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…
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…
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…
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…
After reading one of Z. A. Maxfields’s St. Nacho’s novels, I wondered what else the author had written and was surprised to find a paranormal gay story in the mix. My curiosity getting the better of me, I dove in. Nineteen-year-old piano virtuoso Fitz has spent his life placating his stage mother with continual practice…
Novellas are usually hit or miss, especially when it comes to romance. The problem all boils down to their length – with something so short, can we really get our full HEA? Brandon Marcus is smart. As in ridiculously so. As a professor, he is able to both teach (something he seems to really enjoy)…