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(My Only Home)

Noah Hill is back in the town that he left behind five years ago. What's really strange about it all is that Noah is not really sure why he is back - certainly not for his distant father. Now that Noah's back though, he has to face his best-friend Lucas, the problem is that when Noah left the first time, he also left Lucas behind without a word of goodbye. Will Noah be able to ignore the attraction he has always felt for Lucas while he is in town or will he finally face up to his feelings?

Lucas Wesson has had a rough couple of years and not having his best friend's support during this time has been hard. Now that Noah is back in town maybe they can get their friendship back, but Lucas is not holding his breath - after all, Noah tends to run when things get difficult.

My Only Home is a nice romance about love that endures even in the face of time and distance. Noah is an imperfect man that tends to run when faced with difficult emotional situations. Lucas is a more attractive character as he radiates certainty in himself and in his ability to deal with life as it comes. These two together are an unlikely pair, even with the history of friendship, as Lucas is a "straight" man and it was unclear if Noah was out as a gay man or not. However, the romance between Noah and Lucas is sweet and the passion steamy when they finally come together. My Only Home is an entertaining read for a careless afternoon.

Sabella
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The night before Noah Hill left his hometown of Mountain View, he had a drunken sexual tryst with his best friend, Lucas Wesson. Deeply in the closet, Noah is horrified at his behavior, and terrified of what Lucas would think of him. He left the next morning without saying goodbye, and effectively cut off all ties. He returns five years later to help his father, and runs into his old best friend almost as soon as he reaches town. And nothing has changed. He still loves Lucas, and he still can't stand to meet the other man's eyes.

Lucas has been through a lot in the past five years without his best friend's support. A marriage. A divorce. A child. Running his own business. He also remembers his one night with Noah with perfect clarity. For five years, he only wanted Noah to come home. But now that Noah is back, things have changed too much to ever be the same between them...

Genres: Gay / Contemporary
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< The Boy Next Door > < Forgotten Song > < Crossing Borders > < Diving in Deep > < The Assignment > < Teacher's Pet > G. A. Hauser

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(It was ok)

(The Boy Next Door)

(Wonderful, Charming Gay Love Story)

(The Boy Next Door by G.A. Hauser)

It was alright a little misogynistic I mainly just skipped over the sex scenes they were awkward and unrealistic
Lindsey Salinger knows that her father would not be happy if he knew that she was helping the family of the man that killed her mother in an accident, but she could not hold it against the five-year-old that needed her now. Lindsey is forced to contact Zach to see if he can help his nephew and the grandmother that raised him.

Zach Rundle does not trust Lindsey's motives but he comes back home to prove her wrong. At first it looks like he is right and that his grandmother is fine, but then his grandmother is forced to ask for help. Lindsey is convinced that Zach should become the guardian to his nephew, but he knows nothing about children and he isn't sold on the idea, but somehow it starts looking like the right choice.

The Boy Next Door should be a staple in any Harlequin junkies book collection. Zach and Lindsey are both well written characters dealing with realistic situations in their lives that make them both easy to sympathize with and easy to like. The five-year-old nephew did not feel too old for his age, something I appreciated.

Tori
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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.
I always love G.A. Hauser's books, they are easy to read and very romantic, with a "acid" side, it's not easy to explain, but her romances are never too sugary, since there is always a bit of naughty side in her characters.

The Boy Next Door is a coming of age book. I didn't expect that a great part of the book is dedicated to the relationship between Brandon and Zach when they where stil two teens in heat. Brandon and Zach always live next door, and since they were one years old, everything they did they did it together: the first sexual curiosity, the first hot glances to a naked body... and since they did all together, they did also the first sexual experience together and with each other. First kiss and eventually first time sex. But unfortunately their parents were not so glad of it and they torn them apart, sending Zach to Boston and Brandon to New York and Zach's parents managed to lose contact. When Brandon meets again Zach, he is a successful journalist, openly gay, and instead Zach is a soon-to-be divorced womanizer... something is happened in Zach's past. Is he ready to leave the past behind and build something new with Brandon?

I always like the story involving teens, and so I'm very happy to find that most of the book is spent telling us the story of Zach and Brandon as young boys. My only regret is that the book is relative short, 170 pages. I said "relative", since this is not a short novel, but since the two characters are so nice, and I like them, I'd like to read more, and I think it'd be interesting to read about Zach and Brandon as adults, and how they manage to be together; I feel like the second part of the story is too fast, and like I'm not just ready to leave Zach and Brandon and their story.

