The gay marriage ban is nothing personal, unless you're a Cuban-American gay man in the heart of red-state America. Carlo Batista takes on longtime conservative Tall Tony Scipione in a race for state representative. And he takes on mystery man Brian Gallagher in the race for his heart. Breaking all the rules of polite society, Carlo proves that love, sex, politics, and religion do mix -- with hilarious and heart-warming results.
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Scott Pomfret and Scott Whittier met, fell in love and now live together in Boston, Massachusetts. We realized the story of our romance wasn’t the only one out there. So we created Romentics, a line of romance novels for all gay men who believe in happily ever after. We know firsthand the excitement and challenges of falling in love in a modern gay world. And we know how to write steamy literature. We’re both published writers, and both appear in Friction 7, Alyson Book’s newest collection of the year’s best erotic gay fiction. Fall in love with all the novels at www.Romentics.com.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not very romantic,
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I figured the story line would be pretty political, but since the authors state they write romance stories I thought I would give it a try. The story itself was interesting, but the romance was lacking. I was not even sure if(or when) Carlo and Brian fell in love. Sure there was sex and plenty of conflict, but where was the romance? I wasn't even sure I liked Carlo. There was too much spent on the political side of the story and not enough on developing the love between the main characters. Also, the sex scenes were lacking, the guys first time together wasn't even written into the story! If you are looking for a great action story with two hot guys and lots of love and romance, I highly reccommend S. Hardy Brondos books Perfect Trust and Perfect Hope at waywardbooks.com, you will not be disappointed.
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Nothing Personal by Scott & Scott,
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Nothing Personal by real life couple Scott&Scott is more a mainstream novel than a romance. Actually the romance in it is a bit overshadowed by the life journey of one of the character, the Cuban-American Carlo Batista.
At the beginning of the novel, Carlo is a mid-twenty normal gay guy; like a lot average guys, he went to college and gain a white collar job in an insurance call center. He has friends and ex lovers, and he follows the floods; one of this flood brings him in front of the building where politicians are voting a ban against gay marriage... and they win. Carlo, maybe for the first time, realizes that politics can influence his life and not in the best way. An attempt to change things without being too much involved doesn't bring much and so Carlo decides to enter the ring: he opposes to the Democrats candidate to be the him the Democrat representative. Carlo is not a political animal, he is mostly a man throws in something bigger than him; gathering around him a disparate election committee, made up from friends and not with different minds but whose personal interests draw them together, Carlo begins to convince people that he is serious, when he himself is not sure of it. Meanwhile his relationship with Brian Gallagher, his new boyfriend, is getting serious too, even if Carlo doesn't know a lot about Gallagher, and Gallagher at once is supportive of his political campaign and soon after refuses to be too much involved. Carlo and Gallagher's relationship is strange, since it starts abruptly, so abruptly that the reader realizes that they have a sexual relationship from little hints and not since he had the chance to read something about it; there is a scene in which Carlo is thinking to call Gallagher to ask the guy out, and few pages after, Carlo and Gallagher are steadily dating, and probably something is happening between them... I was a bit disoriented, I even went back some pages to actually check if I missed to read something... Maybe the fact is that the focus of the novel is not the romance between Carlo and Gallagher, but more Carlo's growth as independent man. And to be independent, Carlo couldn't focus on Gallagher. While we know about everything about Carlo, we know very little about Gallagher. He remains a mystery almost till the end, not only about his life, but also about his feelings for Carlo. Gallagher is strange, since he made things that are very tender, like bringing Carlo to know his family, but then he never gives any details on his life and feeling. Despite this, speaking of the romance, I prefer Gallagher's character, I feel like he is more involved on a personal level than Carlo. I really feel like if Carlo is a man who follows the flood, both in politics than love, but maybe this is due to the fact that he is still so young. Anyway the book is a bit of a surprise, quite different from the others I read by the same authors, but not a negative ones; only be warned, to be not disappointed from the lack of heavy romance aspects, usually so frequent in the Romentics novels.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Nothing personal,
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The political point of view was more important then the relationship. All of an sudden the characters made up seems more to do that we have 5 pages to the end of the book then a catalyst between the 2 characters.
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Good Hope, Watch Works, Water Street, Ten Commandments, Carlo Batista, Rose Macalester, Tall Tony, Billy Vigor, Billy Lola, Chain Male, Centro Libertario, Javier Sandoval, Towahannoc River, Detective Inches, Dorsey Hill, Enormous Room, Gay Shame, Hercules O'Leary, Brian Gallagher, Constitutional Convention, Fiona Devlin, Ronald Reagan Bridge, God Squad, Michael Carazza, East Side New!
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Good Hope, Watch Works, Water Street, Ten Commandments, Carlo Batista, Rose Macalester, Tall Tony, Billy Vigor, Billy Lola, Chain Male, Centro Libertario, Javier Sandoval, Towahannoc River, Detective Inches, Dorsey Hill, Enormous Room, Gay Shame, Hercules O'Leary, Brian Gallagher, Constitutional Convention, Fiona Devlin, Ronald Reagan Bridge, God Squad, Michael Carazza, East Side New!
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