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Since it's pride month (happy Pride y'all!), I'm going to use that as an excuse to talk about some of my fave queer romances; I've taken mercy on you and limited myself to three entries. (I have a lot of fave queer books. More than I have fave straight books. Why? Who knows!)
Game Misconduct by Ari Baran
The basic premise of this book is "two hockey players are horny for each other and mad about it," and it delivers on that premise spectacularly. I love it when a book promises something a little outrageous and then goes for it. (This book goes for it.) Mike and Danny are both the kind of hockey players whose job is to beat up other hockey players and they play on rival teams; thus, they beat each other up. They keep beating each other up after they start kissing because it turns out they're into that sort of thing. It's all about the person you can't stand also being the one who truly gets you and how terrible/wonderful that is, and it's about using your anger as a shield because otherwise you might have too many emotions, and it's about moving on into the void of the unknown and eventually being cool with it.
Anyway it's very good and you should read it, the end.
NOTE: please mind the trigger warnings!
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
I think Cat is in her midcentury era and I am Here For It. We Could Be So Good and Game Misconduct are basically opposite books; this one's about soup as a love language, falling for your best friend, figuring out that you've fallen for your best friend, and folding lots of laundry instead of having feelings. And lasagna. Oh, and constructing a life and space for yourself as a queer person in New York City in 1960.
It made me feel squishy inside; also, Andy and his ADHD are devastatingly relatable.
The Society of Gentlemen Series by KJ Charles
I feel like I never shut up about KJ Charles, but I'm not sorry and do not plan to change my ways.
Society of Gentlemen is, at present, my favorite romance series; the third book (A Gentleman's Position) is currently my favorite romance novel and has been since I read it. I like these books so much that I barely know how to talk about them. They're full of delicious pining and hard-won happy endings and complicated people working within a very restrictive society and finding love anyway. It's KJ Charles, so there's also lots of plot and intrigue and machinations amongst all the kissing.
It's three novels and a novella. Yes, you should read the novella; trust me on this. Yes, you need to read the whole series in order, otherwise it won't make any sense. I'll also say that book one is really good, but books two and three are basically transcendent. I re-read these by accident last weekend and it ruined my brain for a day or two even though I've already read them twenty times.
Happy reading! Tune in again next month when I recommend buying a fancy cherry pitter or something, probably.
Love,
Roxie
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