Straight Up

Title: Straight Up
Author: James Lear
Published: 2015 by Cleis Press
Genre: Cocks, and there's some danger and politics and stuff, too
Pages: 289



This time, I was determined to finish reading and update before the year ticked to an end! Sequel to the sticky ending of 2014, The Hardest Thing, and a lovely xmas/bday present. This time, the SO slipped in a few screaming pink Post-It -notes with happy penises drawn on them. Only found one of them in a bus. Jolly cocks! As if the book wasn't already full of those!

Dan Stagg, ex-marine, current gym-worker, is back. Life seems to be getting somewhat better for him as he builds bridges with his parents, and sees as much of his long-distance boyfriend as they can manage. Luckily there's Skype in the modern world, 'Fucking Facebook', and specialized sites for, say, veterans to find each other and catch up. Dan has signed up to one such site, and one day, receives a message from an old comrade who is keen to meet. There is an actual plot-reason for the meeting, but there's also plenty of cock. Dan is soon elbow-deep in danger again, with old sins coming to haunt -and hurt- members of an old, secret mission.

I really want to read The Hardest Thing again, now. Plus the Mitch Mitchell Mysteries. All of them.Can't I just quit my job and read for a living?


   "On your knees, soldier. I'm coming in from behind."


And that makes 80 books in 2015, holy shit! EXCEPT that I did indeed finish the first one in 2014, so, no. Not 80, 79. Still, that's plenty of books!

Happy New Year! Wee!