Book Review: Mindscape, by Andrea Hairston
Mindscape is a book that truly deserves this reissuing, so more people can experience its dynamic characters and its vision of cooperation amid great struggles.
Mindscape is a book that truly deserves this reissuing, so more people can experience its dynamic characters and its vision of cooperation amid great struggles.
I thought the series was done, but over a decade and a half later, a third novel in the series, aptly called The Lords of Creation, has been published, and here we are.
Given this is the final book of a trilogy, I’m breaking this review into two sections: one for readers who have already started the series, but first one for readers who haven’t dived into any of it yet.
Stu is patient with Ezra’s fears and flaws (such as smoking), and he turns out to be an incredible source of strength when Ezra finds out it’s not just his own life he’s fighting to save. There are some really lovely moments in their romance.
Far from discovering that her books have been visited by the suck fairy in the intervening decades since she wrote, I have been excited to realize Jo Clayton’s novels are even deeper, richer, and more rewarding now than I had realized at the time.
So when I received a review copy of a new anthology of gay male romance comics that, per the publicist, “…hearkens back to the days when romance comics topped the sales charts and it enlivens romance novel collections with a fun genre mix, all while joyfully celebrating Pride with its unambiguous focus on cis- and trans men in love by creators who know exactly how it feels.”
Well, I was sold.