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I’ve enjoyed reading the Mahu series by Neil Plakcy immensely, so was keen to read his latest book from MLR Press. While his other books focus more on the mystery and to a lesser degree Kimo’s coming out and love life, GayLife.com is firmly in the romance category.
Brian is such an honest character, complete with flaws and the odd annoying personality trait. As for his hunky boss I read less about him than I perhaps would have liked, which is unusual I guess in a romance novel where the central plot revolves around the two love birds and their merry trip off into connubial bliss + sex. What the book did remind me of was not dissimilar to a chick lit romance complete with a cast of interesting extras, much hieing around, a few disastrous attempts at love and a flatmate in a pear tree.
While I did enjoy the novel, the sexy boss could have done with a little more development and there was a lot of detail about the comings and goings of Brian and the website. I am a bit of a geek, but there was almost too much internets even for me in there! It had a sweet and satisfying ending though and much smooching.
Definitely an entertaining and sexy read with a difference. Check it out here at Neil Plakcy’s website or via MLR Press Website and All Romance eBooks. AND that cover rawks!
Author: Neil Plakcy
Publisher: MLR Press
Publisher URL: http://www.mlrbooks.com/
ISBN: 978-1-60820-037-5
Genre: Romance, M/M
Rating: 5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Chocolate Minx
Brian Cohen is sitting in his South Beach apartment, reflecting on his current unemployment status when he gets a phone from his best friend Stella, a fashion model that’s doing a local shoot and has a one day job for Brian. After work, Brian meets one of the male models and he informs Brian that his partner is looking for office help at GayLife.com. Brian rushes to the interview and is immediately attracted to co-owner Nick Petrangelis; however, Brian soon realizes his hopes to be noticed by Nick is a waste of time when he discovers Nick is in a long term relationship with the gorgeous male model. Brian is also about to discover that sometimes what you see is really an illusion.
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Review by Teresa
Brian’s life is at a crossroads. Thank god his best friend Stella is there for him when he lost his job and then to top it all off his boyfriend left him. Stella, a very well known model, talked Brian into getting a head shot months ago and told him she could get him a day's work modeling. With nothing else to do, Brian takes the job and afterwards he learns that Paavo’s boyfriend, Nick, is looking to hire someone to help him jumpstart his new web site. Brian ends up pitching in at the office and the job is his.
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Title: GayLife.com
Author: Neil Plakcy
Publisher: MLR Press
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novel (236 pages)
Rating: 4.75 stars out of 5
A Guest Review by Aunt Lynn
THE BLURB
Living in the awesome gay candy store called South Beach, Brian Cohen laments his inability to score a great job or a sexy boyfriend—until he lands at the website GayLife.com, where his hunky boss may want more from him than just his management skills.
THE REVIEW
I have not read any of the popular Mahu mystery books by Neil Plakcy, so he is a first-time author for me. I also understand this is his first foray into the world of romance, and I think he hit gold with this one. GayLife.com is a funny, smart, uplifting, well-written book that would be a perfect beach read — not too angsty, not too sappy, just right — and I could see this being made into a romantic comedy film.
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Publisher: MLR Press
Date published: June 2009
ISBN: 978-1-60820-036-8
Contemporary, GLBT
Paperback/E-book
Reviewed by Miss April
GAYLIFE.COM by Neil Plakcy is a story of a man who believes in a dream. Brian has done a little bit of everything but nothing permanent. When we meet him, he is unemployed and no job in sight. Luckily his best friend Stella comes through for him. She finds him a job possibility through her model contacts. Before Brian knows it, he is the office manager for an up and coming dot.com company and crushing hard for one of the owners, Nick. Nick who is in a committed loving relationship with his super model boyfriend, Pravvo. So what’s a gay guy to do? Believe in the dream, of course.
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Elisa Rolle's review
Gaylife.com is the name of the website where Brian, unemployed thirty something gay guy in Miami ends to work for, but it's also the summa of what the story is the "gay life" of a man who is at that moment in life when he has to take a decision, living forever like a globetrotter, without basis or purpose, or doing something with his life. The time is the late '90, I believe for two reasons: first, the Internet was still enough young that the adventure to launch a gay website could be still something new and original and second, maybe the out and proud movement was not so strong, and some of the events that take place in Brian's life were still possible and common.
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Brian Cohen has no career and no love prospects, but he has a best friend who supports him and looks out for his best interest. A possible job leads him to the office of Nick Petrangelis, the owner and founder of GayLife.com. The fact that Nick has a boyfriend deters Brian from trying for more, but with Nick’s killer body, it’s hard to not keep the fantasies sizzling and the flames flickering.
Brian gains valuable lessons over the course of his new job, some in friendship, a few about relationships, important realizations about his skills, and most importantly a lesson in love.
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