \"5\"\n\t}\n}\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<hr \/>\n<p>Content warning: <span class=\"ubb-spoiler\"><a class=\"ubb-view-spoil\">View Spoiler &raquo;<\/a><span style=\"display: none;\" class=\"ubb-thespoil\">sexual assault (women retells attempted rape), rampant sexism <a class=\"ubb-hide-spoil\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;\">&laquo; Hide Spoiler<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>First off &#8211; this is not a romance. \u00a0It\u2019s lit fic about two characters who have sex with each other and then write articles about it, layered on top of a traditional \u201cboy meets city\u201d theme. \u00a0It\u2019s a bit of mash-mash of several themes, and while some of them work, some of them most definitely don\u2019t. \u00a0It, like Lucas, is a bit too naively ambitious, and they both fall short.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJesus! We\u2019re not sexual altruists working for the greater good. This is about making people buy magazines. And do you know how?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cApparently not.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re creating a titillating, tidy little circle of judgment. I\u2019m going to judge you. You\u2019re going to judge me. And the good people of New York are going to judge both of us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What starts out as a one-night-stand turns into a snarky popular sex column, when Lucas finds out that the woman he picked up at a bar is actually the sex columnist at the magazine he works for, and her latest viral article excoriates, well, him. \u00a0Full of fury for himself and all the other \u201cnice guys\u201d she\u2019s panning, he pens a scathing response, and before he knows it, they\u2019re meeting weekly to have bad sex and then write mean articles about the other person\u2019s performance. \u00a0In the midst of this, Lucas is trying to manage his day job as a fact-checker, going to lavish and over the top PR parties, and trying to find a way to move himself up the career ladder. \u00a0In that sense, at least, this reads as more of a \u201cyoung man comes to the big city to make something of himself!!!\u201d book, with the whole sex column thing plastered on top. \u00a0The book itself references <i>The Great Gatsby\u00a0<\/i>several times, and to be honest, it\u2019s been a long time since I read that book, so I\u2019m not sure how much of this can be read as an updated response to it.<\/p>\n<p>My main issue with this book is that the characters are unlikeable. \u00a0I think we\u2019re supposed to sympathize with Lucas for his gullibility and honesty, but goodness, even in his vulnerability he\u2019s a jerk. \u00a0While he does live up to his \u201cnice guy\u201d status in the end, he spends most of the book stumbling from one stupidity to the next, and ignores advice from his friends that could\u2019ve helped him. \u00a0Reading the parts of the book from his POV &#8211; which is the majority of it &#8211; was eye-rollingly frustrating, because it was so obvious how each gullible action he took would backfire on him. \u00a0My least favorite was when he realizes that Jays (his boss, the main editor of the magazine) had also slept with Carmen, and is elated because it \u201cputs him in the same league.\u201d \u00a0Delightfully sexist, right? \u00a0He makes his mom cry when he comes home for Christmas! \u00a0Carmen\u2019s not much better, though I appreciated that she was much more self-aware about her actions and how they appeared. \u00a0I do have sympathy for women trying to fight the glass ceiling. \u00a0Carmen\u2019s searching for a way out of the sex columnist box she\u2019s found herself in, and trapped in the persona she\u2019s had to craft to survive in the cutthroat world of journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The romance is nonexistent. \u00a0I was expecting a \u201chate-to-love\u201d but instead we get something more like \u201chate-to-friends-with-benefits.\u201d \u00a0They\u2019re forced into this relationship, and Carmen\u2019s determined to handle it in a business-like manner while Lucas is constantly pushing for \u201cvulnerability\u201d and \u201cmeaning.\u201d \u00a0From the beginning, there\u2019s a level of disdain and judgement on both sides that wreck any chances of an actual relationship forming. \u00a0Lucas\u2019s insistence on an emotional response to what was honestly a business transaction was annoying, rather than endearing. \u00a0While they have some chemistry, I don\u2019t feel like it was communicated to the reader very well, and frankly I found most of the sex scenes (and the erotic retellings of them in their columns) to be decidedly unsexy. \u00a0We\u2019re halfway through the book before the two even start actually talking to each other, and that\u2019s when they finally became interesting. \u00a0Unfortunately, it\u2019s not too long after that the big misunderstanding occurs, and they basically cut contact with each other.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe felt tall and powerful, towering above Jays in her Louboutins. And, yet, the rush of total victory eluded her. Negotiating the terms of a contractually bound fuck buddy was not what Sheryl Sandberg had in mind when she instructed women to Lean In.<br \/>\nStill, Carmen felt competent. She hadn\u2019t been <em>totally<\/em> steamrolled\u2014a small and perhaps pathetic kind of success, but also the only one available to her. Working with what she had, she\u2019d harnessed that same resourcefulness from her childhood bedroom. She wasn\u2019t much different from Jays, in this way. She was taking care of herself, first and foremost, as always.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the fact that I didn\u2019t enjoy the majority of the book, I think there are some interesting points to take away from it. \u00a0Many of the main characters are well-off white men who came to NYC to \u201cmake something of themselves.\u201d \u00a0Lucas, while living the life on a \u201cpoor&#8221; fact-checker in NYC, comes from an upper middle-class Southern family that\u2019s constantly trying to appear richer. \u00a0Spragg, the eccentric and obscenely wealthy heir to a hotel empire, is constantly trying on new origin stories that play better than his midwest roots. \u00a0Even Jays fits the mold of the guy who came from nowhere and hit it big, with his magazine, restaurant, and other ventures. \u00a0The differences &#8211; and similarities &#8211; between the men\u2019s approaches to success, and the degree to which they get it, was thought-provoking. \u00a0Carmen, in contrast, is a native New Yorker, who, along with her grandma, is struggling to maintain her place in a city that doesn\u2019t seem to return her loyalty, and seems to want nothing to do with her now that she&#8217;s no longer in her twenties. Of course there\u2019s also the obvious media ethics angles &#8211; should a magazine be paying people to have sex, and what does it say about us that we want to read about it?<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think you can guess that this isn\u2019t my kind of book. \u00a0I went in expecting a romance, and was disappointed by the lit fic angle instead. \u00a0If you\u2019re looking for something Gatsby-ish, love stories that idolize NYC as the \u201cgreatest city in the world,\u201d and looking for stories about ambitious &#8211; but gullible &#8211; people, I think you\u2019d have a better time of it.<\/p>\n<p>One extra note, about the content warning: <span class=\"ubb-spoiler\"><a class=\"ubb-view-spoil\">View Spoiler &raquo;<\/a><span style=\"display: none;\" class=\"ubb-thespoil\">There&#8217;s a scene where Lucas, while investigating someone for an article, finds an allegation of attempted rape and he confronts the victim.