Freed: Straight to Gay MM Romance

by Lisa Jones

Dylan’s entire identity – his entire state of being – is wrapped up in being a straight man. It’s the way he’s lived for all of his twenty-one years and is the only thing he knows. Without his cheerleaders and prom queens, without his alpha male jock buddies, and his sense of self-worth that’s tightly interwoven with his perception of masculine heterosexuality, Dylan doesn’t know what to do with himself.


Wesley is unapologetically gay. I’d never say it to anybody else, but I admire that about him. I admire the fact that he is who he is and makes no apologies for it. He’s comfortable in his own skin and is happy doing his own thing. He’s not intimidated by anybody. Lives his life the way he wants to live it – for himself.

278 pages, Paperback

Published September 25, 2019

About the author

I did not write Bulletproof Diva, although I kind of wish I had. Another Lisa Jones wrote that. Please see my blog on the challenges of being an author named Lisa Jones. I have been a journalist for 25 years, specializing in the Rocky Mountain West, but also covering crime, food, travel, spirituality, geese as pets, swamp coolers for cars and the hazards of dating biologists.

My writing has appeared in High Country News, Orion, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Tin House, National Public Radio, the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, the Denver Post, the Christian Science Monitor and the Tico Times (in San Jose, Costa Rica, where I worked for a year.)

She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats. Broken: A Love Story is her first book.

Reviews

[Ed Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the story was ok, although it was a little preachy. I didn’t care much for Wes. Dylan was having a hard time coming out and Wes just kept pushing him. Dylan told him to leave him alone,but Wes just kept grabbing his arm and trying to get him to admit he was gay. He ended up getting punched in the stomach. No one deserves to be hit, but he was being pushy and obnoxious.
When he saw Dylan at the bar with a girl he again went over to him and wouldn’t leave him alone. Gay bashing is never acceptable, but to continue to poke a snake is foolish behavior.

[pollymuz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ebook. The story is good in theory. It has good characters, a heavy subject, good development of ones of the mc's but it just misses the spot.

[John-Torleif Harris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute waste of time

DNF at 42%. Dylan was a rapist in the two interactions that I read, and was a complete waste of space otherwise. There really wasn't anything redeemable about him, and I was very disappointed to look at the end of the book and see that Wes ended up with Dylan.