Small detour, but still crossing things off my TBR list. Here's Alessandra Hazard's "Straight Boy." It's the actually the prequel to her Straight Guys series.
["Young, blond and handsome, Sage attracts unwanted attention in prison. When his cellmate offers him protection, Sage accepts the offer, even though he doesn't trust the guy. Little does he know how much it will change his life.
When he's released from prison, Sage finds himself needing and wanting things he shouldn't want. Sage is straight. He really is. He has a girlfriend. What happened in prison stayed in prison--or so Sage tells himself.
Until he meets his former cellmate again. Xavier. The guy he hates and craves."]
The thing about this series is one of the MMC is straight, and he continues to insist that he's straight until very nearly the end of the novel. Even when all signs point to falling in love (or already in love) with the other MMC.
The second thing about this series is how very, very thin the line between consensual and non-consenual is.
I want to love this series, I really do, but I think I need a small break.
The thing I love about M/M books is the gay-for-you or the queer-awakenings and eventually accepting themselves in all of their individual beauty (and the "I love you"s). That plus the whole #consentissexy thing. This series might just play with those rules a little too much for me.
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