Brandon is apparently the shier boy, he has already realized to be in love with Zach but he fears to reveal his feeling to the other boy, he doesn't want to be reject by Zach. And so he is surprise, but happy, when the other boy makes the first move. But Zach, even if eager to be with Brandon, and always the first to push the sexual boundaries and to experiment with their young bodies, he is also the first to fear the reaction of the people, above all of their parents, but also of strangers. He thinks to be ready to give free rein to his body demands, but he is not ready to openly claim his sexuality. In this aspect, Brandon is much more adult.

After all, probably nor Zach or Brandon were enough grown for what they had. Since they were always together, they arrived too much soon to something that other people find further in their life. And since they were not ready to claim their love, it was easier for their parents to stop them. But as adults, I don't think the situation is much more different: Brandon is still the more balanced between the two, and Zach is still the one struggling with his own sexuality.

Both Zach and Brandon are not "noble" characters. This is one of the characteristic that I always find in Hauser's characters: they are men who mistake and mistake badly, but more often than not, find a justification for their action and with it an absolution; worst, sometime they also continue to behave badly, if this allow them to obtain what they want, sooner and in an easy way. So why I like them so much? maybe since they are not the perfect hero of the fable and they are more similar to the real people, and so to me.

In all the book I found only one thing that didn't ring right to me: the easiness in which Brandon and Zach approach sex, above all anal sex... it was all too simple, all went to right and without problem... don't know maybe it's only a "female" perception, and for two boys things are different.
You¿ll never forget your first¿ Brandon Townsend 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 thatbrought them even closer together¿ They didn¿t anticipate 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.
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< The Boy Next Door > < Forgotten Song > < Crossing Borders > < Diving in Deep > < The Assignment > freaks

< Zero at the Bone > < Horizons > < St. Nacho's > < The Wolfe Proxy > < A Note in the Margin > < Allergies > Jane Seville

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(This book has it all!)

(A ripping good yarn!)

(Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville)

(A Romantic Thriller)

(Great action romance!)

I first came across this book on my kindle iphone and I downloaded the sample and after I read the first couple of chapters I immediately bought it and couldn't put it down! Zero at the Bone has it all. Action, drama, and romance. It was a thrilling read from beginning to end! Very well written unlike some other glbt books. I can't wait for the sequel!
I have to admit, I don't generally go for 'romance', m/m or any other. So it's a good thing that 'Zero at the Bone' isn't 'romance'. From the atmospheric first few lines which had me think of Hammett you head into a thriller, a cross country (US) cavalcade peopled with with a strong, credible main character and a clutch of nicely rounded secondary ones too. With a few lines of inner monologue Seville creates the atmosphere and the basics for the main character of the story. D a conflicted and complex type in the best 'film noir' tradition of flawed heroes. He is soon joined by the second main character, Jack who, on the face of it, is much more simple, Mr nice guy caught up in untoward circumstances. If this were the forties or fifties, he is James Steward to D's Humphrey Bogart. There won't be any spoilers here so I won't go into the details of what happens. However, it is no secret that we are talking about an m/m story so that to say that D and Jack end up on more than just a trip across the States together is no surprise. The way their relationship develops is well written and credible and the sex, when it happens, happens at the right moment and is fully integrated in the storyline - and still hot! As to the thriller, it is fast paced, suspenseful and peopled with some baddies you really like seeing getting their comeuppance. All in all a really good read, fun, hard to put down and sexy on top of it! There is only one thing that I found not entirely satisfying and that it the way D's spoken language is written. I'm not convinced it is a good idea to write out a really thick accent as it happens here. This may be partly because I hear 'him' with European ears and may be less jarring to American ones but to me he sounds not just uneducated but dumb while his inner monologue as well as his actions show that he is far from that. As the story progresses I tried to ignore the 'voice' as much as I could and, because D is such a strong character and the story has such pace, it mostly worked but even towards the end I could be pulled-up short every now and again by that accent.
This is a classical thriller story but with the hand of a woman in the doing, and so it doesn't lack of romantic elements. BUT this doesn't mean that the thriller part is not strong and cold, but it's a neat cold, not bloody and messy like sometime it's if the writer is a man. Sorry, but I'm really convinced that you can recognize the hand of a woman or that of a man, as I'm convinced that there are "limbo" zones where it's almost impossible to distinct. In this case I felt the hand of the woman when the characters got sentimental, when they share their feelings, when their dreams all in all convoy in having a suburb home with a dog in the back garden. Or maybe this is only the ordinary and the thriller author I read in the past lacked in describing it.