<br\/><br\/>\n\u201cWhy\u2019d you let some rich kid get away with it?\u201d he asked. \u201cWhy not press charges?\u201d<br\/><br\/>\nI know this was written well before the Kavanaugh allegations came out, but this struck me as really tone-deaf. \u00a0I understand where the authors were going with this, but I feel like it was addressed in a way that could be harmful for survivors. <a class=\"ubb-hide-spoil\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;\">&laquo; Hide Spoiler<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: First off &#8211; this is not a romance. \u00a0It\u2019s lit fic about two characters who have sex with each other and then write articles about it, layered on top of a traditional \u201cboy meets city\u201d theme. \u00a0It\u2019s a bit of mash-mash of several themes, and while some of them work, some of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,22,497],"book-tag":[162,179,584],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-3-stars","tag-contemporary","tag-fiction","book-author-jason-feifer","book-author-jennifer-miller","book-publisher-st-martins-griffin","book-genre-fiction","book-source-netgalley","book-format-ebook","book-tag-3stars","book-tag-contemporary","book-tag-m-f"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"ReadingLlama","author_link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/author\/readingllama\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Content warning: First off &#8211; this is not a romance. \u00a0It\u2019s lit fic about two characters who have sex with each other and then write articles about it, layered on top of a traditional \u201cboy meets city\u201d theme. \u00a0It\u2019s a bit of mash-mash of several themes, and while some of them work, some of them...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Llama Reads Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"310\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"475\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ReadingLlama\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@llamareadsbooks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@llamareadsbooks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ReadingLlama\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ReadingLlama\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab\"},\"headline\":\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1238,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"3 stars\",\"contemporary\",\"fiction\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Reviews\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\",\"name\":\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1\",\"width\":310,\"height\":475,\"caption\":\"Mr. Nice Guy\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/10\\\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Llama Reads Books\",\"description\":\"This llama reads - mostly romance, fantasy and science fiction\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab\",\"name\":\"ReadingLlama\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i2.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i2.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i2.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200\",\"width\":200,\"height\":200,\"caption\":\"ReadingLlama\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i2.wp.com\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/llamareadsbooks\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books","og_description":"Content warning: First off &#8211; this is not a romance. \u00a0It\u2019s lit fic about two characters who have sex with each other and then write articles about it, layered on top of a traditional \u201cboy meets city\u201d theme. \u00a0It\u2019s a bit of mash-mash of several themes, and while some of them work, some of them...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/","og_site_name":"Llama Reads Books","article_published_time":"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":310,"height":475,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"ReadingLlama","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@llamareadsbooks","twitter_site":"@llamareadsbooks","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ReadingLlama","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/"},"author":{"name":"ReadingLlama","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab"},"headline":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer","datePublished":"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/"},"wordCount":1238,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","keywords":["3 stars","contemporary","fiction"],"articleSection":["Reviews"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/","url":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/","name":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy - Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer - Llama Reads Books","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","datePublished":"2018-10-10T18:15:47+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","width":310,"height":475,"caption":"Mr. Nice Guy"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/review-mr-nice-guy-jennifer-miller-and-jason-feifer\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Review: Mr. Nice Guy &#8211; Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/","name":"Llama Reads Books","description":"This llama reads - mostly romance, fantasy and science fiction","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5e74a3baab5108c5a3d39c380268f6ab","name":"ReadingLlama","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200","url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200","width":200,"height":200,"caption":"ReadingLlama"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5613a46e55df8fb95c675c94e7fec077.png?fit=200%2C200"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/","https:\/\/x.com\/llamareadsbooks"]}]}},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":8,"label":"Reviews"}],"post_tag":[{"value":11,"label":"3 stars"},{"value":22,"label":"contemporary"},{"value":497,"label":"fiction"}],"book-author":[{"value":742,"label":"Jason Feifer"},{"value":741,"label":"Jennifer Miller"}],"book-publisher":[{"value":743,"label":"St. Martin's Griffin"}],"book-genre":[{"value":494,"label":"Fiction"}],"book-source":[{"value":49,"label":"NetGalley"}],"book-format":[{"value":50,"label":"eBook"}],"book-tag":[{"value":162,"label":"3 Stars"},{"value":179,"label":"Contemporary"},{"value":584,"label":"M\/F"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1",310,475,true],"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":8,"name":"Reviews","slug":"reviews","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":805,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":8,"category_count":805,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Reviews","category_nicename":"reviews","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":11,"name":"3 stars","slug":"3-stars","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":22,"name":"contemporary","slug":"contemporary","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":22,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":154,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":497,"name":"fiction","slug":"fiction","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":497,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/38232532.jpg?fit=310%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPkhl-SZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"book-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-tag?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}