From the Bookshelf of Q&A with Josh Lanyon

The Boy with the Painful Tattoo
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February 19, 2024
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Natasha
Oct 02, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Review soon!

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This book is gonna rock some serious ass.
I have a good feeling.
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Debbie McGowan
Oct 05, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I'm devastated I've finished reading this, but I stretched it out as long as I could.

What I really like about Lanyon's characters is that they're not perfect. They're very real, deep, funny. Kit is, at times, an irritating, neurotic pain in the arse, but he's also quick-witted and devoted. J.X. is a contradiction - gentle, brave, passionate, adoring, heroic - there are times when I want to lamp him with a blunt object, others where I wish he was mine. That would be the immersive reading experien
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Mich
I am so sad to be finished with this.
I love these boys. Josh Lanyon has a writing style that blows me away. As an M/M reader, I truly feel this is one author who others outside our little genre would love. And damn it if Kit isn't the most "human" character Josh has wrote. I love him, and all his quirks...because as others have also commented on, he reminds us of ourselves.
Unfortunately though, I think my rating is pushed up because of how much I do love Kit and JX.
The fact that this book is p
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Sam
Reread Nov 2019

4.5 stars. I was maybe a little generous in my initial 5 Stars but will retain the rating. I do really like this series (I love being in Kit’s head) and am excited to finally be finishing the series. On to book 4...

First read Nov 2014

Love Josh. Love Kit. Love H&M. Hope there'll be more.
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Erica
Apr 05, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I hate to be so greedy and selfish (no I don't) but I WANT MORE!!!!! More more more. Josh Lanyon, I just adore you. Kit is witty and charming and I just love the way JX handles him. Best book in the series and I hope for many more to come!! ...more
Jamey
Nov 09, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Brenda S
Feb 26, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: m-m-romance
Calico
Jul 14, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: x-mm
Holly
Jan 25, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Lana
Sep 12, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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