Jack is the good guy of the story, probably the only one. He is a surgeon in Baltimore, a divorced man who realized later in his life that he prefers men over women, and he is a so good guy that he managed to get a friendly divorce and rebuilt a life of his own. Now he is quite the workaholic type, even if sometime he indulges in his pleasure. He has not a bad life, and probably with time, he will also improve it, adding the above-mentioned home and dog, and maybe also a partner. But all of this crashed down when Jack witnesses to a murder and he is the only one who can recognize the killers. He is taken into custody waiting for the trial, and relocated in another city... all his life is shattered and he has no hope to regain it.

Enter D, an hit man with a personal code of behavior: he only kills people who deserve it. Since he is the better in the field, he can choose, and what he doesn't want to do he passes on. But this time he can't refuse, he is blackmailed into killing Jack. Only that when D meets Jack, he really isn't able to kill the man, the innocence of the man is clear in his eyes and D is tired to let people die due to an event that isn't their fault. So D turns from enemy to protector, and he appoints himself the only protector of Jack. He kidnaps the man and runs all over the United States with his precious load.

The two men are at the opposite: Jack is open and friendly, without any secret in his past, who he is, is plainly displayed in his face. Jack is not a temperamental man, he is quiet and serene, he is the classical doctor that inspires you trust. Jack is upright and trusting, he doesn't hide his feelings and he is easily hurt since he is so open. But Jack is also unable to hold a grudge and he is the perfect partner for D since he is able to see behind the facade D presents to the world.

D is not cold and aloof as he seems; he doesn't even choose to be who he is, someone else at the beginning of all made that choice for him, and D followed the path it was presented to him. Times ago, D probably had the same dreams of Jack, of an home and a family in some nice places. Then a tragic fate, something he has no guilt of, shattered his world, and D claimed himself an avenger, and in his own particular way, he tries to correct the fate for whom has no guilt. And sometime he kills the one he judges guilty.

Where Jack is gay, and has already made his path out of the closet, D is still in the limbo. He is not actually in denial, since he simply excluded any personal relationship from his life, both with women than men. When he meets Jack, he is more drawn by the innocence of the man than by the man himself. In a way, their relationship is another joke of the destiny, since probably D would have fallen in love of a woman, if she was as innocent as Jack, but since he met Jack, Jack is the object of his love. D becomes Jack's protector, and Jack becomes all D's world, from not feeling anything, D passes to feel even to much, and all his love is poured on Jack.

As I said there is a lot of emotion flowing throughout the novel, and also some very nice sex scenes, but there is also a good level of tension, and the novel is also very long, and so we have also the chance to reach an apex, slowly come down, and suddenly reach another apex, all the time with some new details and events that maintain a fastpacing rhythm.
Seville, Jane. "Zero at the Bone", Dreamspinner Press, 2009.

A Romantic Thriller

Amos Lassen

Surgeon Jack Francisco is put into protective custody after being a witness to a mob hit. He must be kept safe so he can testify. Thus begins "Zero at the Bone", a novel that is a thriller and a romance. Here crime, emotions and romance come together to give us an exciting read.
We have a cold blooded hitman who finds salvation in the arms of the man who is to be his victim and we see the realignment of moral valises which allows complete and total surrender to a feeling that cannot be escaped. We have one man who saves people's lives and another who takes them yet when the two get together, there is such love and passion that nothing else holds any importance.
The plot is full of suspense and the characterizations are wonderful. There is a romantic and conscientious doctor who contrasts with the hitman known as D. The plot teems with emotions as one man examines himself and the struggle he has in learning to love someone besides himself.
When D the hitman is assigned to kill Jack but his conscious won't let him. The two men build a bond that eventually becomes love. Jack sees D as a wounded person who beneath his cold exterior is a really good man and D sees Jack as the man who can help him be once again the kind of man he was before he became involved in a life of crime. They fight not only to stay alive but also for a future together.
Jane Seville gives us quite a story that is wonderfully written and erotic as well.

