Stars & Stripes by Abigail Roux

[lightreads]

Stars & Stripes by Abigail Roux

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Somethingth book in this series about the FBI partners who do the things FBI partners do – solve crime and bang a lot. I seem to read this series when I’m traveling, and I’ve gotta say, on a long transatlantic red-eye with no sleep in sight? Nothing better.

I’m really ridiculously fond of these guys, but above and beyond that, here’s something you don’t see every day. And by “every day” I mean in most of the lgbt fiction out there. See, these guys, they have lots of sex, right? But somehow – get ready for this, it’s crazy – somehow their entire relationship dynamic doesn’t turn on who is getting penetrated. I know! I mean, what they want in bed changes over time with the changes in their relationship and circumstances and their moods. And who is sticking it to whom at any given moment has nothing to do with who is holding the upper hand emotionally, or who is calling the shots on important relationship questions.

In fact, it’s more like who is calling the shots also changes with the circumstances, and with need. Almost like these are two guys who think of each other as equals, and who pass the lead back and forth as needed and pick up each other’s slack and have a dynamic, healthy partnership! Just as if who is getting penetrated isn’t, like, the definitional framework by which they construct their personalities!

It’s weird.




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Comments

[cyprinella]

And this is the review that finally gets me off my ass and makes me buy the first book in the series. :D

[lightreads]

Enjoy. The first one is actually my least favorite by far, but I kept going for some reason, and round about the third I started going all :DDDDDD everywhere.