If my opinion counts at all... you should rethink the Adrien English mysteries. I generally avoid Lanyon's interviews and such myself, so I understand where you're coming from on that, but there is a reason why he's my favorite M/M mystery author, and one of my favorite M/M writers in general. Trying to adjust from the romance genre to mysteries can be difficult - the mystery genre can end up feeling dry, dull, overly-technical. Lanyon bridges that gap wonderfully. What he lacks in "happy ever after," he more than makes up for in common sense. I can promise, you won't find any prostate-licking or self-lubing ukes in his books. The rest of your choices makes me think you're more interested in romance and fantasy; if "happy ever after" is all you're looking for, then no, you probably won't like it. However, imo, Adrien is a very endearing character. I would have enjoyed reading about him even if there hadn't been a sniff of romance in the story. If it turns out that you buy it, enjoy it, and decide you want to try more in the mystery genre, then I can give you the names of a couple of other M/M mystery authors that you might also enjoy.
As for Myckles... She admits to having strong yaoi tendencies, but I picked up a couple of actual yaoi novels at Yaoicon, and I have to say that Myckles was by far the better buy. To illustrate: the yaoi novels will continue to sit on my bookshelf until I find someone with much lower standards to dump them on, and Faith is sitting on my desk, already well-read. I have all four of the Heaven Sent books in both ebook and print. I know that in my review I said that I liked Heaven most, but that was before I'd read Faith, which is now my favorite. Other than that, I strongly stand by my original review.
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Date: 2008-10-12 04:42 pm (UTC)The rest of your choices makes me think you're more interested in romance and fantasy; if "happy ever after" is all you're looking for, then no, you probably won't like it. However, imo, Adrien is a very endearing character. I would have enjoyed reading about him even if there hadn't been a sniff of romance in the story.
If it turns out that you buy it, enjoy it, and decide you want to try more in the mystery genre, then I can give you the names of a couple of other M/M mystery authors that you might also enjoy.
As for Myckles... She admits to having strong yaoi tendencies, but I picked up a couple of actual yaoi novels at Yaoicon, and I have to say that Myckles was by far the better buy. To illustrate: the yaoi novels will continue to sit on my bookshelf until I find someone with much lower standards to dump them on, and Faith is sitting on my desk, already well-read.
I have all four of the Heaven Sent books in both ebook and print. I know that in my review I said that I liked Heaven most, but that was before I'd read Faith, which is now my favorite. Other than that, I strongly stand by my original review.