Zero at the Bone was a m/m romance that I have been wishing someone would write for a long time. It has action, romance and an incredible storyline-who does not LOVE the Hit Man falling in love with his intended victim story? Jane Seville wrote a powerful story. It is perfect. Please read it, I could never describe just how wonderful this story is. I wish other authors would venture out and write different m/m romance stories like Ms. Seville--you know one that actually has a plot to go along with the erotica? So many have good ideas, but the story gets lost in all the sex. This book was just perfect.
After witnessing a mob hit, surgeon Jack Francisco is put into protective custody to keep him safe until he can testify. A hitman known only as D is blackmailed into killing Jack, but when he tracks him down, his weary conscience won't allow him to murder an innocent man. Finding in each other an unlikely ally, Jack and D are soon on the run from shadowy enemies. Forced to work together to survive, the two men forge a bond that ripens into unexpected passion. Jack sees the wounded soul beneath D's cold, detached exterior, and D finds in Jack the person who can help him reclaim the man he once was. As the day of Jack's testimony approaches, he and D find themselves not only fighting for their lives... but also fighting for their future. A future together.
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< Zero at the Bone > < Horizons > < St. Nacho's > < The Wolfe Proxy > < A Note in the Margin > freaks

< Bittersweet > < Winter Study (Anna Pigeon) > < Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) > < Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon, Book 5) > < Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel) > < A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) > Nevada Barr

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(A "different" Sort of Western Novel)

(3 words - depressing! depressing! depressing!)

(Bittersweet)

(More like "bitter, predictable lesbian teenage angst")

(BitterSweet is just that)

I selected this novel because of the author, Nevada Barr. I have never read any of her work but have heard great things about her mystery series involving a park ranger. Supposedly, they are a "different" sort of mystery. Since this was a stand-alone book I thought I'd give it a try. Overall I can say Ms Barr impresses me as a writer. This is basically a western novel but definitely a "different" sort of western.

Ms Barr's word choice is superb. Her descriptions of the locale, the scenery, the very sounds and smells of each scene put the reader right there. Her characters are well rounded and react to their situations as real people would. They change and grow and evolve throughout the book and the reader grows with them. The emotions they go through are so real that we feel it too. Almost too real. The novel itself is bleak as can be and the overall experience was one emotional catastrophe after another. It centers around Imogene, a lady school teacher in rural 1800's Pennsylvania and Sarah, one of her female students. Through a series of circumstances they are forced to move to Reno Nevada and then once again to the middle of nowhere in Nevada where they manage a stagecoach stop. Sarah grows from a weak-kneed wishy-washy girl to a strong willed matron of the West. Along the way is one personal tragedy after another leading to what could be a rather depressing reading experience. If you don't like to read depressing novels then this may not be for you. However, Ms Barr's story-telling ability makes this more of a poignant work than just a novel of tragedy. The main characters overcome (or succomb to, depending on your point of view) rape, spousal abuse, being outcast from their homes, the death of an adopted child, the stigma of lesbian love, and of course the trials and tribulations of being women in the West during that era. But through it all is the experience of being there. It is a story of true love and the willingness to live outside accepted practices...and all of the consequences that are thereby inherent.

I'll be happy to try out her mystery series now and will expect a "different" sort of mystery than the formula series we see so often.
Well written, but tragedy filled and depressing with no emotional or romantic payoffs!
You are right there with the characters through every tragic event that besets them but you feel as though all the moments of joy, emotional closeness or romance all happen in between chapters in a world you the reader are not invited to share in - it is only eluded to in between tragedies.
I really wanted to love this book but but instead felt kind of mad and cheated by the end of it all.
Bittersweet is a huge departure from the Anna Pigeon novels, but a wonderful "bittersweet" window into our past when women had little or no rights at all to anything but marriage. It's a wonderful book about the power of love.
Bittersweet? More like "bitter lesbian teenage angst." I've liked the books about the National Parks and got this hoping for another entertaining read, but the book is terrible.

Perhaps since she's written mysteries for so long, she doesn't know how to not telegraph everything that's going to happen in the story. For example, she begs someone not to give her mailing address to anyone else; guess what?, her archenemy tracks her down. If the proverbial rifle is hung on the wall in the first chapter, it shouldn't come with a sign attached describing its potential uses.

