★★★★ Doubleday Books | 2021 Filed Unr: Apparently, there's not a lot of bathg a bathhoe Hontly, n we get more gay thrillers, please! "Popular” mystery/thriller fictn is lackg LGBTQ+ centred stori and we all know or a book like this wouldn't be such a breath of h air. And that mak…
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IS THIS A GAY HOE?
Vernon secured an offer to publish his first thriller, 2018’s Southern gothic “When You Fd Me, ” he sought an agent who would not only close that al but take on a send novel, which he characterized before s publitn as “‘Grdr thriller’ gay and hgg on toxic same-sex relatnships. A plethora of recent fictn om gay wrers portrays characters their full humany. It’s easy to be sced by s tense scen a bath hoe (too cutely) named Hs, which 26-year old Oliver Park has arranged, through a gay app lled MeetLockr, an assignatn wh an attractive Sndavian.
A glimpse to the life of Nathan’s bt iend tak as a given the tersectn of nservative polics wh gay culture, which the hands of more veloped protagonists, such as Hansen’s Dave Brandstetter or Nava’s Henry Rs, uld have been fodr for meangful at the risk of soundg hopelsly old-school, most bothersome for me is why so many of the characters, most of them gay, are so relentlsly broken. I’m lighted that Vernon has been able to publish wily a crime novel bearg his unique voice and style, to brg formerly stigmatized them and rners of gay culture out of the shadows. But if Vernon had actually challenged the stereotyp he was workg wh and plumbed for tths beneath the easy clichés about gay culture, “Bath Hs” uld have had an impact beyond s sensatnal tails.