Hot Sauce by Scott & Scott (Pomfret and Whittier) lives up to their new genre’s "romentics" hype. Hot Sauce is hot, steamy, romantic, and sappy but it is also fun and pure fluff.
My biggest complaint is the same as with so many other gay novels; the men are TOO hot, TOO perfect, TOO huge, and TOO rich. Can’t anyone find a winning formula for a gay novel that keeps the readers’ attention despite the fact that just maybe the men have average cocks, and are everyday guys who are madly in love and live in dumpy apartments with messy cat-litter boxes and dishes in the sink? I know, I know. . . nobody wants to read about their own lives, but surely if Troy Boston and Brad Drake, the two central figures in Scott & Scotts novel, didn’t have superbly hard bodies and huge dicks, we could still identify with their success and their love and their insecurities and the bitchy mother/mother-in-law and even with the ass-swipe who tries to break up their love affair.
OK, I know that Scott & Scott’s goal was to bring good gay romance to the genre and believe you me, they’ve definitely done just that. Their writing is smooth, natural and readable and when they get steamy these two have few rivals. Frankly, this book is definitely NSFYM (not suitable for your mother) – well at least not my mother.
If you need a light, well-written, lay-by-the-pool, woody-producing fantasy, this one will do it for you. I’m panting just waiting for the next installment of a Scott & Scott "romentic"!
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a list of recs for the queer bibliophile:
TROLL by Johanna Sinisalo, FROM BLUE TO BLACK by Joel Lane, KING OF CATS by Blake Fraina, THE FIRST VERSE by Barry McCrea, THE DARK PAINTINGS by Hugh Fleetwood, GLOVEPUPPET by Neil Drinnan, AFTER NIRVANA by Lee Williams, THE WATERS OF THIRST by Adam Mars-Jones, MINIONS OF THE MOON by Richard Bowes, THROUGH IT CAME BRIGHT COLORS by Trebor Healey, LUST, OR NO HARM DONE by Geoff Ryman and CLAY'S WAY by Blair Mastbaum.
All are very unique. Not "gay books" by any stretch of the imagination but rather, interesting stories with queer characters at their centers.
Thanks for the suggestions. It sounds like a great list.
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