Along those lines, lets not forget the archtypes that all the characters seem to be cast from. Lesbians: kind, compassionate, even-tempered, unselfish, and wise. Heterosexual men: if they don't beat women, then they cow to people who do. Heterosexual women: beat by men, or cowed by men who are afraid of men who beat women. Or in general, if you're not a lesbian, then you suffer from some deep character flaw.

And then there's the angst. The emotional melodrama was so annoying that I actually couldn't bring myself to finish the book. It's layered on so thick that one could mistake it for parady.

Find something else to read.
While good writing is involved here, a very sad read.
It reminds me of how when directors want a lesbian hero in their movies, but then say we have to kill her off though.
Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.
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< Bittersweet > < Winter Study (Anna Pigeon) > < Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) > < Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon, Book 5) > < Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel) > freaks

< A Fountain Filled with Blood: A Mystery > < Out of the Deep I Cry (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) > < To Darkness and to Death (A Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) > < In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) > < All Mortal Flesh: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) > < I Shall Not Want: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) > Julia Spencer-Fleming

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(Really Liked this Book!)

(Murder with a sense of humor)

(A Fountain Filled with Blood)

(Buy the paperback)

(Kindle format)

Really enjoyed this second installment, love Clare and Russ and when they are together fighting crime everything seems right in the world.

This was my first venture into the works of Julia spencer-Fleming and it was totally enjoyable. I plan on reading more of her works when I next want to do some "light or escape" reading.
Her protagonist, Reverand Clare, is a delightful, daring and caring human being. There is a hint of forbidden romance with the local Police Chief and a humorous one-upmanship relationship between the two.
The plot is a little clumsy in places but the theme of hate crimes and the terror they cause make it worthwhile.
This book continues the relationship between Clare and Russ plus being a great mystery. I love these books and am looking forward to the latest in the series.

The story is excellent and the author can be proud of it. She should, however, fire whomever created the Kindle version of her book. This is absolutely the worst Kindle-format book I have ever read. If I hadn't gotten it for free during a recent Amazon promotion, I would be asking for my money back.

What's wrong with it?
* First, the device renders each page so slowly that turning pages is annoying--every page! I've been told that this is a consequence of not using the font that's built into the Kindle firm-ware.
* Second, there's no table of contents, so you can't jump directly to a particular chapter.
* Third, there are no page breaks at the beginning of each chapter. I doubt the publisher would have been happy with this in his print edition.
* Fourth, the text looks like they didn't use a proper font. Rather, you see some broken letters like mis-prints in paper books, while the same letter nearby is perfect. Also, there are some lines where a given word will be out of place.

Don't spend your money on a poorly made Kindle edition. Get the paperback. A Fountain Filled With Blood (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery)
(Kindle format). Interesting book, bad e-formatting. Many format errors, including line spacing and kerning, words falling into the line below - it all makes for a very crowded, tight page. Forced hyphenation means odd hyphens in the middle of lines.

Strong characters, interesting story, although a little more politically/socially heavy-handed than the first book.

Some irritating automotive errors - the Reverend Clare drives a classic car which is worth upwards of $45,000, after complaining in the last novel that she couldn't afford to replace her MG B (which is not a luxurious high performance car, as is claimed in the first novel). There is no such thing as a "four hundred twenty seven liter" car. 427 cc or 4.27 liter, most likely.

Following the stunning success of her debut novel, Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to the Adirondack town of Miller's Kill. It's summer, and a violent attack on a doctor triggers a series of gay-bashing episodes. The Episcopalian priest Clare Fergusson and Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne, who have been carefully avoiding one another, are thrown together. Still fighting their mutual attraction, Russ rudely bars Clare from taking any part in dealing with the violent homophobia, and from contributing to the investigation. As the reluctant partnership continues, closeness becomes inevitable. The pair find that it's hard enough trying to solve a crime with an assortment of valid suspects; it's even harder to tamp down a powerful personal attraction.
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< L. A. Mischief > < L.A. Heat > < Camp Hell: A Psycop Novel > < The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks > < Faith&Fidelity > < The Art of Dying: Partners in Crime #4 > P. A. Brown

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(Well-written but too-short gay erotic novel)

(Great Characters)

