Starling Love in Los Angeles Book 1 edition by Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Literature Fiction eBooks
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Hollywood's newest star, 21-year-old J. Alex Cook never wanted to be famous, he just wanted to get out of Indiana. When he hooks up with Paul, a writer on a hit TV show, Alex is thrown into a web of relationships involving friends, lovers, and everything in between.
Forced to figure out what it means to live -- and love -- in the public eye, Alex's quest to find his own happily ever after will make you believe love is possible... even in Los Angeles.
Please be aware, this is a high-heat, high-angst romance and includes characters with a past history of self-harm.
This title was previously published by Torquere Press. This is a newly updated and revised edition.
Starling Love in Los Angeles Book 1 edition by Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Literature Fiction eBooks
A complex, messy, often emotionally wrenching queer celebrity romance series that's so far beyond what the phrase "celebrity romance" brings to mind that I'm almost not sure that's the right term for it. It starts with Starling, in which Alex Cook, 21, is plucked out of the crew on a hit television series and given a starring role. Alex is a deeply private person, scarred from growing up gay and poor in a small, unfriendly Midwestern town, so his life in the media spotlight turns out to be just as comfortable as you'd expect. His sudden fame puts major stress on his co-occurring new relationship with Paul, a gay writer on the show, who has his own issues.Paul and Alex's relationship happens within a social circle / found family that includes Carly, Paul's ex, a bisexual woman who is in a committed open relationship with Alex's co-star Liam, a closeted bisexual man (who initially seems possibly non-neurotypical), who also has a somewhat ill-defined romantic/sexual relationship with frighteningly manipulative showrunner Victor, who is asexual (and Latino, though that doesn't play much of a role in the story).
What sucked me into this series is how it honors the reality that relationships can be really hard and painful, especially when people have experienced trauma, while also supplying meet-cute, sexy, and heartbreakingly tender moments. These characters do hurt each other, make terrible mistakes, and damage their relationships. Paul and Alex even break up/separate more than once. But the authors clearly love every single character, even and especially when they're being self-destructive, and so they give each one people in their lives who have a deep capacity to understand and care for them in various important ways. That caring is one of the most significant characteristics of this series IMHO, even when it's a case of the thought being what counts because the execution is a mess.
The second and third books, Doves and Phoenix, broaden the focus to the relationships among Paul and Alex and those other people, though Alex and Paul are still the central couple. (Paul and Alex consider themselves monogamous in terms of being each other's only primary partner, but if you need your central couple to only sleep with each other once they're together, this isn't for you.) Reduced to a plot summary, this series could sound like a soap opera, but it's much deeper than that. It's about the deeply strange experience of a personal life being public, how to even figure out building relationships in a culture that prescribes only one type, and how to fix things with other people after messing up. Sometimes so hard to read because characters you've come to love are flailing, but well worth it.
The fourth book, Cardinal, has just come out, and it waiting on my Kindle so patiently... :)
Diversity note: McRae and Maltese are both queer.
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Starling Love in Los Angeles Book 1 edition by Erin McRae Racheline Maltese Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I think this is one of the best romances I've read in a very long time. I'm obviously a huge fan of the genre, and I love all of it, but one of the things I loved most about this book is how fresh it felt; it was romance but with a different tone.
I appreciate complex characters, and Alex and Paul (as well as Liam and Victor) were complex. They weren't perfect -- they have baggage and issues and it *shows*. I wasn't just rooting for Alex and Paul's romance -- halfway through the book what I was rooting for most was each character, regardless of what pairing they ended up in.
When the authors first took Alex where they did in DC I had an initial moment of panic because that was not something I generally want to see in a romance novel. But it worked so beautifully. Not just because it was hot and sexy and made a kind of sense, but because it was lovely and transformational and so important to Alex's growth.
On first read, I tore through this. It is well written and has incredibly hot love scenes (oh lord the one with the wine!!). It was also subtle and accessible (or not) on more than one level. There were moments when I read that I was a little frustrated by character dialogue or action because what was happening wasn't immediately apparent.
But that worked so well in the end. Because I wanted to know more. I loved the characters so much, and because I wanted more so I read it again and got to appreciate every moment from the start knowing more about them. This book does an incredible job showing without telling. The authors put a lot of trust in the reader here, and while that might not always work for some readers, it worked for me. I love investing in books I an drawn to reading over and over.
I have been counting down the days until the sequel comes out, and mourning that I have to wait for the third because I love instant gratification. This book is so well worth the read, an absolute five star read.
3.5 Stars
We get a hard earned Happily for Now in this romance about two heroes who have a great deal of emotionial unrepressing to do.
It is a compelling read as the heroes struggle with fame and ambitions and creativity and inexperience in many aspects of their lives.
The age gap is handled with depth. There is a separation which off putting while reading a romance as the heroes get together with other people, it reads true to character and the story.
The writing... in some ways it is great but in others the tone is too removed for me. I feel like I am looking through a peephole at times because of the shut down emotions or swallowed ones anyway and lack of self awareness or rich conversations of the heroes. Not my favorite.
I will check out other books in the series as these writers explore some complex ideas about friendship and love.
A complex, messy, often emotionally wrenching queer celebrity romance series that's so far beyond what the phrase "celebrity romance" brings to mind that I'm almost not sure that's the right term for it. It starts with Starling, in which Alex Cook, 21, is plucked out of the crew on a hit television series and given a starring role. Alex is a deeply private person, scarred from growing up gay and poor in a small, unfriendly Midwestern town, so his life in the media spotlight turns out to be just as comfortable as you'd expect. His sudden fame puts major stress on his co-occurring new relationship with Paul, a gay writer on the show, who has his own issues.
Paul and Alex's relationship happens within a social circle / found family that includes Carly, Paul's ex, a bisexual woman who is in a committed open relationship with Alex's co-star Liam, a closeted bisexual man (who initially seems possibly non-neurotypical), who also has a somewhat ill-defined romantic/sexual relationship with frighteningly manipulative showrunner Victor, who is asexual (and Latino, though that doesn't play much of a role in the story).
What sucked me into this series is how it honors the reality that relationships can be really hard and painful, especially when people have experienced trauma, while also supplying meet-cute, sexy, and heartbreakingly tender moments. These characters do hurt each other, make terrible mistakes, and damage their relationships. Paul and Alex even break up/separate more than once. But the authors clearly love every single character, even and especially when they're being self-destructive, and so they give each one people in their lives who have a deep capacity to understand and care for them in various important ways. That caring is one of the most significant characteristics of this series IMHO, even when it's a case of the thought being what counts because the execution is a mess.
The second and third books, Doves and Phoenix, broaden the focus to the relationships among Paul and Alex and those other people, though Alex and Paul are still the central couple. (Paul and Alex consider themselves monogamous in terms of being each other's only primary partner, but if you need your central couple to only sleep with each other once they're together, this isn't for you.) Reduced to a plot summary, this series could sound like a soap opera, but it's much deeper than that. It's about the deeply strange experience of a personal life being public, how to even figure out building relationships in a culture that prescribes only one type, and how to fix things with other people after messing up. Sometimes so hard to read because characters you've come to love are flailing, but well worth it.
The fourth book, Cardinal, has just come out, and it waiting on my so patiently... )
Diversity note McRae and Maltese are both queer.
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