It seems that Mr Labonté is having a slight change of heart and discovering the softer joys of romance. Richard,  best known for his (seemingly) endless anthologies of hot to trot gay erotica has turned his well honed editing skills on some more romantic stories, but rest assured, even though these stories have a soft and meltingly romantic centre they are still wrapped up in hard, tasty and erotic coating. It’s gay men’s romance were talking about here anyway not Mills & Boon, so you kind of expect the usual thrusting, heaving loins and taught, tight muscles. This collection is redolent with romance and celebrates the coming together of bodies and souls.

In this fourth in the ongoing series of 'Best Gay Romance' there are some fun and fresh perspectives from these authors collected together in this book, and with fifteen varied stories to choose from this should help you while away a lonesome afternoon waiting for that prince to cum.

In a (low hanging, shaved) nutshell these are ‘boy gets boy, does boy, and keeps him’ stories.

These stories explore the idea that one night, one week or one summer can be as romantic as a life spent together. From the sweet, everyday and unexpected discovery of love on your own doorstep in ‘Total Package’ by Michael Bracken, to the more sophisticated wisdom and suggestiveness of ‘The Falls’ by Natty Soltesez this paperback collection of (sometimes very) short stories is a good read, leaves you feeling warm, covers all the kind of love from first to make-up and even, in this most cynical and bitter of reviewers hearts, lit a  candle of hope that we might all get a chance at the ‘happy ever afters.’


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