Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon

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Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


We interrupt this flow of childhood nostalgia rereads to bring you some gay porn -- excuse me, "manlove."

This is the one about the two undercover LEO's in a mob war and one of them calls the other -- I swear to God, I am not kidding about this -- gatito and there's lots of sexual dominance and tragedy and eventually some really dubious disability content. There is an exponentially higher component of batshittery than I usually expect out of Josh Lanyon, but you know, for that long stretch from 2 to 5 a.m. when there's just absolutely no way I'm getting to sleep, I was really down with that. In the light of day . . . yikes.


The thing with the limes and the net bags? That wasn't sexy, not even at 4:30 in the morning.




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Comments

[cyphomandra]

Oh, yes, this was atrocious! I hit the phrase "palsied channel" in the sex scene in chapter 8, and spent a fair bit of time after that wondering why anyone would consider it a good writing choice.

(I don't know if you need recs? If so, I really enjoyed Irregulars, a shared-world m/m novella collection wherein a secret police force solve supernatural (goblins, fairies, a Mexican-based mythos etc) crimes in contemporary settings. One of the 4 stories is by Josh Lanyon, although I actually liked the others better)