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Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel

E. Lynn Harris

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Total reviews: 80 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets.

Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church’s "Celibacy Circle." Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and very handsome, Brady is a lead contender for the Heisman Trophy and a spot in the NFL.

As sports agents hover around Brady, Barrett, a beautiful and charming cheerleader, sets her mind on tempting the celibate Brady and getting a piece of his multimillion-dollar future—but is that all she wants from him, and is she acting alone?

Carmyn is determined to protect her son. She’s also determined to protect the secret she’s kept from Brady his whole life. As things heat up on campus and Carmyn and Brady’s idyllic relationship starts to crumble, mother and son begin to wonder about the other—are you just too good to be true?

A sweeping novel about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies, JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE has all the ingredients that have made E. Lynn Harris a bestselling author: family, friendship, faith, and love.

Hero Heel Volume 3 (Yaoi) (v. 3)

Makoto Tateno

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

This series get better with each volume as the emotional battle comes to a dramatic conclusion. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I really have a wonderful time finishing this series in one go. This story just gets better with each volume as the emotional struggles among the 4 actors deepen. The TV action hero series, in which the 4 guys starred in, serving as a background is refreshing and it plays like a sub plot. Sensei really has a fun time drawing the costumes :).

We know the outcome of this quadrangle love story. However it is the emotional battle to get there which holds my attention from Vol 2 onwards as I naturally root for both "hero" and "villain" to be together.
Who is my favorite character. It is ofcourse Sawada. He is such a cool, cool seme, his silence and near cynical outlook of life, making him such an interesting character. As the story progresses we almost fully understand Sawada's feelings and he remains a mystique till the end. Minami brought to the brink of despair by Sawada's rejection is one vulnerable character with a naivety and "goodness" which I find sometimes frustrating but then he is forgiven because he is afterall the uke hero. Katagiri may have most readers' sympathy by the end of Vol 3 but then I never rooted for him. I quite like Takagi, the more mature uke who learn the hard way there is no second chance in love, and find myself rooting for his and Sawada's reconciliation but that will not be the Yaoi ending we want. LOL.

I enjoy Hero Heel a lot. The 4 guys may have similar features (something sensei could improve on?) but they are 4 distinct characters and their emotional struggles to hold on to the one they love makes Hero Heel one captivating Yaoi. And the sex in Vol 3 is both sensual and sexy, and a bonus point to sensei for the condom :).

Editorial Review:

Minami chooses Katagiri over Sawada not to forget, but to move forward. However, after suddenly receiving a kiss from Sawada, who he was supposed to have forgotten, Minami's heart is severely shaken! Feelings grow complicated as filming and Minami's relationships reach a climax!

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Andre Aciman

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Total reviews: 107 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year

A New York Magazine “Future Canon” Selection

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year

One of The Seattle Times’ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the Year

An Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of the Year

An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Debut Fiction (#6)

An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Gay & Lesbian (#1)

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

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Total reviews: 81 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent 4 out of 5 stars.
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A deeply felt and personal short novel about an American ex-patriot who falls in love with another man in Paris. Baldwin establishes an undeniable tension between David's desire for Giovanni and his desire to live a normal life with his fiancee. There are many quiet and subtle moments in 'Giovanni's Room' that are as good as the best sections in early Hemingway. In a way this novel is more personal and reflective than Baldwin's much esteemed 'Go Tell it On the Mountain,' though it clearly does not have the same political involvement with race relations as the latter does. As always, Baldwin's dialogue is largely impeccable, weaving seamlessly from colloquial interactions, to French, to formal and reserved English. Truly a fine literary achievement.

Editorial Review:

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Death Vows

Richard Stevenson

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Marriage = Death 5 out of 5 stars.
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Stevenson is a longtime master at the gay mystery, at Death Vows is the his latest book to delight and torment the amateur detective.

Mystery, murder, extortion and plenty of dark secrets keep Death Vow barreling ahead to it's deadly conclusion.

Don Strachey is one of the most enduring gay detectives out there, and Death Vows reminds us why this sexy and determined sleuth has lasted for so long. I just wish we had gotten to see more of his boyfriend Timothy in this book! Let's hope we see more of this sweet and funny couple in the future.

Scott Sherman, author, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery

Death Vows 4 out of 5 stars.
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Gay PI Donald Strachey is reluctant when two men want to hire him to investigate the fiancée of a friend of theirs, but he agrees to take the case. He soon discovers no one is who they seem to be, not even his clients. Although he tries to extracat himself from the situation, Donald finds himself drawn back in when one of his former clients is murdered, and the man he was investigating is implicated. Can Donald figure out who really murdered the victim before it's too late?

Death Vows is the second Donald Strachey mystery I've read, and I really enjoyed it. Strachey is a fascinating character. In Death Vows, he seems to have settled into his life somewhat, especially when it comes to his lover Timothy Callahan. Fortunately, he still has the same sarcastic sense of humor and strong yet ambiguous convictions. Sometimes his desire to make a living conflicts with his desire to do what's right, but he always makes the right decision--eventually. Secondary characters, including Timothy, various clients and suspects, and contacts of Strachey's are colorful and interesting. The mystery itself kept me guessing and turning pages. While I would have liked to have seen more of Timothy in Death Vows, it's an entertaining installment to the Donald Strachey series. Readers who enjoy quirky characters and interesting, unusual mystery plots should not hesitate to pick up Death Vows.

Cassie
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Editorial Review:

Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution------except when it leads to murder, as it does in this taut, suspenseful Don Strachey private eye novel, the ninth in the classic series. Strachey and his loving foil, Timothy Callahan, are back in perfect form in this witty, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller.

Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

Leslie Feinberg

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Total reviews: 73 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Deeply Moving Novel 5 out of 5 stars.
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This novel/memoir chronicles the world of a working class lesbian, gay, and transgendered people from the days before Stonewall to the present. It is a classic and probably the most important book available about transgender issues. I cried reading it on the train.

Feinberg is a committed communist, and some of the scenes involving worker solidarity are a contrived, but the book is well written and deeply moving. The scenes of gay bashing are, I should warn you, horrific, but this is a book very much worth reading.

Editorial Review:

Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.

Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.

Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

Loveholic Volume 2 (Yaoi)

Toko Kawai

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Love this one. A gem of a vol 2. 5 out of 5 stars.
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It has been more that 1.5 years since the release of Loveholic 1. This sequel is just as charming if not better and I find myself falling in love with Matsukawa and Nishioka all over again. Who would have thought Matsukawa is such a caring and loving seme.

In vol 2, they are more or less a couple but it seems Matsukawa is the only one willing to commit on a deeper level as Nishioka shys away from uttering the 3 "fatal" words. Matsukawa, more open about their relationship, is frustrated but being the more mature seme he is, puts up with Nishioka's fearful reservation. It does not help that the demands of careers and family conspire to keep them apart, culminating to a cross road where the lovers face an ultimatum.

Vol 2 expresses their ups and downs as lovers so well, their feelings convincing, heartfelt, bittersweet yet so loving and tender. There are of course light hearted funny moments too. One particular scene in the carnival is just outrageously cute and the last bonus epilogue on Matsukawa's tattoo is funny yet so sweet.

Toko Kawai's artwork is of course a delight, her guys' expressions so vivid. Loveholic is pure charm and I just love its deeply emotional ending. So glad that June has given us the complete story.

Editorial Review:

Daisuke Matsukawa and the up-and-coming young cameraman Kentaro Nishioka have developed from comrades who work well together into friends who are called lovers. But even though he's sexy, the shy Nishioka is also obstinate and naughty. Poor Matsukawa has no idea where this love affair is headed.

My Fair Captain

J. L. Langley

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Total reviews: 27 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Talk about a compromising situation! A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence. Swarthy Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins ran from a past he had no intention of ever reliving. But when his Admiral asks him to use his peerage, as an earl and the heir to a dukedom, to investigate a missing weapons stash, hes forced to do just that. As if being undercover on a Regency planet where the young men are supposed to remain pure until marriage isnt bad enough, Nate finds himself attracted to the kings unmarried son. All Prince Aiden Townsend has ever wanted was to be an artist. He has no interest in a marriage of political fortune or becoming a societal paragon. Until he lands in the arms of the mysterious Earl of Deverell. One look at Nates handsome face has Aiden reconsidering his future. Not only does Nate make a virile subject for Aidens art, but the great war hero awakens feelings in Aiden he has never felt, feelings he cant ignore. After a momentous dance at a season ball, Aiden and Nate find themselves exchanging important information and working closely together. They have to fight their growing attraction long enough to find out who stole the weapons and keep themselves from a compromising situation and certain scandal. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, violence, hot nekkid man-love.

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Tony Kushner

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Total reviews: 36 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

I love this book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a college student majoring in Theater Design. I had to read this play for one of my classes my freshman year. So I sat down expecting to plod through a story that I'd never read again. Boy was I shocked! I loved it! I couldn't put it down until I'd read the last page, and then I got right online and ordered the sequel. Honestly, I'm not as big a fan of the second book. I haven't read it in a while, but from what I remember it's more offensive, and honestly, a little more like smut. There's an angel with 7 vaginas and it has sex with one of the characters...one of the gay characters..go figure. The second book also seems to take more pot shots at God, which I didn't appreciate as a Christian. Anyway. This is a review of the first book, not the second. (just reminding myself!) I have 7 big bookcases of books at my parents' house, plus my dad is a librarian, so I do a LOT of reading. This book is ALWAYS one of the few "Chosen" books that I take to college with me to keep in my dorm. And just as a side note, I'm not gay, so this book is NOT just for gay people like some of the people whom I've talked to seem to think. BUY IT! You'll be enlightened and inspired to think.

Editorial Review:

The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations.

The Boy Next Door

G. A. Hauser

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Wonderful, Charming Gay Love Story 5 out of 5 stars.
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This was the most heartwarming and engrossing gay love story I've ever read. I loved the way the characters were described, and the realistic way in which their relationship changed over time. As youngsters they clearly understood the danger they faced if their innocent affection for each other was discovered, this was described so well and so realistically it took me back to my own days as a gay youth.

I recommend this love story with no hesitation. The characters are completely believable as is the story line.

I read the Kindle version and could hardly stop.

Editorial Review:

Youget your firstTownsend and Zachary Sherman were best friends and next-door neighbors. Growing up together in a cozy suburban town in New Jersey, they were inseparable and thought nothing could tear them apart. Then one night something happened between them, something that brought them even closer togethern that what began as youthful sexual experimentation would lead them into an affair of the heart that would rock them to the core. Nor did they expect the danger of being discovered and separated by their families. At the time, neither Brandon or Zach realized that life would give them another opportunity. Then, ten years later, a chance meeting brings them together again. Let best-selling gay fiction author G.A. Hauser take you on an unforgettable journey. A coming of age story about faith, about courage, and about trust¿you¿ll never forget The Boy Next Door.