Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon

[lightreads]

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]

Arrgh. I forgot to ask what format you read in. All of the above except Ginn Hale have been ebooks; the Ginn Hales I read in hardcopy. If you want any of the ebooks and are up for loans, I'm happy to email you copies. (I may have got this completely wrong, but do you read via a screen reader? I presume that works better with ebooks than hardcopy but am totally guessing)

[lightreads]

Yep, I'm all about the ebooks. The less proprietary the format the better, but it's not like you can't convert pretty much anything to rtf or html these days. I might hit you up for some of these, though a friend of mine has just been circulating an enormous lending library, and I suspect most things you listed are in there somewhere. (And in fact, if there's anything in particular you want to find, just ask me, because there's a decent bet I have it).

Thanks for the recs. I want to try Cullanin again -- I just went off about Nowhere Ranch in a review, which is not even so much about the book itself. It just hit me at the wrong time. I've also tried some of Price's Psycop stuff, though you're right about the first one being insubstantial and the sex not the greatest. That's what made me drop the series in the beginning, though you're not the first to tell me I should go back. I am a sucker for extended, well-developed background casts, so there's that.

I also just tried Amy Lane. Making Promises hit a lot of my buttons, but yep, quite unreasonably oversweet in places.

I'm reading Cut and Run and sequels on several different recs, and mostly enjoying them, as long as I unplug from all my knowledge of actual american federal law enforcement, because ahahahaha....no.