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2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist - Gay RomanceTwo roommates pretend to be boyfriends to go to a wedding. One roommate is in love with one of the grooms. The other roommate has the hots for the other groom. What could go wrong?

Frank Mercer is a 40-year-old high school math teacher, newly divorced from his husband and struggling to make his mortgage payments. He thinks his problems will be solved by a romance with his old friend Jonathan Butler, a man Frank has secretly admired for over twenty years. But Jonathan is engaged to Marcus Pierce, his unfaithful longtime boyfriend. When Jonathan asks Frank to serve as best man at his wedding, Frank must choose between supporting his friend and speaking from his heart.

Julio Robles is Frank's roommate and a popular yoga teacher. Julio's star student is none other than Marcus, Jonathan's fiancé and Frank's nemesis. And Marcus has made it clear he'd like more from Julio than yoga lessons. When Frank asks Julio to pretend to be his boyfriend on a dinner date with Jonathan and Marcus, Julio can't resist accepting the invitation. And finds himself in over his head.

Frank and Julio invent a fake relationship in the face of Marcus and Jonathan's all-too-real relationship. But which relationship is real, which relationship is fake? Their story leads them to ask themselves fundamental questions about love, friendship, and what it means to be true to one's partner.

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June 1, 2019
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18 years
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In 1993 Chris Delyani moved to San Francisco from his hometown of Boston to devote himself to fiction -- and has been at it ever since. He is the author of The Love Thing (2009) and You Are Here (2012). In 2013 You Are Here won the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Award in the General Fiction category. He lives in Oakland, California. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B07PF5B4DR
Publication date : June 1, 2019
Language : English
File size : 1756 KB
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Screen Reader : Supported
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Print length : 278 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1791835155
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,153,061 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #13,733 in Gay Fiction
- #19,389 in Gay Romance
- #31,641 in LGBTQ+ Romance (Books)

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Larisa Pazmino

An engaging "love quadrangle" story

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2020

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I love the way Chris Delyani writes his characters - they are real, flawed people muddling their way through life and love. The main characters - Frank and Julio - learn as much about themselves through the story as they do about each other. The catalyst for the story is the wedding of Jonathon and Marcus, and Frank's need for a pretend boyfriend (his housemate Julio) to bring to dinner. From there the relationships follow a series of twists and turns. Along the way, a voyage of self-discovery ensues. Christ Delyani is an engaging writer and I found myself rooting for these characters. I highly recommend this novel!

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Realistic, flawed, good

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2019

I’m evil, I know, I just loved the cheating, the manipulation and the lies. This story is nothing I expected and goshh is that a pleasant surprise.

I must say I’m not sure I loved the personalities all the time, but I can say they were all realistic flawed. No sugarcoats and no one is really who they seem to be. The story has a wonderful build up. Bit by bit I got more involved and felt more connected.

It’s not an upbeat read, more a bit depressing, when I was a bit further in this story things changed, almost unnoticed. The story was well put together. I really loved it. Even with the somewhat flat emotions throughout this story I found it quite captivating, the further I got in this book the more engaged I felt. I had some feelings while reading only not the ones that made my eyes blurred or my heart hurt. Still, with all this I enjoyed it greatly.

It’s a story about four men. The main character is Frank but there are more POV’s.
I found it clarifying to know what played in other heads.
Frank is divorced and his heart belongs to his best friend Jonathan. Jonathan will marry Marcus. Jonathan asks Julio to go with him to the engagement-party as his boyfriend. Julio is not happy about it, Frank has nothing that attracts him in a guy, still he goes. Marcus is more what Julio is looking for in a man.
Don’t expect a passionate sexy story because it’s far from it. What you can expect are some realistic encounters, cheating partners and lies. Friendship and lovers are mixed up.
I loved it all!
I found it quite refreshing to read a down to earth story. The end was surprising and lovely.

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The Game of Love

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019

The delightful Chris Delyani presents BEST MAN, a comedy of manners interwoven with an introspective and serious motif of the possibility of change.

Instead of Bob and Carol Ted and Alice (of 1970s fame), we have Jonathan and Marcus, Julio and Frank. Their daily lives are fraught with the upside of work and the downside of romance. When Jonathan and Marcus announce their upcoming nuptials, Frank goes into a tailspin. He has loved Jonathan for years. But he is recovering from a traumatic divorce. Nothing seems worth the effort any more. Enter Julio, the carefree and yet philosophical yoga teacher.

Julio is Frank's roommate, an annoyance of a free spirit in Frank's staid life. But it is Julio who is the better problem solver though Frank is the master of the a literal chess board and chess club.

Marcus is a painful boor, whose ego threatens all near him. Jonathan, the good, the kind, the artistic, is somehow in love with Marcus, enough to marry the philandering wretch.

The lies spin more lies. The action gets intricate as Frank tries to balance the aggression of Marcus against his own passivity. Julio sparks fire. Jonathan is Jonathan, alluring, confused, silent.

What a tangled web they weave, but left in Delyani's capable hands, things get sorted out in a most enjoyable and surprising way. I highly recommend this romantic comedy with enough quiet wisdom to temper the mad-cap antics of these characters.

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Lisa Boltiador

easy to get into

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2019

Frank and Julio seem like the most unlikely of matches. Julio rents a room in Frank's house and they pretty much don't speak to one another. But a little white lie snowballs and these two are vying for the affections of two men who are engaged!

I wish that chapters were labeled by whose point of view they were in. Also, for awhile I had a hard time liking anyone enough to root for them. The last few chapters made all the difference to me. I finally got to see a more genuine connection. I would have enjoyed an epilogue, it was just getting to the happy and I wanted more of that. All in all, it was an entertaining story that was well written and easy to get into.

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It's 2.30am and I couldn't put this down

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019

What a beautiful and classy love story! This book has eloquent style, like I am reading a traditional literature novels from decades ago... and it works. At first it took me a few pages to get into the flow of the authors style but once I did, i couldn't stop reading and needing to know what happens..

This is some of the best characterisation I have read in a long time. The author did an utterly amazing job of making me completely fall in love with the characters, to delve into the question of human nature and relationships.

I cannot recommend this book enough, it's just beautiful and at times raw in its honesty.

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Steven Valenti

A true page-turner from start to finish

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

Riveting and full of surprises page after page. Many of which led me to tears as relationships began and ended. If romance and good writing intrigue, then this is a must-have for your library.

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Hannah Morgan

A bittersweet, beautifully told story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2019

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More LGTBQ+ than the slash fic I often read. This is a serious, often bittersweet romantic novel from the point of view of Frank, a man who has never got over a romantic attachment for a friend and Julio, who is Frank's housemate since he divorced. Poor Frank is in a rather woeful state, locking himself up in his house avoiding Julio, so he is thrown into confusion when Jonathan turns up in his life again planning a wedding to his evil boyfriend Marcus who utterly hates Frank. Julio on the other hand is busy crushing on Marcus at his yoga classes unaware that Marcus is engaged. As a favour for Frank, Julio pretends to be his boyfriend to Jonathan and Marcus.

I liked the characters in this book and the way that the plot kept me guessing, I thought that the first person narrative worked well in the way that the characters were not necessarily what Frank and Julio thought they were. They are all very human and every one of them does things that they are ashamed of (or should be ashamed of!). I loved the way that Frank and Julio grew as people. This is not an explicit book, but I didn't feel like it needed it, this is a beautifully told story.

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