Good boy on boy books
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maderrSince Sammie, I, and various others are always bitching about the general suckage of what is being published these days.
Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg is by and far my top favorite slash book. It's a cool retelling of a story I generally dislike, the men are men and insanely hot, and I am utterly fucking furious he's wasting time with Vamypricon and not writing me more Mordred!!!! GIVE BOOK NOW CLEGG.
Ransom by Lee Rowan took me by surprise. The greatest part about this book? It takes a premise that usually sucks hardcore and does it the way it should be done. It is awesome. I love this book. I bought it thinking that like so many others it would probably suck. It wound up kicking ass. I think I am safe in saying that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skylark97 and my darling jolena agree with me. If you're going to buy a slash book, I would go with this one. It's solid, the chars are cool, and the sex when it gets to that point is hot and even cute.
The Back Passage by James Lear is about twenty kinds of hiliarious. The main char is such a boyslut, but he's cute and funny and tries so very hard to be a sherlock holmes. It's an endearing book, though the number of times he gets laid could rival some of my erotica ebooks. It works, though. The story doesn't take itself seriously at all and that's the best part of it.
The Price of Temptation and Discreet Young Gentlemen by M.J. Pearson were another surprise. The covers are NWS at all, but the stories are solid. I liked the second one more than the first, but I'm definitely pleased I have both (or had, I think Beej has one and I just send Sammikins the other...my porn collections vanish as soon as I get them, I swear. I should probably just buy all of these again. Start buying two of everyting, one for the shelves and one for the mail, hee). Anyway, her books can't be taken out in public for the atrocious covers but the content is solid. Regency boy love, amusingly and cutely told, what is not to adore?
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. You can't go wrong with his stuff. He's cute and sweet. Skylark is still a fellow fangirl, I think. I'm not usually for contemp stuff - there are some good ones out there, speaking of Skylark she has sent me some I need to return - but Levithan's stuff I do like. It treads close to preachy/lecturing, but never quite hits that. He's written a few books by now, but BMB will always be my fav.
Geography Club and The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger are both cute books. They're more contemp stuff I don't often read, but Sky sent them to me and I liked them both. Highschool kids learning who they are, how to manage, growing up, screwing up, and most importantly things ending well. So hard to find in contemp stuff. I get so sick of people dying, breaking up, blah blah blah.
Latter Days by C.Jay Cox and T. Fabris is solid as both book and movie. I have both, am not sorry to own them. They're angsty, cute, and do the whole religion/self conflict without being annoying.
In the erotica section, these three aren't bad. Of the torquere books I've read, they're on the supremely short list of books that did not disappoint. Sadly, of that list, they're the only ones in print. I have both eformats and the bound versions, if anyone wants to gank or borrow (and I really wish they'd put the Rossi books out in print *sigh*). An Agreement Among Gentlmen by Chris Owen is a hot and pretty threesome, eventually. Historical Obsessions is a set of stories, all of them fine though Gentleman of Substance is my favorite. Rain and Whiskey by B.A. Tortuga is another contemp, this time a beach bum and a former football player. After gettng burned reading the Jumping sequel, I flat out refuse to buy any more sequels to my favorites. But for any that might care, R & W does have a sequel. I have a bunch of torquere ebooks, and a few more in print, but these are the ones I most often reread.
Speaking of Torquere ebooks, Scarlet and the White Wolf and Mariner's Luck by Kirby Crow are both excellent books. I wish T would put out more stuff like this. Maybe I'm too picky, but I love this is a full on story and that I care about the characters and am dying to know how all will finally play out. It's not as awesome and splendid and hot as Mordred, but if they put it in print I would buy. Def looking forward to the third one.
Torquere in general is a mixed bag. I've read nearly everything they've put out, and there is some I love, some I hate, some I really hate because they had so much potential and totally let me down. If there's one you wonder about, just ask. I'd lay'em all out but this post would go on forever.
Lastly, Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford was another gamble I took. It's not too bad -- various chars, which I like, and the main pairing is a bartender and a priest. Pretty good, esp. for a contemp novel.
That's all for now, I think.
Sammikins yells at me for buying crap, and I don't deny I deserved to be yelled at, but if I wasn't willing to buy crap I wouldn't have found half of these were actually worth something.
