Actual books I want.

[animeartistjo]

Not just fanfiction--published stuff! All m/m of course. *g*

Josh Lanyon's Adrien English omnibus. LooseID. Argh! Read the "After Series" interview Lanyon had with the main characters and it was so depressing, I'm striking this. T_T I'm a romantic at heart and while the ending wasn't the typical "happily ever after", I WANT that type of ending in anything I'm actually paying money for. T^T

Er... Nightrunner. Who wrote it? Trilogy. Fantasy.

Kirby Crow's Scarlett and the White Wolf. Trilogy, only as eBook. Fantasy. Hee, blonde top, brunette bottom? Maybe? <3

Elisa Viperas's Dark Lord Seeks Friendship, Maybe More. Torn because, who does he end up with? I'm hoping for the cliche answer--it's the adviser. But, only one novel! Ugly cover art b/c only offered as eBook ($4).

Jet Mykles's Heaven Sent Just Heaven and Purgatory, though. Art by PL Nunn! >.< ($12.82 print omnibus) Excerpts match the title. Maybe Faith from the series as well.

Emily Veinglory's The Wicca Man: Tongue-Tied Only first in series. ebook only. HOT excerpt.

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[carvedwood.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I've never seen the appeal of straight-up mysteries before, either. And I have tried. In my case, it wasn't the fact that they were dark, it was the sheer tedium. It's Adrien himself, I think, who makes the difference. He's funny, and sarcastic, and sweet, and sometimes a little bittersweet. I was lucky, I got to read the PDF of Fatal Shadows on Lanyon's site before it was taken down in preparation for the re-release. That meant I was hooked before I had to spend one cent on it, but I certainly don't regret it. I fangirl Lanyon like whoah. (And, yes, I'm in love with Adrien.)

I simply cannot agree with the people who told you that the Heaven Sent books are PWPs, and LdDurham agrees with me. There's a lot of sex, yes, but there's also a story in between. Is it edgy, angsty, deep, gut-wrenching? Well, not really. These are romances, after all, they don't pretend to be anything else. Boy meets boy, boy falls into bed with boy, boy takes for-freakin'-ever to admit he's in love. And that's the difference between a PWP and a romance, isn't it? In romance, it doesn't matter how soon they fall into bed, what matters is how well they fall in love.

It's ironic. You want UST and slow build-up, which is what happens in the Adrien English books, but you don't like a dark story, which is what you won't find in Heaven Sent. Both sets seem to sit on opposite ends of what you're looking for.