I liked this book a lot! It was a super fun play on the movie Pretty Woman and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of the writing was a bit stilted, and some of the descriptions seemed a bit clinical. However, the story itself was really great and I would definitely read more from this author.

This is an amusing male on male take on "Pretty Woman", set in New York rather than Los Angeles. Wealthy businessman Roland pays male escort Josh to stand in as his boyfriend for a week of charity functions that he sponsors. Of course their relationship becomes more than trick/client as the week progresses. There is an age difference that only seems to be noticed by Roland. The pair have a great week as Josh shows Roland some New York sights he was not aware of, even though he has lived there for many years. A visit to a sex shop is balanced against a night out at the opera. A downer is Roland's bitchy ex-boyfriend; maybe too much of a stereotype.

There's plenty of explicit male/male sex, which shouldn't come as a surprise. Josh has some strong views about tops and bottoms, and gay relationships.

There's some over-the-top commentary and events, but all in all it's a fun read. Recommended for light entertainment.
Thanks to Riverhead Books and Netgalley for my copy of this eBook. The views expressed are my own.

Pretty Man, by Ryan Field is a fun story that focuses mostly on sex, and less on the relationship. It's a good erotica story, with some fun humor.

Personally, I found Josh's "gift" to Roland to come out of nowhere, and I was a little confused. But, after that, the kink continues. And if you like kink, you'll enjoy this book.

This is a very sexy M/M version of "Pretty Woman." Roland finally figures out what his life has been missing when he meets Josh - especially the "fun" in life. I would have liked to see more about their relationship, as it is difficult to see them emotionally engaged. It sounded like they might have some common interests, but then the whole story seemed to be about sex.

There are some inconsistencies and quite a few proofreading errors throughout.

Not my normal type of romance book. I didn't know what it was about when I first started reading it.

I love any book written by this author. He makes it all happen with humor and some very sexy scenes. I loved both characters equally. I’m a sucker for hot rich guy and the other character being in need on some kind of rescue.

Pretty and entertaining read.

Do not pick up this goofy little erotica novella unless you want to snicker and snort the whole way through. Hopefully I'm not completely misunderstanding this author's sense of humor (and he is new to me), but this one's cheeky as hell.

Intended as a spoof of Pretty Woman once I reminded myself not to take it too seriously I actually enjoyed most of it. Lost count of all the little things that had me rolling my eyes as if, but in the end that was okay and it all works.

While I definitely could have done without the description of Josh's underarms smelling like "raw onions and stale, yeasty beer" (yes, that's a direct quote and yes, it's supposed to be a good thing), the sex scenes were pretty hot and worked for this couple.

Ryan Field does a good job with the characters. Roland, a 45 year old multi-millionaire who's been living without it for way too long, and Josh a horny as hell $200/hour male escort with amazing stamina and a heart of gold, work well together.

The supremely campy dirty talk kept me laughing, and I can honestly say I'll read another book by Ryan Field when I need a smile... assuming (again) I'm not wrongly interpreting this one!

This story is too short. The characters are wonderful, and the plot is fairy tale, but really it need to have been longer. As you can tell from the cover, it is sort of a take on Pretty Woman. Roland is slightly older and rich and he hires Josh to be his escort for a week.

Somewhat unimaginative gay retelling of Pretty Woman. Very simplistic but that doesn't work against it as an enjoyable Saturday night read with a glass of wine and any- er- 'self-help appliances. Recommended.

Rough sex and lots of it. I prefer a little more story than was provided. A man asks a man he has never met to provide cover when he meets his ex and new boy toy. The y proceed to have a series of sexual episodes, including group sex and a crazy scene involving food that I thought was too much. It certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.

Although a promising and interesting premise to adapt the movie to two gay characters, I wanted more originality and more chemistry between Roland and Josh.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
I have never read an LGBT book before, so this was my first. It was a little bit on the graphic side, if you like that kind of thing.
The characters in this book are well developed and there is plenty of plot, unlike the 50 shades books which simply was porn. We begin with Roland Marcus returning to New York after being away for sometime and who does he see while walking along, but his ex-lover, Kenneth Rhodes.. Roland ducks into a used bookstore and literally bumps into Josh and we begin this book's version of Pretty Woman. We are taken on a journey of a well off man who is trying to make is ex-lover jealous and ends up falling in love. We are taken on fantastic adventures to high society events and getting all dolled up to go out. I was so excited to see all of the fun events they go to. This was such a great book!

Pretty Man by Ryan Field
ARC c/o Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Premise of the book is a M/M version of Pretty Women

I really liked these characters Josh ( hired escort) & Roland - wealthy businessman burned by his ex lover who left him for a younger man

Sex between the two is pretty explosive & just seems like it’s happening every few pages.

Really interesting concept & follows the heterosexual version of one of my favorite moves.