On an end note, if you're going to spend money, my three top recs are Mordred, Ransom, and Discreet Young Gentlemen.
Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg is by and far my top favorite slash book. It's a cool retelling of a story I generally dislike, the men are men and insanely hot, and I am utterly fucking furious he's wasting time with Vamypricon and not writing me more Mordred!!!! GIVE BOOK NOW CLEGG.
Ransom by Lee Rowan took me by surprise. The greatest part about this book? It takes a premise that usually sucks hardcore and does it the way it should be done. It is awesome. I love this book. I bought it thinking that like so many others it would probably suck. It wound up kicking ass. I think I am safe in saying that
skylark97 and my darling jolena agree with me. If you're going to buy a slash book, I would go with this one. It's solid, the chars are cool, and the sex when it gets to that point is hot and even cute.The Back Passage by James Lear is about twenty kinds of hiliarious. The main char is such a boyslut, but he's cute and funny and tries so very hard to be a sherlock holmes. It's an endearing book, though the number of times he gets laid could rival some of my erotica ebooks. It works, though. The story doesn't take itself seriously at all and that's the best part of it.
The Price of Temptation and Discreet Young Gentlemen by M.J. Pearson were another surprise. The covers are NWS at all, but the stories are solid. I liked the second one more than the first, but I'm definitely pleased I have both (or had, I think Beej has one and I just send Sammikins the other...my porn collections vanish as soon as I get them, I swear. I should probably just buy all of these again. Start buying two of everyting, one for the shelves and one for the mail, hee). Anyway, her books can't be taken out in public for the atrocious covers but the content is solid. Regency boy love, amusingly and cutely told, what is not to adore?
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. You can't go wrong with his stuff. He's cute and sweet. Skylark is still a fellow fangirl, I think. I'm not usually for contemp stuff - there are some good ones out there, speaking of Skylark she has sent me some I need to return - but Levithan's stuff I do like. It treads close to preachy/lecturing, but never quite hits that. He's written a few books by now, but BMB will always be my fav.
Geography Club and The Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger are both cute books. They're more contemp stuff I don't often read, but Sky sent them to me and I liked them both. Highschool kids learning who they are, how to manage, growing up, screwing up, and most importantly things ending well. So hard to find in contemp stuff. I get so sick of people dying, breaking up, blah blah blah.
Latter Days by C.Jay Cox and T. Fabris is solid as both book and movie. I have both, am not sorry to own them. They're angsty, cute, and do the whole religion/self conflict without being annoying.
In the erotica section, these three aren't bad. Of the torquere books I've read, they're on the supremely short list of books that did not disappoint. Sadly, of that list, they're the only ones in print. I have both eformats and the bound versions, if anyone wants to gank or borrow (and I really wish they'd put the Rossi books out in print *sigh*). An Agreement Among Gentlmen by Chris Owen is a hot and pretty threesome, eventually. Historical Obsessions is a set of stories, all of them fine though Gentleman of Substance is my favorite. Rain and Whiskey by B.A. Tortuga is another contemp, this time a beach bum and a former football player. After gettng burned reading the Jumping sequel, I flat out refuse to buy any more sequels to my favorites. But for any that might care, R & W does have a sequel. I have a bunch of torquere ebooks, and a few more in print, but these are the ones I most often reread.
Speaking of Torquere ebooks, Scarlet and the White Wolf and Mariner's Luck by Kirby Crow are both excellent books. I wish T would put out more stuff like this. Maybe I'm too picky, but I love this is a full on story and that I care about the characters and am dying to know how all will finally play out. It's not as awesome and splendid and hot as Mordred, but if they put it in print I would buy. Def looking forward to the third one.
Torquere in general is a mixed bag. I've read nearly everything they've put out, and there is some I love, some I hate, some I really hate because they had so much potential and totally let me down. If there's one you wonder about, just ask. I'd lay'em all out but this post would go on forever.
Lastly, Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford was another gamble I took. It's not too bad -- various chars, which I like, and the main pairing is a bartender and a priest. Pretty good, esp. for a contemp novel.
That's all for now, I think.
Sammikins yells at me for buying crap, and I don't deny I deserved to be yelled at, but if I wasn't willing to buy crap I wouldn't have found half of these were actually worth something.
On an end note, if you're going to spend money, my three top recs are Mordred, Ransom, and Discreet Young Gentlemen.
