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Mel Bossa

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Born

in Montreal, Canada

Genre

M/m, Contemporary and Historical, Romance

Member Since

August 2011

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I think I've written and changed my bio on here a hundred times in the last decade. See, that's why I don't have tattoos!

I've been a GR for over ten years and I still use it daily to keep up with my reading and to learn about books, old and new ones, but more importantly, because as I grow older and hopefully wiser, I realize that readers are my favorite type of people. They seem to be a little more empathetic and open-minded, and generally more cultivated.

If you look at my shelves, you'll see that I used to read about 70 books a year but in the last years, I've grown more selective and take my time with my lovers, ahem, books.

Yes, I am also a LGBTQ writer and Francophone Montrealer.

I cherish my readers, and want to take this space here ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,713 ratings · 544 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Split (Red and Blue Chronicles, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In His Secret Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Auguries of Summer 3.72 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Craving's Creek 3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linhart's Beautiful Beast 3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Awakenings (Red and Blue Chronicles, #2) 2.90 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sawdust and Berries 3.17 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Dreams (Red and Blue Chronicles #3) 3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No River Wide Enough 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music of the Knight 4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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An Irresistible Mess

Another year. Another book. :-)

Coming soon on October 11th.

This one explores themes of self-destruction and redemption, but though the themes may seem dark, there's a lot of humor and color in the story.

Jett was a great man to write and though you will want to smack him upside his head, you'll probably fall for him as Kaiden does...

Because he is one (hot) irresistible mess!

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Series by Mel Bossa

Red and Blue Chronicles (5 books)
by

Mel Bossa (Goodreads Author)

3.89 avg rating — 672 ratings

Nick & Derek (5 books)
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Mel Bossa (Goodreads Author)

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Mel is Currently Reading

Mel Bossa is currently reading

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

bookshelves: 0008-fiction, 0029-french-romantics, 0023-books-to-read-in-2018, 0007-history, currently-reading

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Mel Bossa said: " Finished this in a state of near mysticism. Jean Valjean's last words as he lay dying surrounded by Cosette and Marius and those candlesticks which started it all...Sublime and heartbreaking.
Review to come as soon as I get my quotes and thoughts tog ...more "

Sep 02, 2018 05:33AM · see review

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Brilliant and soul shattering. On the second read... even more brilliant and soul shattering. I love this play so deeply and I will always carry the characters in my heart.
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Quotes by Mel Bossa (?)

“O'Reilly, I've been running from the worst of myself all my life, and now it looks like the best of me just caught up.”
― Mel Bossa, Split

tags: gutted, m-m-romance

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“O'Reilly, happiness does eventually come, it just needs a lot of foreplay, that's all."

And what better lover could happiness find?”
― Mel Bossa, Split

tags: happiness, m-m-romance

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“I've been thinking about you and all my fucking sauces have been splitting. O'Reilly, everything you don't say speaks to something gentle in me. Something I thought I'd choked.”
― Mel Bossa, Split

tags: m-m-romance

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Mel’s Quotes

“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”
― Paul Monette

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!”
― Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

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