From the Bookshelf of Q&A with Josh Lanyon

The Boy with the Painful Tattoo
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Start date
October 5, 2014
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October 31, 2014
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What Members Thought

L4dyGrey
Perfectly written....

Wholly crap!!!! Can't wait.... Publish, publish, publish! I love JX and Kit!!!!!
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Grace
Oct 26, 2015 rated it really liked it
Caved and bought this one last night and happily not regretting it!

I really enjoyed this one even better than the last. I feel like the Kit and J.X. finally hit their stride, so to speak, and even though there are plenty of bumps in this one as well, it's obvious that they are both really in it. I really adore Kit's voice, and I really loved his vulnerability, and increasing self-awareness as he realized just how much he wanted to keep this thing with J.X. and sort of starts making an increasing
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Marge
I loved the first two books in this series, but this one is even better. Kit and JX's relationship evolves and we can see Kit growing as a character, too. And the ending was NOT the traditional abrupt Lanyon ending, but a bit more drawn out, so that I gave a happy sigh as I finished.

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Alexandra
Dec 25, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: mm
WHAAAAT. That's what I think every time I swipe left on a Lanyon ebook and discover I have reached the end.

Perhaps because I started this series in audiobook format, I found it hard to match what I was reading with narrator-Kit's voice. But that's fine, it only makes me look forward to Kevin R. Free's performance.

There was some line J.X. said about never having wanted something as much as he had Kit? I'm not going to lift it out of the text, but the wording seemed very similar to something Adrie
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Dianne
Sep 30, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Review to come...
E
Nov 30, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: top-of-the-list, m
It was great! I loved being inside Kit's head as he was finally honest with himself about how he feels about JX. And there was everything else that make Lanyon's books too good to be true: sarcasm, mystery, witty dialog, hot hot hot sex, (view spoiler), insecurities, humor and well you know THE HOT SEX! ...more
Lillian Francis
As much as Kit drives me to distraction (for a variety of reasons) I do love these two.

Janice
Dec 23, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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May 09, 2013 rated it it was ok
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