Ethan in Gold by Amy Lane
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lightreadsEthan in Gold
3/5. M/M. Apparently this is one in a series about gay porn actors which, now that I think about it, is Amy Lane’s jam. Hot guys banging each other a lot, with an emphasis on how they are all deeply unprivileged or traumatized in order to end up where they are, even if they feel good and sex positive about making porn. This one is about the guy who gets into it because he’s touch-starved, and the cute guy he meets at PetSmart. If you like two people getting together while a lot of really hard stuff happens to them and around them, that is what she writes.
And I’ll give her this: she brings an earthy realness to romance. At one point these guys have to have the ‘yeah, you grew up having conversations with people while they were in the bathroom, didn’t you? Yeah, no, I do not do that,’ conversation, which I do not believe I’ve ever seen in a romance novel before, but that was hilarious.
Content notes: Non-graphic child sexual abuse, abusive parents, various offscreen violence and mental illness, chronic illness, sibling death.
3/5. M/M. Apparently this is one in a series about gay porn actors which, now that I think about it, is Amy Lane’s jam. Hot guys banging each other a lot, with an emphasis on how they are all deeply unprivileged or traumatized in order to end up where they are, even if they feel good and sex positive about making porn. This one is about the guy who gets into it because he’s touch-starved, and the cute guy he meets at PetSmart. If you like two people getting together while a lot of really hard stuff happens to them and around them, that is what she writes.
And I’ll give her this: she brings an earthy realness to romance. At one point these guys have to have the ‘yeah, you grew up having conversations with people while they were in the bathroom, didn’t you? Yeah, no, I do not do that,’ conversation, which I do not believe I’ve ever seen in a romance novel before, but that was hilarious.
Content notes: Non-graphic child sexual abuse, abusive parents, various offscreen violence and mental illness, chronic illness, sibling death.