I like it when an author can take serious topics and have some fun with them, probably because I also use humour as a defence mechanism 👀 Just by Looking at Him tackles addiction, disability, queer & open relationships and infidelity and will also have you cackling. Sometimes the humour went a little overboard tbf, but overall the effect was good. I’ve seen some reviews which worry this book feeds into the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man, but I (although a lesbian not a gay man) didn’t take it that way. Elliott is a disabled queer man and I think the author does a good job of showing that it’s Elliott’s own personal baggage he’s working through, not to be taken (as no book should) as a representative of gay men as a whole. Some of the side characters felt underdeveloped and I questioned Elliott’s newfound friendship with a certain terrible man, but overall I enjoyed it a lot!