Thanks to Simon and Schuster for the free advance copy of this book.

Twentysomething gay New Yorker Richard has hit a wall, both in his dissertation and his dating life. Somehow, though, his much brighter classmate Anne takes him under her wing, giving his writing new life - but she's also quite obviously in love with him. At the same time, Grindr finally pays off with Blake - attractive, kind, and wealthy. Now, instead of no paths forward, Richard may have too many.

Credit where it's due for this book - it's quite funny. GOING DUTCH is full of zingers and funny potshots at everyone from dudes on dating apps (I'm still gigging at "a gingham of torsos") to academia to directionless activists. But that's about where the fun ended for me and the confusion began.

GOING DUTCH is billed as a story about a love triangle, but is it really a triangle when Richard is the only one who even knows about all the parties? We're not caught between three people, he's just two-timing them. And two-timing them both to the point that they both ask him to move in with them, and when he's confronted by them he still can't even say he's been dating multiple people? I think that's where the trouble lay with this book for me - Richard was more or less inert, even in climactic scenes. He simply let everyone else push him along. And in the end, his bad behavior didn't even matter. Life went back to normal and he even got the guy and stayed friends with Anne. Not that every character should face children's story-style consequences for their actions, but why did we do any of this?