(A Must Read)

(L.A. Mischief - a sequel worth reading)

(It's all about characters)

L.A. MISCHIEF
by P. A. Brown
(Cheyenne Publishing, March 2009, $13.99 softcover)

Readers who enjoyed P. A. Brown's earlier "L.A. Heat" will especially want to check this one out, as it continues the lives and rocky relationship of hardnosed Det. David Laine (LAPD) and twinkish computer guru Chris Bellamere. Having decided their lives are just too incompatible, David and Chris hit the gay bars for casual pickups, but their minds/hearts don't stray far from each other. Chris is also busy helping his best friend, Des, who is an emotional mess after the murder of his boyfriend (from the earlier book), while David is investigating a murder of a young man left dismembered in a cemetery as well as a drive-by shooting of a young mother and her daughter.

While it is possible to enjoy this book without having read the first in the series, it would be a lot tougher, since this isn't so much as a sequel as it is a continuation of the couple's exploring whether they can both feel comfortable being together, or if it is simply not meant to be. This self-described "novella" is only 145 pages long, with the rest of the book "fleshed out" (pun intended, due to the erotic content) with two bonus David&Chris short stories, for a total of 161 pages in the book. I would have preferred Ms. Brown develop the original story a bit more, perhaps by expanding their "dating" period a bit, while letting a bit more time and detail also pass in making the solving of the crimes a bit more realistic. But this is well written, including the erotic passages (In her Acknowledgements, Ms. Brown admits her daughter thinks she is "weird" for writing this stuff. I'm amazed she does it so well, without the heavy-handed approach many female writers seem to have in writing gay male erotica), and I give it four handcuffed stars out of five.
Brown, P.A."L.A. Mischief", Cheyenne Publishing, 2009.

Great Characters

Amos Lassen

"L.A. Mischief" is a fast paced story that looks at the relationship of its two major characters, David Eric Laine and Christopher Bellamere. David is a LAPD homicide detective who is stubborn, proud and still has a foot in the closet. He has strong feelings for Chris who is smart, out and proud.
Brown gives us two realistic characters in David and Chris and they rise above the plot. We have one another character here, Des who is their friend.
When the story begins Chris and David have just broken up and Chris is having a hard time and has become a bit self-destructive as he succumbs to drugs, alcohol and sex. David is also having a hard time and he cannot forget Chris. When they meet again there is great tension and it is painful to read about their struggle to reconnect. We want them back together.
The book is sequel to "L.A, Heat" and even though it is not absolutely necessary to have read it, it helps to have done so.

Let me just say up front that I loved LA Mischief by P.A. Brown. I have rarely read a book with two such contrary and stubborn characters. Both flawed and very different from one another.
This story starts after the breakup of Chris and David. You are introduced to Chris as he is falling apart at the seams. He is on a self destructive bent. Drugs, alcohol, and sex are all things that he is using to try and deal with the loss and guilt he feels. David is not doing much better. Having outed himself by a phone call and wanting to fight being gay, he struggles with his needs. He also cannot forget Chris even though they have broken up. When these two met again, the sexual tension is fantastic. The struggle on both of their parts to try and connect is almost painful to read but it draws you in. You want them to succeed in overcoming their flaws and differences.
I admit that I thought at the beginning that I wouldn't like Chris. Having grown up with an alcoholic, I have problems with those who use it as a crutch. I was astounded by my change of heart through the book. By the end, I had fallen for him. Chris made me want him to make it. David was struggling just as much but in a different way. All too aware of the differences between them, he tries to stay away from Chris. The continued back and forth of these two men was a compelling read.
This is a book I would highly recommend to those who like their M/M romance with a little more grit. An excellent read and one that I highly recommend.

I have just finished reading this sequel and I must say that it was worth buying. I fell in love with Christopher and David in "L.A. Heat" and I really enjoyed watching them come together as a couple. I like the way that P.A. Brown writes and I am eagerly awaiting the next title in the series - to be published next year.
The eagerly anticipated sequel to L.A. Heat. You really have to read the first one before this one. This is a sequel with a difference - it's more like an extended epilogue to the first book, in a way, it completes the book L.A Heat.

As a novella, LA Mischief is tight and fast paced. I agree with the other reviewer, the crime itself takes a back seat this time. The author spends more time getting into the characters minds and their emotional struggles.

