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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: July-December 2024

Peregrine Seas by R.C. Ballad (July 1st) Prince Peregrine couldn’t be happier to be kidnapped by pirates. Peregrine wasn’t cut out for the restrictive life of a nobleman – he’s hungry for adventure, prone to duelling, and his family refuse to believe he’s any kind of man at all. Despite his royal origins, he has more in common with the outcasts and rebels aboard the Cygnus that anyone onshore. He…

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you—soft and only, lost and lonely

Hiiiiii I just posted a fic for like the second time ever and the first time in like 7 years asjdgljkl. It's Gene/Andy from Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen. I hope you'll give it a read even if you haven't read the book! Only the most minor spoilers~

Review from @shelbychild: "absolutely embarrassing gays"

Here's the first scene:

When Gene sees the man Elsie is carrying into the bar, he springs immediately into action mode, his adrenaline pumping the second he sets eyes on the man’s beat-up face. He rushes over and hands Elsie a towel filled with ice. He’s used to helping patch people up around here, but this guy he’s never seen before.

When he comes back with the bandages and starts tending to the man’s—Andy’s—wounds, he puts on a smile that he hopes is comforting. People often try to play it cool, but he knows how terrifying it is to get attacked, how it shakes someone to their core. He’s seen it enough times, and lived it himself a few. But Gene has learned that it’s good to stay nonchalant, to try to settle the fear, so he holds out his hand and introduces himself. Andy responds affably. The guy seems okay, not too shaken up. Just very hurt.

Gene doesn’t know why his mind goes there when Andy starts unbuttoning his shirt. He’s seen enough people roughed up that he should have known what was happening, and yet—

“Maybe not the time for that,” Gene says, and he winks.

“They cracked a rib, I think,” Andy says.

Gene realizes his error, mortified.

“Oh!” Gene does his best to smile through the blush quickly rising on his face. He immediately helps Andy get his shirt off and starts inspecting his bruises—back on task.

He must have been thrown off by Andy so boldly calling him good-looking. He’s not unaccustomed to being flirted with, but he’s not the flirting type himself. He’s friendly, sure, likes to smile at everyone. But Gene has never been good at flirting and doesn’t care to be. He might—might throw out a friendly wink from time to time. Friendly. But he can’t believe he just so blatantly flirted with the severely injured man in front of him.

And yet, the man keeps making conversation with Gene, smiling and laughing despite the pain he must be feeling. At one point, Andy takes him by the wrist to readjust the ice Gene is still holding to his face, and Gene tries to ignore the way he swoons a bit at the touch. Their conversation turns serious and Gene feels like he sees Andy. His loneliness, his regret, the feeling of being lost. Gene has been there. He wraps Andy up in a hug— because he can’t help it, because he thinks this man needs it, and because, for some reason, he wants to.

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Evander (Andy) Mills- Lavender House by Lev Ac Rosen

Catherine St. Day- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Sideways Pike- The Spacegracers by HA Clarke

Malini- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

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[2023|88] Lavender House (2022) written by Lev AC Rosen

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ARC Review: The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

Order Add to Goodreads Publication Date: October 10, 2023

Synopsis:

The Bell in the Fog , a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks―once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them? San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective―but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job seems to be a simple case of blackmail, and Andy’s debts are piling up. He agrees to investigate, despite everything it stirs up. The case will take him back to the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, and then out into the gay bars of the city, where the past rises up to meet him, like the swell of the ocean under a warship. Missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos that could destroy lives are a whirlpool around him, and Andy better make sense of it all before someone pulls him under for good.

My Rating: ★★★★★

*My Review below the cut

My Review:

I was so impressed with Lavender House that I wasn't sure this second book could really stand up to it, especially given the way the story played out. To my surprise, it did.

Andy Mills is a compelling protagonist who has had a hard life and you just want him to succeed and have some good things and learn to enjoy himself and believe he's worth those good things. The other characters are vibrant and complicated and the way they push and pull Andy makes the overarching mystery more intriguing.

This is very much a novel about the way the past can drag at you, holding you back and trying to pull you under. And the way it would be so, so easy to let it. To let yourself be submerged into the memories and the glow of nostalgia and let your future fade away.

Andy is haunted by his memories and his past in this novel. It clouds his judgement and complicates his case, and he really struggles to break free of them.

The mystery twists and loops and as Andy investigates one suspect and then another you really wonder who could be behind it all. It's very well-crafted and satisfying.

I really love that this is very much a story about queer characters in a time where being queer is basically illegal and can easily get you beaten up or killed and no one would bat an eye. There is a danger that darkens all the shadows, but at the same time that just makes the light of their joy shine brighter in defiance.

The setting and the characters and the queerness of it all is captivating and as a queer reader is both painful and beautiful. I've never read anything quite like it before.

I was sucked in by the story as it unfolded and couldn't tear myself away. I will definitely be reading future novels about Andy and his friends.

*Thanks to Bookishfirst and Macmillan Tor/Forge for providing an early copy for review.

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Review: The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

Series: Andy Mills #2Author: Lev A.C. RosenPublisher: Forge BooksReleased: October 10, 2023Received: ARCFind it on Goodreads | More Mysteries Book Summary: Detective Evander “Andy” Mills once thought his life was over. While it has changed quite drastically from the life he once lived – he has started to find a place for himself. This is thanks largely to the community around him. Andy can…

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In Priase of Wind - Andy Lovell

British, b. 1964 -

Silkscreen print , 53.3 x 38 cm . Ed, 65.

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my spn ship chart. i stand by every one of these opinions and i will take them to my grave

pls excise the quality it's 1am and this template is like a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot

shoutout deanbenny, sam x jessica, and others that couldn't be included bc i ran out of space . extra special shoutout to destiel who check off literally every single one of these boxes but i told myself i'd be doing a different ship for each one. sorry boys

EDIT: I FORGOT CLAIREKAIA????? cannot believe this

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Grace Jones, Evelyn "Champagne" King and Stephanie Mills at Paradise Garage, 1979.

Photos by Andy Warhol

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I need fics where ALL the characters are alive and together and I mean EVERYONE

Pls give me recs🫶

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Fave Five: Queer Historical Mystery Series

Harlem Renaissance Mysteries by Nekesa Afia (1920s) The Nightingale Mysteries by Katharine Schellman (1920s) The Simon Sampson Mysteries by David C. Dawson (1930s) Pentecost and Parker by Stephen Spotswood (1940s) Evander Mills by Lev A.C. Rosen (1950s)

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writing lavender house fanfic. there is none on ao3. it is my duty.

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Ted Raimi - Slashing Prices (Intruder BTS Interview)

Bonus gif! (BTS of My Name is Bruce)

Another special thanks to @kaptainandy!

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Another one from the 2014 sketchbook - anyone remember Sleepy Hollow?

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LEE 2024

Don't make promises you can't keep.