Fire on the Island (de ParisDude)
Synopsis « Fire on the Island » is a playful, romantic thriller set in contemporary Greece, with a gay Greek-American FBI agent, who is undercover on the island to investigate a series of mysterious fires. Set against the very real refugee crisis on the beautiful, sun-drenched Greek islands, this novel paints a loving portrait of a community in crisis. As the island residents grapple with declining tourism, poverty, refugees, family feuds, and a perilously damaged church, an arsonist invades their midst. Nick Damigos, the FBI agent, arrives on the island just in time to witness the latest fire and save a beloved truffle-sniffing dog. Hailed as a hero and embraced by the community, Nick finds himself drawn to Takis, a young bartender
Gaydonia (de ParisDude)
Synopsis « Gaydonia » tells the story of Davor Matosic, a government apparatchik in an imaginary cash-strapped Balkan country, who launches a daring new plan to raise revenue – he’ll transform Zablvacia into a gay tourist mecca. His opponent, a former flame, pushes a rival plan to make money from a line of deliberately mediocre, weight loss inducing foods. The two factions fight it out, with the help and interference of Davor’s gay son, his mother, wife, and daughter, and the entire population of Zablvacia. Notre avis Qui connaît le pays de Zablvacia ? Exactement : personne. Ancien État membre de la République fédérative socialiste de Yougoslavie (aujourd’hui disparue), Zablvacia est un petit pays enclavé et à moitié oublié, situé quelque part dans les
Comment j’ai du choisir entre un joli banquier, un flic sexy et un chinois craquant (de ParisDude)
Synopsis Un peu d’humour… et d’amour ! Qui croirait qu’être coursé par des CRS suite à un malencontreux bourre-pif conduirait à se confiner chez un riche banquier, tomber dans le lit du fiston, y retrouver un flic au nez pansé, se voir enfermer dans des toilettes par un chinois affolé, le tout orchestré par un majordome hyperstylé ? Hé bien c’est ce qui attendit Simon après une course folle. Notre avis Simon, la trentaine, traducteur tranquille de mandarin et gay dévergondé, est aussi, à ses heures perdues, ce que l’on nomme communément un droit-de-l’hommiste : son cœur bat à gauche, et il le fait savoir, que les dictateurs, exploiteurs, spoliateurs, nababs parasitaires et autres défenseurs du capitalo-totalitarisme se le tiennent pour dits. Mais
The Blue Star (de ParisDude)
Synopsis Two heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s ancestor, Orvil Starkweather, is revealed – the secrets of his life sounding a counterpoint to Chase’s. New York City’s Central Park and the imposing figure of designer Frederick Law Olmsted provide a mysterious connection to Chase’s life. The story of the two men unfolds in Florence and New York exposing the unimagined and startling connection with the past, and taking them finally on a fateful cruise up the
En aller simple (de ParisDude)
Synopsis Thomas est un garçon réservé et solitaire. Depuis quelques mois, il vit à Genève. Fils de diplomate, son enfance et son adolescence se résument à des séjours plus ou moins longs de ville en ville. Entre cours au lycée et séances d’escrime, le quotidien de ce brillant élève de terminale est orchestré par sa mère, virtuose de l’organisation. Elle le charge d’épauler Russell, un nouveau camarade de classe, trublion collant qui a le don de l’agacer. Soucieux de son avenir, son père se met en tête de lui trouver un professeur particulier pour apprendre l’allemand. Jeune homme ordonné et discipliné en proie à la menace d’une vie qu’il croit tracée d’avance, Thomas s’éprend alors de Klaas, l’enseignant désigné par
Lot (de ParisDude)
Synopsis Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In the city of Houston – a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America – the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, the heartbreak of ghosts, and the braveries of the human heart. The stories of others living and thriving and dying across Houston’s myriad neighbourhoods are woven throughout to reveal a young woman’s affair detonating across an apartment complex, a
A Cry in the Desert (de ParisDude)
Synopsis A story of the battle against tyranny that remains as relevant now as when it was written. A group of friends living in Las Vegas are happy and successful: doctors, lawyers, journalists, and decorators. However, their lives go from utopian to dystopian when a law passes to allow the quarantine of those suspected to have AIDS. The government, in a blatant overreach, closes the Nevada border. Those tagged as homosexuals disappear in the middle of the night. Spurred on, former Public Defender wunderkind Larry Armstrong and his lover Dr. Carl Woodsford fight Dr. Alfred Botts, a brilliant strategist who creates a concentration camp in the middle of the Nevada desert where, once behind the tall walls, people are never
Comment j’ai atterri dans le lit de noces de mon meilleur ami (de ParisDude)
Synopsis La perspective d’un chaud weekend au mariage de son meilleur ami, puis d’une semaine à courir le gay sur la côte ensoleillée du mois de juin, tout y était ! Mais les doutes d’une fiancée, la défiance des belles-mères, la cuite du meilleur ami, un DJ qui en a vu d’autres et une danse sur table effrénée en chantant Kalinka… le weekend bascule, la semaine est compromise… la vie gay ne serait-elle donc pas un chemin jonché de ces pétales de roses qui fanent sur le lit de noces ? Notre avis Sam, un trentenaire gay et décomplexé, est le meilleur ami depuis toujours de Julius (bel étalon sportif et tout ce qu’il y a de plus hétéro), et ce au
Death Of A Diva (de ParisDude)
Synopsis « Quite fun… » – Eric Idle Danny Bird is having a very bad day. In the space of just a few hours he lost his job, his partner and his home. Ever the optimist, Danny throws himself headlong into his dream to turn the grimmest pub in London into the coolest nightspot south of the river. Sadly, everything doesn’t go quite as planned when his star turn is found strangled hours before opening night. Danny becomes the prime suspect in the crime, and then the gangster who really owns the pub starts asking where his share of the takings has gone… it seems things are going to get worse for Danny before they get better. “A classic whodunit brought bang
Secret at Skull House (de ParisDude)
Synopsis Ellery Page is back–and in hot water again! Unlike everyone else in Pirate’s Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village’s only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. Ellery and Brandon have history. Their relationship ended badly and the last thing Ellery wants is a chance to patch things up–especially when his relationship with Police Chief Jack Carson is just getting interesting. But then, maybe Brandon isn’t all that interested in getting back together either, because he seems a lot more interested in asking questions about the bloodstained past of his new home than