Love Most Inconvenient by D.J. Manly

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In a way the three stories in this anthology are very related, other than being by the same author. All the three couples are made by a small in body but with a sparkly behavior man and by a strong man but with a gentle heart.

No Vacancy: Manuel is an undercover cop that one night comes back home after some week to find his room sub-letting to a stranger. John is a wanna-to-be actor who didn't know the romm he was renting was not free from his former occupying. When he awakes at night to find a man intruding in his room, he thinks first at a thief and then at a molester. After the shock, John is quite ready to arrive at some pact with the handsome big man... even more when he discovers that Manuel is a cop, and so a good man. Manuel is not the classical tough cop, he is a big man but with a gentle soul, and he just had a bad experience in love, with another actor. So he is not so ready to be involved with another man in the category, even more when John behaves like a man with a very small brain. But John is not so bad, he is quite innocent, if not in body, in mind: he is friendly and sensitive, he also tries to put a patch between Manuel and his former lover, and only when Manuel makes clear that he is not interested in his ex boyfriend, only then John makes a move on him.
 
Right Before My Eyes: Paul is a young man who is dreaming Mr Right. The first time he meets Mario, he thinks to have found him, but then a stupid event makes him think that Mario is a man-eater, and so Paul has not the courage to bring their relationship to a next level. Mario remains on the side and Paul moves on the next Mr Right, Phil. Phil is not so handsome like Mario, he is more like Paul, an average man who Paul thinks has the same idea on life. But when Phil reveals to be a cheater of the worst breed, Mario is right there to support and comfort Paul, but Paul again has not the force to take his chance on him. In this story Paul, with his stubbornness in finding Mr Right and always ending with nothing in hands, is only lucky to have a man like Mario. Mario is true and sincere, he maybe suffers of the sentence to be too handsome, and so people think that he can't suffer for love, since he can't being real in love.

My Name is Dane: Mark is the only "straight" man of his family... straight in the meaning that he always behaves according the law, and instead his father and brother are at the edge of it. When his little sister accuses her boss to be the father of her unborn child, Mark's brother kidnaps the culprit... a very handsome and big man. But Dane, this is the name of the hunk, claims that he is not the right man, that he can't be Julie's baby's father  since he is gay! And Mark is quite interested in that information, since he is pretty drawn by the man, even if he doesn't believe to his sincerity. But Dane not only is not the man Mark's believes he is, he is not even the man he pretends to be... this short story is a play of hidden cards that come out at the most unexpected moment.

A very enjoyable anthology, with three stories one better than the other, even if, to me, Mario and Paul's pair is the best. Another common event in all the stories, is that the sex is joyous and easy, without complications.

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