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This Charming Man: Queen City Boys, #1
This Charming Man: Queen City Boys, #1
This Charming Man: Queen City Boys, #1
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This Charming Man: Queen City Boys, #1

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Will Seattle Make a Man of Him Yet?

On a night out in Seattle's gay club scene, a chance encounter with an intriguing older man inspires Steven Frazier with visions of a more rewarding life. But when Steven abandons drugs and one-night stands, his loyal-but-venomous best friend won't set him free without a fight. Must Steven sacrifice friendship—and forsake an unrequited love—to follow his dreams?

As Steven's horizons expand, his friends now include eclectic new arrivals, helping to keep his quest on track. Working to reinvent himself, Steven seeks to prove his worth, driven by exquisite longing for a charming man just out of his reach.

Both reflective and intensely sexy, This Charming Man is a novel about friendship, hope, and personal growth. This story captures the drama of coming into one's own as an adult and creates a vibrant snapshot of Seattle in the early 1990s.

The Queen City Boys books are an interrelated series of standalone stories with no particular reading order. Spanning four decades in Seattle, Queen City Boys tells the explicit adventures of an eclectic group of gay friends as they find their way through the ends and beginnings of their most important relationships.

This book contains depictions of drug use, and emotional manipulation/abuse.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJugum Press
Release dateNov 1, 2014
ISBN9781939423283
This Charming Man: Queen City Boys, #1
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Ajax Bell

A Seattle native, Ajax Bell writes queer fiction, including the Queen City Boys books, an interrelated series of standalone stories. Spanning four decades in Seattle, Queen City Boys tells the explicit adventures of an eclectic group of gay friends as they find their way through the ends and beginnings of their most important relationships. According to Ajax the best thing in life is a perfect Pacific Northwest spring day spent on a sunny bench with a good book. Never a sea captain, but a background in library sciences and a lifetime of pencil pushing together left Ajax with a rich fantasy life and a compulsive need to write it down. No matter what the task, Ajax always has the right pair of shoes. One day Ajax hopes to own a genetically altered hippopotamus the size of a small dog.

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    72 of 75 for 2015. Let me state right off the bat that there is graphic male on male sex in this novel. In fact, some of the hottest sex I've read outside of outright pornography is included in the narrative. I must also say that the opening of this novel is so outside my comfort zone, that I almost closed the book and moved on. There is way too much drug and alcohol abuse in the gay community without reading books that seem to glorify that self-destructive activity. All that said, I am so glad I continued reading. Steven Frazier, the protagonist, is a brilliant young man, working his way through the University of Washington's Computer Science program in the early 1990s, but caught up in a relationship where he is always there for his "friend" Adrian, but from which he himself gets little but heartache. The story line leads us through the process of Steven freeing himself from his destructive friends and habits, and learning to value himself while going after what he really wants in life. A good description of gay life in the early 90s, especially with a fine take on that life in Seattle. Anyone who knew the Queen City in those days (already 25 years ago), will recognize landmarks, streets and the people who inhabit them. My advice, if you can deal with graphic sex, hold your nose through the opening of the book and watch Steven grow. I'm glad I did.

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