Are you sitting down? Please do so.
Are you braced? It might be an overabundance of caution, but get ready.
Annabeth Albert’s contemporary romance novella Waiting for Clark features two gay men…
That’s not the part you have to prepare yourself for. This is:
Annabeth Albert’s novella Waiting for Clark features two gay men who are gay for the entirety of the book. Not questioning, not confused, not “gay for you” in that way of LGBT romances written, I suspect, for women. The heroes are both gay. Straight up gay, if you’ll excuse the pun.
FINALLY!
Aren’t you glad you sat down?
Plus the cover is what The Kids Today refer to as “adorkable”:
Bryce and Clark were roommates in university who couldn’t quite get their timing right. They were never single at the same time or their academic and professional pursuits pulled them in opposite directions. This left both of them hurt, disappointed, and guarded. Dressed as Batman and needing a Superman to fill out his superhero roster at a Comic Con style convention, Bryce finds himself facemask to spandex with his former roommate.
Clark and Bryce find that they are still tremendously attracted to one another, each is the one that got away, and, when Bryce provides a place to stay, they are at last in the right place at the right time. Unfortunately, having been disappointed before, Bryce will take some convincing that Clark is not going to leave him heartbroken again.
Related in the present and flashbacks, Waiting for Clark moves quickly to its resolution, including the magnificent term “volcano scene” to describe the kind of go-for-broke conversation people have when they are about to die. I vote that it enter the lexicon and supplant the expression “come to Jesus” for such talks. Please submit your ballots in the comments.
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Yay! So glad you liked this one too. It is definitely lighter in tone than the others I have read by her, but so far they are all about openly gay men.
Sorry I forgot the shout out in my review.
No worries! I don’t need a callback, I’m just glad you liked it. There are very few feelings as satisfying as someone liking something you recommended (and I’m pretty sure I owe you a million recommendations back for all the great ones you steered me towards when I was a mere lurker).
I do like “volcano scene” better than “come to Jesus.”
I’m all for a non-religious way to express that emotion, but something about “volcano scene” doesn’t work for me. I think I got this book for myself, if not I should.
I so need to get this, it seems an absolutely delightful read. I absolutely love the cover.