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Sort Of Stranger Than Fiction (2010)

by Josh Lanyon(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

JCP Books LLC

series

Petit Morts

review 1: Sort of Stranger than Fiction (Petit Morts 7) by Josh Lanyon (17,240 words) is a strong installment in the delightful Petit Morts series, now at ten books with the final five soon to be released. The novelettes are written by some of the top names in gay romance today, including Jordan Castillo Price, Josh Lanyon, Sean Kennedy, and Clare London. Each novelette shares the character of Chance, a sexy, enigmatic chocolatier with supernatural powers. Chance travels the world, opening his chocolate shop in a new location and staying long enough to bring lovers together and meddle in their lives, often in an eerie and magical way. Depending upon the author writing each novelette, the supernatural aspect to the story may be prominent or subtle. This particular novelette ignores t... morehe supernatural in favor of traditional, realistic mystery elements.The story opens in a tiny fictional California town where twins Ethan and Erin run a bookstore. Erin also invents icky beverages at their coffee bar while Ethan runs a writing critique group of eccentrics, including a creepy young man Karl who pens gruesome serial killer stories. Karl seems fixated on the shy and virginal Ethan (our viewpoint character), but Ethan has a painfully obvious crush on Michael, the scarred, gruff, and mysterious owner of a karate school in the same strip mall. Meanwhile, Ethan encounters the unsettlingly observant Chance, who has opened his chocolate shop in the strip mall, and Chance encourages Ethan to get to know Michael. But some dead bodies have turned up in the surrounding desert, and it is entirely likely that either Karl or Michael or even Chance could have committed the murders. Who can Ethan trust when he might be the next victim?Val for AReCafe
review 2: A short but decent romance, mostly about untangling mistaken assumptions about people (and the stories you tell yourself about people), and the role that process plays in falling for someone else. This installment succeeded where previous Lanyon installments hadn't, because the suspense aspect was more integrated into the emotional aspects of the plot and never took up more narrative energy than necessary. less

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