Real life took me away from this book many times over a six month period but, whereas lesser stories would have faded from memory unfinished, I never forgot that I wanted to return to this one. I just finished reading it, and I couldn’t be more excited to now count Michael Nava among my favorite...
This book has a split personality. It started off as a thoughtful story about gay people suffering oppression individually and as a community in the early '80's, when AIDS was both feared by many and seen by a number of people as divine retribution for a so called perverted lifestyle. The book wa...
*contains comparisons and a question*Touted as his most daring/cutting novel, it wasn't actually that much about child molestation, certainly nowhere near what British novels and TV series unearthed and portrayed. But asides here and there made me think Nava might know more, for whatever reason d...
RATING: 4.75It’s not my normal reading style to read the last book in a series first, but in the case of Rag and Bone, I’m glad that I broke my own rule. The book is exceptional on many levels and has an emotional resonance that you don’t often find in crime fiction.Henry Rios is at a point wher...
This is the 4th novel in the Henry Rios mysteries and one of my favorites. In this mystery we learn a little bit more about Henry and his history with his father. Henry and Josh ( who have been together for 5 years) have broken up due to many reasons,chief among them that Josh is having an affair...
This is one of the more unique books I've read this summer. If I hadn't been browsing the LGBT Fiction section of my local used bookstore a few weeks ago, I would've never heard of this series or author. The printing press is now defunct and I've never seen this on lists of LGBT genre fiction her...