4.0
Second Line
ByPublisher Description
First paperback edition. Brite has a rich and dedicated readership among readers of gay, cooking, horror, and mystery fiction. Brite and her husband, a chef, live in New Orleans. Since Hurricane Katrina she has moved away from fiction. This book features a new author's afterword on these two novels and their writing. "The Value of X" was the first of Brite's novels featuring two chefs, Rickey and G-man, who grow up together, fall in love, and find ways to work together. It was published in a limited hardcover edition by Subterranean Press in 2003 and is out of print. D*U*C*K is a short novel that was published post-Katrina in a limited hardcover edition by Subterranean Press and is out of print. The series has been published by Three Rivers (a Random House imprint) and all have sold 5-10,000 and have a loyal following.
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“I hadn't planned on moving on to this immediately after The Devil You Know, but I found this on ebook at my local library and I wanted to read more about G-man and Ricky. Yes, they've grown on me more than I expected them to. But I guess after three novels and multiple stories that's understandable. I really enjoyed the first novella in this book, the Value of X, it was all about their teenage years when they first become a romantic couple and the ordeal they went through over that. It was a good, long, interesting story and may even be my favorite of the G-man and Ricky stories. The second one, D.U.C.K., is adult G-man and Rickey after the events of the third book, but there's a little too much going on this story. Rickey gets attacked and beaten to start out the story, but that doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest of the book, then there's lots about Shake, a cook at Liquor who becomes head chef at another restaurant. I'm not sure what that had to do with the rest of the story either. I suppose it could tie in to some deeper themes but there wasn't enough correlation or I just missed it. The bulk is all about this duck banquet the Liquor crew are going to cook for. The food all sounds delicious and it was mostly a nice story about them doing what they're best at and how they help each other be successful.
I thought it was interesting the afterward was written after Hurricane Katrina, and talks about how the second story is almost like in a alternate universe where Katrina didn't happen.”
“This whole series is hard to describe but contains some of the most delightful (yet suspenseful, at times) books I've read.”Start a Book Club
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