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Bourbon Street Blues (Scotty Bradley #1)
by
Greg Herren
During New Orleans' biggest gay celebration, personal trainer and exotic dancer Scotty finds his life taking a deadly turn when one of his best clients is murdered, an old friend returns with a desperate request, and a mysterious FBI agent shadows his every move.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 2004
by Kensington
(first published 2003)
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Good sleazy fun in nothing to be ashamed of. What else could readers require from a gay thriller? Spiced with torrid sex, violent conspiracies, male-strippers, murder and still more torrid sex, Bourbon Street Blues certainly doesn’t lack flavor. Okay, so maybe it’s not for the more sensitive literary palate. After all, the main character’s name is Dick Dansoir. No, really. At least, he calls himself that professionally. “Dick” is an exotic dancer and personal trainer in New Orleans. He’s also qu...more
Though it's hard not to like the story's hero-after all he keeps telling us he's irresistable--the real star of the show here is New Orleans. The author clearly knows and loves his city and presents it here in affectionate detail. He's captured its breezy fun-loving spirit in his characters and the plot. That in itself is enough to make this book a fun escapist read. It doesn't go far enough to be any more than that, though. It splits the difference between comedy and thriller. The plot takes fo...more
Being the first book in a new series you could almost forgive the author for the meandering start to this book with the need to set up the scene, conditions, locations etc, but personally I found it a little confusing until the mystery story started proper. When finally we got to the "meat" of this book (and no I am not talking about Frank - who I personally would love to meet!) the story took off like a roller coaster, not knowing for sure who were the goodies and who were the baddies until wel...more
A quick and zany romp through New Orleans' gay pride festivals, with your tour guide, a male exotic dancer and part-time personal trainer. So cute!
I really liked the main character and his cast of friends and family--especially his two siblings, both of whom have coped with their parents' super-hippy upbringing in very different yet totally believable ways. I adored Scotty hooking up with his gorgeous dancing burgling friend, even if I thought his other romance was a little less believable.
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I really liked the main character and his cast of friends and family--especially his two siblings, both of whom have coped with their parents' super-hippy upbringing in very different yet totally believable ways. I adored Scotty hooking up with his gorgeous dancing burgling friend, even if I thought his other romance was a little less believable.
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New Orleans is a frequent go-to of authors, especially paranormal romance and urban fantasy writers, who do their best to capture all its uniqueness and exotic flavors, but few get it right. Few do the Crescent City justice and make it pop off the page. Greg Herren's "Bourbon Street Blues" shows us how it's done. He describes the city with the intimacy only a native would have, making it sizzle and snap off the page.
"Bourbon Street Blues" introduces us to Scotty Bradley aka Dick Dansoir, a pers...more
"Bourbon Street Blues" introduces us to Scotty Bradley aka Dick Dansoir, a pers...more
This is Greg Herren second detective series. This one features Scotty Bradley, exotic dancer, private trainer, youngest child of hippy parents who makes his home in New Orleans. Scott is a healthy young man, completely at ease with his body, his mind and his life. Being gay is just what he is. No drama here. No family drama. His parents are more marginal than he is. The plot is centered around right wing activists that want to blow up NO during the big gay festival. Scotty gets involved innocent...more
I really enjoyed this book. It was campy in places, and the sex wasn't as hot as a romance novel, but, then, it is more of a detective novel without the actual PI. I honestly liked the characters, secondary, as well as main. This would make a great weekend at the beach or ride on the train read.
The cover doesn't do the book justice. I like Scotty, he's bright, clever and a hard worker, though he has the ability to get himself into trouble... But then the book wouldn't be any fun otherwise, right?
3.5 stars. Good gay mystery about about an unrepentantly slutty personal trainer and go-go dancer who inadvertently comes across some information that someone's willing to kill to retrieve.
Summer time beach reading, fluff
Because I'm not currently accepting applications for anymore gay boyfriends, I started reading this series and I really, really love the charactor Scotty. I can't wait to read the second. It's not exactly litrature but it's enjoyable. The city of New Orleans is a second charactor, also a big plus for me. The sex scenes are fairly graphic so if you're uncomfortable, maybe not for you.
This is Greg Herren second detective series featuring Scotty Brady. I found the writing awkward and didn't really like the campy attitude of the first person narrator. I was very disappointed because I really wanted to like it.
This easily could have been a four (or even five star) rating if it had not fallen apart at the end. Still, it boasts a lot of quality elements which hopefully carry forth in subsequent offerings.
Another of those guilty pleasures however I think that gregs writing gets better book by book.
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Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he is also a co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every May. He is the author of ten novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune “the most honest depiction of life in post-Katrina...more
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