Readers of LA Heat are already emotionally invested in the major characters David and Chris, the sequel opens with a bang - with the brutal fact that they are not having their "Happily Ever After" after readers would have thought after the first book. And it makes perfect sense, because the David and Chris we knew from the first book are far from perfect, nor were they perfectly matched (in fact, far from it). In this book, they have to overcome a lots of struggles, make compromises. And these are all real conflicts.

It's a great read, P.A. Brown gives a great sense of the place and environment the characters in. I see this as the final piece to build up solid characterization of this series, to path way for further adventures in the series. And I am looking forward to them.
If you have already read L. A. Heat by author P. A. Brown, you have met David Eric Laine and Christopher Bellamere. If not, get ready to make their acquaintance in L. A. Mischief, a fast-paced novella that details the early months of their relationship. David-a LAPD Homicide Detective-is stubborn, proud, and barely out of the closet. As the story opens, he is struggling to find the balance between his intense feelings for Chris, the urges of his newly liberated libido, and the demands of a job where bodies pop up on an all too regular basis. Chris-blonde, smart, out and proud-faces his own set of challenges, including helping his best friend cope with his ongoing grief after the brutal murder of his lover. Life events conspire to bring David and Chris together while at the same time keeping them apart-will they be able to push their way through and find a common ground for happiness and their shared love?
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< L. A. Mischief > < L.A. Heat > < Camp Hell: A Psycop Novel > < The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks > < Faith&Fidelity > freaks

< Comfortable Distance > < Secrets in the Stone > < No Strings > < Warming Trend > < Justice for All > < Blue Skies > Kenna White

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Bella Books
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Dana Robbins needs a vacation from her girlfriend--and her life.

Used to working out her problems in her work, the successful syndicated cartoonist plans a solo summer vacation on a houseboat, hopeful that the separation will resolve her doubts about her future with Shannon. But

Shannon's frequent calls demanding some resolution only heighten her turmoil.

Marine biologist Dr. Jamie Hughes sees Puget Sound in ways few other people do. The hours she spends diving its depths and running her laboratory absorb all of her focus and time. When Jamie meets the obviously distressed Dana at a friend's, she offers her scientific detachment to help Dana sort through her problems. Worrying about Dana's present is easier than examining her own past. It seems like an ideal way to help Dana sort out her future, but as the summer heats up, the distance between Dana and Jamie is anything but comfortable.

Kenna White (Romancing the Zone, Braggin' Rights) explores unexpected passion, unexplored possibilities and unforeseen complications in this novel of summer on Puget Sound.
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< Comfortable Distance > < Secrets in the Stone > < No Strings > < Warming Trend > < Justice for All > freaks

< GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens > < Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter > < Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence > < The New Gay Teenager (Adolescent Lives) > < Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies > < Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians&Gays Talk About Their Experiences > Kelly Huegel

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Free Spirit Publishing
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(Strongly Recommened...)

(Great Resource)

(Great for teens!)

(Dealing with Teens? Get this!)

