I was not expecting the poor reception of this debut poetry collection here. It’s a hypersexual gay book for starters. Arvin Abejo Mangohig muses about past lovers and fuck buddies to the extent that he sounds a little too cheesy and corny. If you think about it, that’s what desire, whether evolved into obsession or matured into passion, affects a person. Plain hookups and love stories are turned into overly dramatic narrative poems, which are easy to read for an allosexual gay male reader to feel instantly represented. (This review comes from an acespec reader.)