Clam Jam

by RC Boldt

“Clam Jam”





Definition: the female equivalent of a cock block.





Example: You’re chatting with a guy you’re interested in and your friend comes along and lays claim to him.





Maggie


That’s my life—except it’s worse. My friend who keeps “jamming” me is my gay roommate, and if that isn’t a W.T.F. moment, I’m not sure what is.





Fact: He went home with three—yes, three—of the guys I had been so sure were into me.





Fact: He’s really pissing me off. I mean, hello? I’m trying to get back in the saddle, but I’ll never manage to get a boyfriend before the age of fifty if he keeps this up.





Fact: Secretly, I wonder what it would be like if he weren’t gay. Why do all the hot, sweet, tender-hearted guys have to be gay?





Fact: My gay-dar needs a serious tune-up.





Ry


The day I interviewed for the room to rent, everything changed. I knew I had met “the girl,” except there was one small problem: she didn’t want anything to do with men. I recognized a top-notch force field when I saw one. She’d been burned badly and didn’t want to deal with a heterosexual guy as a roommate. I could’ve turned around and found another place to live, but I wanted to live there—with her.





So I had to go “undercover.”





Fact: I’m in love with my roommate.





Fact: I’m a likely candidate for carpal tunnel surgery since all the action I’ve had for the past year has been my hand.





Fact: She’s going to hate me if I come clean now.





Fact: I’m not giving up. Which means I’ll just have to continue to run defense until I figure out a way to get Maggie to see the “real” me.





The me that loves her.





The me that would never do her wrong.





Until then, I’ll keep running off every guy who shows any interest.





Until then, I’ll continue to Clam Jam.

• ISBN10: 1682309967
• ISBN13: 9781682309964
• Publish Date: 23 February 2017 (first published 10 January 2017)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 28 January 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Diversion Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 300
• Language: English

Reviews

[boghunden]

I wanted to like this book so, so much. I've been waiting for it since before it was released. It just sounded hilarious to me.

And funny it was. Like really. Laugh out loud-funny. At least in the beginning... It didn't take long for the jokes to get old and the humor to die out. The problems I had was that it just went on for too long.

I loved that Ry pretended to be something he wasn't, and the ways he came up with to clam jam Maggie was creative and fun. As the story went on, he continued this behaviour and it started to get on my nerve. What was fun for the first 50% of the book, started to really annoy me. It wasn't just three or four guys this happened with. It was more like 12 or even more. Come on! That's not the way to win a girl over! He should've manned up a long before then.
And Maggie...well, she was just too naive. How could she not get what Ry was up to? Her friend tried to tell her, Ry's pretend-boyfriend tried to tell her, even Ry's family and friends tried to tell her. Why didn't she want to listen to them, when it was obvious that she liked him?

As far as the writing style goes, I liked it, but again, it became too much of the same thing and it didn't progress fast enough for me to really appreciate. I would've liked it a lot more had it been a 100 pages shorter. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

It was a quick and fun read, but overall I probably just went in with too high expectations.

[thebookdisciple]

I have such mixed feelings....I loved the idea of this book. But the fact that he pretended to be gay for over a year...dude. No.
And even when they started having SEX she still wasn't sure if he was gay or bi or what? No.
And his lame ass attempt to explain WHY he never told her? Hell no.
I think if the book had been shorter and the lie hadn't drug on for so long I would have found it an enjoyable read. But for over a year he convinced her he was gay? WT actual F?

I oddly had the complete opposite reaction to the narrators. In the beginning I didn't really care for either of them. I though both had voices that were a bit higher pitched than I imagined. However, the longer I listened, the more enjoyable they became. It was like a weird independent relationship to the plot: the less I liked the plot, the more I liked the narrators. Weird right? What can you do?

[Lynn]

Light-hearted, fun and sexy novel. Maggie and Ry are adorable.