(wonderful book)
This book serves as a guide to self-understanding and the understaning of GLBTQ lifestyles. This book provides essential elements on the cause and effects. It also gives information on gay orginazations and counseling agents for those whom stuggle with homophobic problems. This book touches on scientific priciples and possible causes of the GBLTQ life style. Highly recommened. I will nick name the book, "THE GAY BIBLE". This book is a great tool for new-comers.
I work at a high school and the teenagers I work with love this book! I highly recommend it for any LGBTQ teen as well as for any parent or teacher/counselor working with young people.
This is an awesome book. I bought several that I use with a group of high school students. It's very informative and easy to read. Also has step-by-step suggestions for coping with issues such as homophobia, harassment, and coming out. An invaluable resource.
This book is a must-have for any Library shelf that serves teens. It is written in a style appealing to teens and includes short, one or two page summaries of ways to cope with the many issues teens face when questioning their sexuality. It also provides excellent, current resources for teens, from crisis lines to 'safe' (moderated) chat sites. I especially enjoyed the section dealing with 'coming out' to parents and family. It provided experiences from other teens who have (the good, the bad, and the ugly), and also possible responses parents might have when a teen tells them he/she is gay. In addition, it listed possible, respectful ways to respond to less-than-accepting parents. A fantastic compilation of stories, insights, and resources for teens.
i remember being a pre-teen, leafing through many books written for young women that followed an "our bodies ourselves" format. these books were ok, but never what i was really looking for. i didn't want information on how to ask boys to dance or how to apply lipstick- i wondered where the chapters entitled "when you don't feel like the rest or the girls" or "but what if i don't like boys?" were.
what a great help it would have been to have this book! the format is "hip" but not patronizing. while this book affirms the importance of pride and self-respect in queer or questioning young people, it also devotes pages to the concerns and dangers many queer teens face (safe sex, how to begin dating, facing intolerance). transgender issues and stories have their own chapter, as do homophobia and coming out. descriptive paragraphs are broken up by small autobiographical blurbs by young people describing their experiences with the topic at hand, and by smaller essays.
this book is a great place to begin for youth who are GLBTQ, questioning, or who would like to better understand their queer peers and friends.
Are you queer or questioning? If you are, this book is for you. Do you know someone who might be queer or questioning? If so, this book is for you, too. Or are you someone who just wants to learn more about what it's like to be queer or questioning? This book is a great place to begin. Discovering that you, or someone you love, might be GLBTQ is a revelation. Accepting it is a process. One thing that can help that process is information. This book can't answer all of your questions or counter all of the misinformation, misconceptions, myths, half-truths, and outright lies you might have heard about being GLBTQ, but it's a start.
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< GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens > < Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter > < Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence > < The New Gay Teenager (Adolescent Lives) > < Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies > freaks

< Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives > < Women and The American Experience, A Concise History > < Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist > < Major Problems in American Women's History (Major Problems in American History) > < Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics > < Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition > Gwyn Kirk,Margo Okazawa-Rey

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McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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(Great Book)
This book came fast and it looked like a new book. I would buy from this person again.
This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies by examining the diversity of U.S. women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age, and within a global context. The chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic and include explanations of key concepts and ideas, statistical information, and references to the subsequent reading selections. Questions to frame your reading follow the introductory sections and precede the readings, providing an easy transition for the student.
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< Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives > < Women and The American Experience, A Concise History > < Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist > < Major Problems in American Women's History (Major Problems in American History) > < Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics > freaks

< Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories > < Surfer Boys: Gay Erotic Stories > < Bears > < The Assignment > < Backdraft: Fireman Erotica > < Best Gay Erotica 2009 >

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Cleis Press
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(The Older Man)
Labonte, Richard. "Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories", Cleis Press, 2009.

The Older Man

Amos Lassen

Some gay men find older men sexy and attractive. Many a college student has erotic thoughts about his professor as he sits in a lecture hall and others find something extremely sensuous about the mature man. Richard Labonte has compiled an anthology about guys that lust for older men and has given it the appropriate title of "Daddies".
In gay life the figure of the rough and hunky authoritarian older man has been an icon even more so than the young twink. The daddy character is in control and knows who he is--his hand shake is firm and his love making is rough and sensuous. The stories in this collection show the bonds between the young gay man and the older experienced daddy. There are the youngsters that lust for the silver foxes and there are the daddies that yearn for the young.
These stories have something for everyone. Some are full of play while others are about kinky sex. There is S/M and there is role playing and there is hot sex in every story. Fifteen stories comprise the anthology with an introduction by Labonte. Authors include Shaun Levin, Dale Chase, Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Barry Alexander and others. The stories sizzle as they explore the world of older gay man and I felt like saying "woof" to each one.

One of the most powerful icons for gay men is the hunky, rough-hewn, authoritative daddy figure, who can offer hot kisses, warm embraces, and a firm hand with equal intensity. This collection of erotic stories reveals the unique sexual and emotional bonds between these older daddies and younger gay men: from twinks hankering for silver foxes to men with the meat of years on their bones mentoring spunky lads just coming out. Everything goes in these stories, from the sexually playful to the wistfully romantic, to hardcore S/M, to role playing, to extreme kink. Written by such masters of the genre as Doug Harrison, Jeff Mann, Xan West, Barry Alexander, Dale Chase, Shaun Levin, and more, these sizzling stories explore the world of men who may differ in age but have the same thing on their mind.

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< Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories > < Surfer Boys: Gay Erotic Stories > < Bears > < The Assignment > < Backdraft: Fireman Erotica > freaks

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