If you ever feel like a novel about a gay guy marrying a straight girl he hates just for the gifts and money they will get from each other’s family, his being the New York mafia from his mother’s second marriage and hers from some fake dutchess living in England who should be paying for the wedding but since she is fictional, is played by some coked up drag queen brought in only to make outrageous excuses for the mafia family to actually pay and who really cannot function unless she is high on a mixture of coke and Ecstasy but once totally relaxed manages to charm the balls of this “one-foot-in-the-grave” mobster family don with a penchant for Harlequin like novels and who will kill the gay guy if he finds out the rumours about him being gay are true, making all this difficult because the gay guy being an ass has also enraged an older gay man by stealing his boyfriend 6 months prior to the big wedding plan and who in return is now in a position of blackmailing our main gay guy for money in exchange of dirty pictures he has obtain of this main gay guy and his best friend naked in bed in the middle of the act who was only there to try and help him out even if he couldn’t keep his pants on long enough to think of the consequences of their silly secret rekindled romance but who in returns finally enlist the help of his composer/partner/girl-friend with has an amazing knack for solutions to some tough problems, then you should read Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan.
That book is all that and much more…
Total fun I tell you!
I have also read Putting On The Ritz by the same author and it is an equal rollercoaster of laughter and comedy of errors, I swear, I really laughed out loud reading these books.. I’m so looking forward to My Lucky Star, his latest, but that will have to wait until aftre I’m done with the books my hubby gave me on my special day.
Ah, yeah, Joe Keenan is also responsible for the most amazing Frasier episodes, you will recognize his timing and style easily.
Happy reading.