Enjoyable read

Good book.
Really liked it.
Would recommend to friends and family.
Would like to read more from this author.

This LGBT take on the classic movie Pretty Woman is very cute. When a 40-something man runs into his ex, he has to find a younger man to make the ex jealous. Then, they have to keep up the charade at a series of charity events (and of course, the younger man is getting paid for his time). The relationship between the two men was adorable and it felt like you really knew the older man well. The younger character was harder to understand and get inside, but overall, I very much enjoyed this read.

I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. While I thought the premise and plot setup was creatve and interesting, the characters were just not likable. They seemed very superficial. Also while there was definite sexual chemistry- there did not seem to be a connection on any other level. The sex scenes were steamy- but lacked an element of feeling to even the basest level. The writing style was odd, as were many of the descriptions. Describing someone's pecs as halved grapefruits is not a visual I find sexy and most followed in this vein. It is not a recommended read for me.

Roland is a man that after a relationship of over 20-years and been dumped, he met Josh, a young guy, and pay him to be his fake boyfriend for one week, like a male escort.
I truly liked the introduction that explain the problem we in the LGBT community have found in the LGBT content (books or movies), and the author wrote that he wrote about an asexual character, but frankly I can’t remember someone even close to be asexual.
I’m giving this book 4 stars, but that review feels more like a 3,5 stars.
I liked this book, one of the LGBT book with a happy ending! No tears here, honey.
It has really good description of place and sex scenes (it really describes everything) and has a strong language.

IT MIGHT CONTAIN SOME LITTLE SPOILER, I SWEAR NOTHING REALLY BIG THOUGH.

And there was something that I couldn’t really get, why every time Roland wants to give Josh a blowjob he has to be naked, I mean you will only use your mouth or/and your hands.
They experienced some sex stuff that probably were too much for me, that are not exactly my type of things, and I don’t fully liked it, but obviously this thought is extremely personal.
Maybe I was a little disappointed because I was expecting maybe more romantic and fluffy shit, but I got it only in the very last chapters.
Another thing that I didn’t like was that more than one Josh use the word pussy to describe Roland’s hole, but the whole thing about homosexual sex is exactly that there is no pussy here, and I don’t think that a gay man would say something like that to his partner.
Roland and Josh can get along with each other even though they’re really different kind of people. Speaking of, I like the age difference but I think that it wasn’t really highlighted, the author decided to bring that up only when Roland was getting ready for some mundane party.
This seemed like a gay and more smutty version of fifty shades of grey.
But in the end I liked it, even though I wouldn’t recommend this to everyone one, maybe to may gay best friend and his boyfriend, they would probably take some ideas.

Pretty Man is a story written by a new to me author: Ryan Field. It has been previously published, but revised into a new edition with a new cover. The book is marketed as a parody / gay version of the movie “Pretty Woman” and coupled with the foreword by the author, it gives a completely wrong impression of the story.

The foreword laments about the lack of lgbtq-characters in pop culture in the nineties and how Pretty Man is more of a ‘cinderfella’ story. In fact, the author states that part of the story is more of parody of Pretty Woman.

Going into the story, the readers finds out it is only very loosely based on Pretty Woman. Think, gay man finds gay sex worker and asks him to be his companion for a set time. After that is steers far away from anything we know about the populair movie. So you can imagine my confusion as this book is pretty much marketed as a parody for the movie, but turned out to be mostly porn.

While I absolutely love the ‘cinderfella’ trope, Pretty Man was a story that didn’t quite work out for me. I loved the idea of the main character of Roland meeting Josh in a bookstore and asking him to pretend to be his boyfriend to show his ex he isn’t mourning his loss.

However, from there, the story veers off into porn-without-a-plot land and even that doesn’t normally put me off. I love a good erotica story, but it was the way it was executed. The writing style is such that it almost feels like third person omniscient and as a result, there is almost to none emotional involvement from either Josh or Roland beyond what we are told by the narrator. So while this is story has a parody-type qualities, the characters are complete over-the-top gay stereotypes. They are captain cardboards in this story. Not to mention the fake dialogue going on between the characters that felt very wooden.

Overall, I think this story suffers from the wrong cover and could do without the foreword to put the reader in a wrong mindset. The story is not bad per se, but it’s basically a porn with the over-the-top sex, the cheesy phrases and the lack of getting an insight into the characters. it’s fun if you don’t take it too seriously and are not looking for Pretty Woman type story.

Again, thank you NetGalley for giving me a copy of the book.

I have to admit that I found the book entertaining but also a bit disappointing because of the gay stereotypes. Of course, on compares the book to the original movie. It*s a quick read and some might like it much better than I did.

This is the gay version of the book/ movie/ broadway play Pretty Woman.
The whole "gay version" does not bother me but this story did.
It was like reading a pirn version of the movie.