Gfy romance books
There’s an important, ongoing discussion in Romancelandia about “Gay for You” books. That is, M/M romances where one or more of the main characters has never been attracted to men before. But things happen and our hero makes an exception for his one true love.
Quite reasonably, this particular trope causes a lot of frustration for bisexual people (among others) in the romance community, because it is, among other things, bi-erasing. Invariably, a bisexual author will post about their feelings on this subject and other authors will then weigh in. When it gets messy isn’t around disagreement between queer authors on this subject (it exists), but when straight authors tell bisexual authors how they should feel about this trope. (In general, telling people how to feel about things is how stuff goes wrong, but so it goes).
This post is not about my and Erin’s opinion on this trope as bisexual authors or anything else (lots of people have already written great think pieces on this we don’t need to replicate). Rather, we just want to clarify what our
Yesterday, a Facebook friend made a post about the “Gay For You” or “GFY” trope popular with readers. The trope is sheer garbage: a character is straight as an arrow, never questioning their sexuality for a moment or even aggressively asserting their straightness. Then they face “The One”, the sentimental love interest. The straight protagonist knows, deep, immersive down, that this is their One True Love™, and that love can overcome any odds. Even if that odd is that one of them is straight and the other is their similar gender. “It’s okay,” the trope reassures us. “He’s not really gay. He’s just gay for him.”
This is seen most often in M/M fiction. M/M romance is written by people of all genders, but within the romance community it’s no secret that women are the target audience. Romance readers in general are voracious, but M/M readers feel to have a voracity and budget all their own. At a recent conference, I met a woman who said she reads M/M exclusively, and that she buys up to a hundred books a mon
Alex by S.M. Shade
Blurb: Ninety- two days. Thirteen weeks. That’s how long it’s been since I lost my love, my best confidant. It’s been everything I can do to drag myself out of bed and get back to work, but I grasp Cooper would want me to move on. I think he’d even be happy if he knew who I want to move on with. The target of my affection, though, may not be so thrilled about my choice.
He’s straight. Or he thinks he is.
A womanizer of the worst kind with a face and body that keeps a steady stream of willing women at his door, he seems happy to work his way through the entire female population. But there’s no mistaking the way he looks at me when he thinks I’m not paying attention.
One way or another, I’ll show him what he really wants.
This is publication four of The Impressive Back Series, but can also be read as a standalone novel.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I quite enjoyed reading Alex.
Unsaid by Avery Aster Kindle Edition, 530 pages Published September 1st 2015
Blurb: Chelsea
3.75*
Que libro mas sexy!!!
Crossroads es la historia de Nick & Bryce, dos caramelos heterosexuales que se conocen gracias a que comparten el patio trasero (jijiji) de sus nuevas casas.
La amistad, que surge instantáneamente, se va fortaleciendo con noches de largas charlas y tiempos compartidos. Inevitablemente se van involucrando en la vida del otro de una manera muy instinctive. hasta que se genera ESA tensión sexual y ahí empieza el baile.
Me encantó este libro, tiene sexo, amor, drama familiar y HEA justo lo que estaba buscando, eso si me quedaron algunas cosas picando como por ejemplo la ligereza de Bryce en asumir que le gustan los machos. De un minuto al otro se desvive por los abdominales y pelos del pecho de Nick. Muy rápido. Y la verdad que hubieron algunas frases un poco cliché, pero se lo perdonamos por las tremendas escenas de sexo que nos escribió Riley Hart.
“It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?”