Best Gay Romance 2011 is an anthology of all new stories from the prolific (author in his own right) Richard Labonté who always churns out a good yearly collection of the best gay shorts stories. As is usual in these collections there is a cross section of established and well loved authors contrasted with some of the thrusting young blades who are making their name at the moment. It works well and you can always trust Labonté to have done his work and ensured that the quality of writers presented here is consistently high.

With stories that are sometimes rowdy, always randy and surprisingly tender, Richard Labonté once again shares his selection from the work of gay romantic fiction and these stories cover every romantic possibility, including fist love, true love, wake up sex, make up sex and everything in between. These are stories of the triumph of love in sometimes trying circumstances but always with hope.

Each story bristles with romance, great sex and characters that are fully fleshed out, in more ways than one, and the fission of romantic love that thrusts though the book celebrates the coming together not just of swarthy heaving male bodies but also the noble hearts and souls within them

If you fancy something that’s as warm hearted about love as its hot about sex then this collection might be just the thing for your bed time reading and it will remind you that love is a surprising thing (and like the Spanish Inquisition) is something folk never expect.  

Gives Mills and Boon a huge run for their money and leaves you feeling warm & squidgy inside and if you’re a fan of this gentler form of gay erotica where the complex emotional needs of the characters are explored as much as their physical then you’ll enjoy it.

However, if you’re a bitter old bitch like me then the book goes flying on to the fire!

Out now £10.99

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