Richard Labonte is a self-confessed true romantic and it shows -- "Best Gay Romance 2011" covers every romantic possibility with first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between. Labonte has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often in the most unexpected places. Sometimes rowdy, always randy, and surprisingly tender, these tales celebrate the uniting of souls as well as bodies. Each story revels in romance, great sex, and characters who ...
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Richard Labonte is a self-confessed true romantic and it shows -- "Best Gay Romance 2011" covers every romantic possibility with first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between. Labonte has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often in the most unexpected places. Sometimes rowdy, always randy, and surprisingly tender, these tales celebrate the uniting of souls as well as bodies. Each story revels in romance, great sex, and characters who are fully fleshed out (in more ways than one). Whether happily ever after or a happy ending, Labonte continues to raise the bar on gay love stories with compulsively readable great writing on true romance.
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Hey, how would you like to read a story about a fratboy who gets drunk and vomits? How would you like to read a story about a gaybashing in which the victim vomits? Sound like romance to you? Labonte likes diversity and stress too much. Want to read a good book of gay romance stories? Try Andrew Holleran's "In September The Light Changes" A book like that shows that you can get some good, meaningful stories between the covers of one book. Best Gay Romances 2011 proves that you can revolt readers in a lot of different ways. Oh, there is one good story in Best Gay Romances 2011. It involves a pork festival in an Italian town. Read that story, then throw the book away.