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Gap Year Musketeer. Introductory Price $2.99

Gap Year Musketeer is a comic coming-of-age novel about a nineteen-year-old exiled to South Florida for a “productive” gap year that immediately becomes anything but.

Miles arrives without a car, a plan, or much evidence that adulthood is going to suit him. He finds himself living with his difficult locksmith grandfather, stumbling into a strange little found family, falling hard for the neighbor across the street, and slowly turning South Florida into his own chaotic domain.

It’s gay, funny, a little messy, emotionally sincere, and built around friendship, chosen family, first freedom, bad decisions, and the terrifying possibility of becoming useful.

Think: queer coming-of-age with comic voice, South Beach gravity, neighborhood oddballs, romantic tension, and a narrator who cannot stop talking long enough to avoid consequences.

Hey! Pretty specific thing I am searching for, not sure if it exists… Currently reading ’Never stay gone’ by Tal Bauer and although I love his books and his style I’d like to read something even more focused on the crime solving, but still keep the ‘crime solving duo gay romance’.

- Modern day (or end of 20th century but no victorian era please)

- More plot than smut (open door scenes are fine as long as they aren’t 1/2 of the book)

- Male author if possible

- The plot makes sense, has research behind it…

- big plus if it’s a series :)

Hi everyone!

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If you enjoy romance, suspense, and meaningful choices, we'd love for you to give it a try.

It would mean the world to us (:

I wish I could find a free place that tell some type of current data of book readers. Sure, I found out that the area I am in are mostly women, told me a basic age group.

But that doesn't tell me what they are looking for in a book. For example, would they prefer a gay romance to have only guy characters? If it was a gangster book, does the leader have to be gay? Is interracial preferred?

Comments?

Guys… I am really enjoying this book. Started it yesterday and devoured the first two-thirds in one sitting. (I am on vacation by the water so this was easy.) I can’t wait to finish—though I’m frightened I’ll be yearning hard for the second book to come out. I read Thirty Love earlier this summer and though it is striking how similar they are (the protagonist in Open loves Gilmore Girls, the protagonist in Thirty loves Golden Girls), it turns out I am strictly nonmonogamous when it comes to mainstream gay tennis romance. Having read HR (before the revolution) and long contemplated the gender politics of MM romance authorship, I think both books are successful at speaking to and from an authentic Gay experience—The Open Era perhaps slightly more so. Has anyone else read this yet? What are your thoughts!

Hi everyone, I’ve just been getting into queer books this last year and have enjoyed Song of Achilles, Young Mungo and I’m currently enjoying Bath Haus

I’ve got a festival coming up and would love a good queer thriller to read in between the dancing when I’m sat in a field with little else to do!

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