Title: Greeks Invented Love 1: Your Biggest FAN
Series: Greeks Invented Love
Author: Missy Welsh
Genre: LGBT, Contemporary
Length: Novel (226 KB, 112 pages)
Publisher: Loose Id LLC (September 17, 2012)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Truman Durant has two painful secrets. One keeps him in the closet and the other hangs inside his closet. Letting either out seems like the equivalent of suicide to him. He didn’t know just how badly he needed Stasi Manolis until he found himself in the pushy Greek’s sights. Would giving up his secrets and maybe falling in love really be so bad?
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Reviewer: Artemis
Review: In this book, Truman is struggling. He can accept the fact that he is gay, but the need to occasionally dress up in girl’s clothes is harder to accept. After a very emotionally scarring incident in his last relationship, he is perfectly happy keeping his secrets very carefully hidden in the closet. Stasi doesn’t have a whole heck of a lot of experience with being out and proud, but he came out of the closet and is doing the best he can. He has a horrible crush on Truman, but figures the very heterosexual seeming baseball player doesn’t bat for his team. When he catches Truman watching him in the library he starts to hope that maybe this could turn into something. When he follows Truman out-of-town and discovers his penchant for garters and lace, Truman is horrified and terrified that his secrets will all be exposed. While Stasi is a little bit shocked he is also a whole lot turned on and Truman starts to think that maybe he can let the secrets out of the closet. The path isn’t particularly smooth, but they are determined to forge ahead together.
Let me just say that I read this book in one sitting on a very lazy Saturday morning and could not put it down. I also found myself grinning stupidly half way through the book because Truman was so darn sweet and Stasi was just so perfect for him. These characters were incredibly well written. I could feel Truman’s pain and insecurity, his fear of someone finding out his secrets, and how much he hated the need he felt for cross dressing. When Stasi discovered his secret he was honest with Truman…while he had never had a thing for guys in lace he was incredibly interested and excited about seeing this side of Truman. He was caring and protective and the bond between the two was intense. I think the author did a good job of making this a realistic story…there were misunderstandings and awkward moments during sex and all of the things that real relationships have to go through. I am glad they found their happily ever after and I would love to see these characters come back in another book. I would love to see this relationship mature and have these characters be so sweet, down to earth, and passionate 15 years from now!