The Tucker Springs, Colorado, novels are unique in that they feature a variety of authors who provide engaging stories, all of which highlight how opposites attract. For example, in Second Hand, a Hispanic pawn shop owner and a jilted straight guy, who’s getting rid of his fiancée’s things, mesh. In Dirty Laundry, a nerd entomology…
Painful pasts seem to be the staple of romance literature. Mopping up the pain and putting protagonists on a newer, happier track make up the plotlines of a long line of memorable books. This change of path from Maxfield’s St. Nacho’s series and a slew of stand-alones marks the first of the Brothers Grime series….
If the love of your teenage life outs you to save himself from being outed and ostracized, would you ever be able to forgive him—even if he apologized over and over again, but never owned up publicly to what he did? That’s the question at the heart of Tenino’s second in the Theta Alpha Gamma…
How we see our lives is really just a collection of impressions seen from our viewpoint, not how events actually unfold. Usually we don’t get a chance to explore how right or wrong our impressions are, but go through the years believing what we think happened is true. But what if our impressions are skewed?…
Have you ever read that book that was completely different from what you expected? This was that book for me. It stayed pretty true to the book description, but it was still not what I thought it would be. Gallienus, former soldier and current gate guard for the grand city of Constantinople, feels stuck in…
Even though I played while I was growing up, I’ve never been a real tennis fan. Something about having objects hurling toward me at great speed put me off the sport. Granger, however, makes tennis sound fun and exciting while game after game are couched in a gentle romance. Since he was a teen drooling…
I really wanted to like this book because it touches on a lot of themes that warm my heart. It’s about family, and communication, and two very different people who should fill each other’s fundamental needs. But the main characters were so horribly written that I had to wonder why the writer was straining so…
There are times when a story needs to be wrapped up, when there are too many loose ends floating around, and nothing makes sense. There are other times, though, where at the end of the book you are left wondering, and it is a good thing. Not everything is finished, and it doesn’t always need…
What’s it like living until you’re twenty-one and in college feeling like something is wrong with your life, but not being able to put a finger on what it is? For some gay men, evidently, this is a state of being that occurs when they just go along with the flow, never questioning the disquiet…
The St. Nacho’s gay series is set in a small coastal California town where a group of interesting individuals live and for the most part get along peacefully. While there’s a little prejudice and bias, the laid-back community mostly accepts any and all who settle there. In Maxfield’s Jacob’s Ladder, Yasha (AKA Jake) and his…
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