Henry Morgan is a beer-drinking, arm-wrestling, 100% heterosexual American male who is still a little numb after a rough breakup from his longtime girlfriend. Ty Stanton is a bohemian arts student who has been openly, and uncomplicatedly, gay ever since he asked for his first wig for Christmas. After a chance, butterfly-inducing encounter one autumn day, Henry starts to realize something strange: … something strange: he might not be quite as straight as he’d always assumed. What follows is a breakneck adventure that upends both Ty and Henry’s lives for the long haul.
Sexy, fun and thought provoking, Seth King’s Straight is about all the love we can let into our lives when we dare to jump off the beaten path and veer a little off course.
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This story blew me away! I don’t see many same sex romance books out there like Seth King has provided us with here. This is a down to earth, bury deep into your heart story. To see a man like Henry decide to follow his gut and heart and just live was heart wrenching from time to time seeing him battle with his decisions. Society is so judgmental and unfortunately I don’t see that ever being overcome completely. Ty is and so confident with himself we see the battles he still faces, the fact that he has a heart of gold and stands his ground for what he believes makes me cheer him on non stop. One of my favorite sentences in this story that are 100 percent on point states that “love doe not exist between men and women…. Love exists between humans” this story brought me to tears in the end and I’m making my way to the next book because these men have made their way into my heart and I need to follow them through to the end. Everyone needs to read this book and hear their story, heterosexual or gay you will be pulled in instantly and be hooked and even have your eyes opened up to views you never put much thought into before. This is my unbiased and voluntary review.
DNF
Alrighty, I tried. I really tried but I just couldn’t finish this.
Because I did not finish this, I will keep this short and sweet, ok well not so sweet, but you get it.
Henry is 100% straight but that all changes when Ty sits next to him on the bus.
Ty is 100% gay and sparks up a very flirtatious conversation that let to the two wanting to meet up. And from there, it all went downhill for me.
I felt like I was dealing with 16-year-olds, or at least guys with the mental state of a 16-year-old, 99% of the time.
Their relationship was . . . . I have no words. I didn’t get it. It really was like a teenage “we are / we aren’t” in a relationship.
Henry drove me crazy, and I honestly can not pinpoint what it was but I found myself getting super frustrated with him as the story progressed.
Ty, on the other hand, I wanted to smack upside the head with his “Gay Lessons” *insert eye roll*
Do not get me started on Ty. SMH!
Talk about a contradiction to the fact he says a number of times that the LGBT community is very excepting and then he continuously changes Henry because he wasn’t what he classed as “gay”. He doesn’t dress, talk, act, or even watch tv like a “gay guy.” Argh!!
This is more of an insta-gay-for-you story with super over the top everything that for me, wasn’t a good thing. It left me with a headache from rolling my eyes.
The good part about the story? Seth can write hot sex/sexual scenes. Sorry but that’s all the good I got from this one.
How do you review a book that is not a book? That is the ultimate question. Because Straight isn’t a book. It is life. Seth King took his heart and he poured it onto the pages. He broke through so many barriers, he asked so many questions. There’s a reason I believe Seth King is a God. Because no one, can make me feel like he does.
Straight tells the story of Henry Morgan and Ty Stanton. But it does more than that, it opens the reader to a whole new world.
We might think we are accepting of everyone and everything. We might think that we are progressive, but in the truth of things, we are not.
I feel like the female version of Henry, I don’t judge or have any prejudices about any one race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual status. But, does that make me a bystander? Am I uneducated, even though I try to stay on top of issues I really care about?
With Straight, you don’t just get the romance, you get the hardship of a new relationship, of a new culture. The LGBTQ community is a culture that those of us who aren’t in it, we could never understand. Because we are hard-wired to believe what society tells us is acceptable. Even if we think we don’t, or aren’t.
Seth King used his book to help bridge that gap, to help open our eyes, to help those who are struggling.
Many controversial topics are brought up in this book, and they are all relevant. I didn’t understand a lot of the impact that recent events have brought about, I knew of some of it of course, but I never knew the full extent. While I was dying for Straight so I can read the love story, I realized that I am a different person with different feelings now that I’ve read it.
I’ve enjoyed everything from high-school romance, to PNR, to M/M. And I’ve read almost all of Seth’s books, He’s made me feel in every single one. But never like this one.
Straight isn’t just about Henry questioning his sexuality and where he fits into the world. It’s everyone trying to figure out where we stand now.
Straight will make you wonder. It will make you love. It will make you hurt. Seth King has brought life into his words, and he has slayed me. Between working and having to start and stop a few times, it took me approximately eight hours to read Straight. Those are eight hours I never want back.
I want to read Straight again and again. I want everyone to read this book, so they can understand, even a fraction of what this book is.
Book Talkers, I’ve never been one to lie in a review, everything I say is honest. When Straight is published I will pimp it hard, I’m already pimping it hard. When I say you need to experience this book, I mean it.
Do not pass this up. If you do, you will be missing out on a valuable life lesson.
If you feel like this world is too full of hate, too full of uneducated people, too full of sorrow. Then pick up Straight. It will hurt, it will make you question yourself, but it will be worth it.
All the tears I have shed are worth it.