LGBTQ is the name of the game in My Goodreads Reviews Part 56! Together with other genres like thrillers, suspense, horror, YA, coming of age, historical and science fiction.
Favorite Son (The Provincetown Series Book 1), Until September, Slaughterhouse-Five, Something Like Summer (Something Like, #1), Snow Boys, Big Gay Wedding, The City of Mirrors, Skater Boy, Pride High: Book 1 – Red, Billy Summers
What a wonderful surprise! This story is written and crafted according to my taste. A slow-burn romance and literary fiction unlike other M M romance stories I’ve read. This makes it special, unique, stand out. It has character; it has depth, it’s intelligent, and it’s emotional enough. This is serious writing. I’m in love with Provincetown!
Completely enjoyed it. Its warmth, its happiness, its sadness, its summer. Its protagonists who made me feel their story as they lived it. I highly recommend Until September!
I applaud the author for his humanitarian message. More books with such messages are needed in the world literature. However, I am afraid my praises end here. I'll take my chances and risk the wrath of the literary world and critics because I don’t understand what makes this confusing book so popular. Is being boring, difficult to read and incomprehensible the recipe to become a classic? What about the passion, emotion, the beauty of the words, sentences, and writing? Slaughterhouse-Five is narrated in a documentary voice devoid of emotions. And emotions are important, emotions are everything if we want to sympathize and empathize with protagonists. I wish I have better spent my time on some other book I would much more enjoy reading. My fault for being seduced by amazingly written blurb which promised more than the book delivered. So it goes.
Something Like Summer is something I like.
Snow Boys is a seemingly light read which deals with hard family issues and all the challenges and traumas of coming out. I applaud the author for not showing mercy to his young protagonists and for realistically painting things as they are.
A lovely literary jewel. Genuine, touching, humorous, heart-wrenching, deep emotion and wisdom of living. Byron Lane knows how to write art.
Maybe it was because a long time ago I’ve read The Passage and The Twelve that the first thirty percent of the third book from The Passage Trilogy was unexpectedly and surprisingly boring to me. I was struggling with it, wondering and asking myself what did I like so much about The Passage and The Twelve. And then, suddenly, like someone turned the light (or darkness) on, The City of Mirrors became the part of the trilogy I loved so much. From that moment on until the very end, it was a pure joy, thrill, excitement, suspense, and beautiful tenderness. All disappointment forgotten, The City of Mirrors is a mirrored image of the first two books in The Passage Trilogy. Amyzing.
Fascinatingly strong and realistic characters, a fast page-turning plot. More ups and downs alternating through the story than flips, shove-its, ollies, nollies, manuals, and other tricks combining a line. Extra points for skateboarding in Nerada’s successful debut because skateboarding is not a crime!
I haven’t read yet a book by Jay Bell I didn’t like. This also goes for Red, the book one in Pride High series. It’s a fantastic collage of queer teenagers who try to figure out themselves and who they love. A story full of great characters with a deeper message. Looking forward to moving on to book two!
Not the typical Stephen King, but I love and appreciate the depth of his emotion in Billy Summers.
Happy reading!
BJ
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