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Gay Youth Chronicles Complete Chronology #14
Just Making Out
Just Making Out is the story of adolescent lovers, a high school boy facing adult responsibilities, and a dead high school football player...all following the dreams of their hearts and just making out... Dane and Tim are in love. Dane's parents and Tim's older brother do their best to keep them apart, but the teenaged lovers are determined they'll find a way to be together. Just when life gets better for the pair, Dane's old nemesis, Boothe, appears in town with an insane warning about a ghost. The warning turns out not to be so crazy when Jacob, a dead high school football player, haunts Dane. The situation becomes more complex as the ghost slowly becomes more human and expresses an intimate interest in Dane. Tim is at first hurt by the growing relationship between Jacob and Dane, then frightened for his boyfriend's very life. Can he save Dane from the ghost hunk or will he uncover Jacob's dark secret too late?Shawn has finally gained the attention of his dream boy, but making Tristan his boyfriend is another matter entirely. To complicate matters, Shawn is responsible for his younger brother. Can he make a relationship with Tristan work while he's juggling high school, two-part time jobs, and his new parental responsibilities?
446 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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Mark A. Roeder
99 books211 followersMark A. Roeder grew up in southern Indiana - near a small town similar to those that appear in his novels.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
July 10, 2015
This book was so... sexy. I really love Shawn & Tristan and how their relationship was built up. The stuff with Jacob was a bit strange and I was really worried there at the end but thankfully things didn't turn out as bad as I thought they would.
June 16, 2025
Wonderful Story!
This has got to be one of the best series of books talking about life and emotions, challenges, and struggles that teens and we all face. I am hooked on this author's writing and hope to read more. The story brings you ringside Into the world of these high school kids. It could be any place in the world. Reding them brings me back to my younger years and the issues I faced and that doesn't have to do with just what sexuality you are. It's like reading a page of history. We all worried about acceptance, jobs, and our friends and saw many in school as extended family. So many points in this story were life for many, that these books will live years forward.
This has got to be one of the best series of books talking about life and emotions, challenges, and struggles that teens and we all face. I am hooked on this author's writing and hope to read more. The story brings you ringside Into the world of these high school kids. It could be any place in the world. Reding them brings me back to my younger years and the issues I faced and that doesn't have to do with just what sexuality you are. It's like reading a page of history. We all worried about acceptance, jobs, and our friends and saw many in school as extended family. So many points in this story were life for many, that these books will live years forward.
May 15, 2011
Just finished this and gotta say... Mark's done it again.
Another good story with interesting characters that I care about. Perhaps its just that we share a geographic bent (I grew up a gay boy in a semi-rural area in the midwest - - Though I was a few years ahead of these guys in school.)
There are some common themes in all of Mark's books and he's a better storyteller than he is writer sometimes but I still enjoy everything he writes and want to gobble up his books like peanuts. Also he's getting to be a better writer with every book. I recently started The Soccer Field is Empty (again for the umpteenth time) and noticed how much his writing has improved since then. I sometimes wish that his characters wouldn't dwell on an issue over and over. In reading it, it seems like repetition but its actually more like what happens in real life.
Being an eldest brother I particularly liked Shawn and Tim's relationship in this book. Personally though, I was kinda pulling for Shawn and Marc's relationship to surprise us, but as it was, it was still enjoyable. Still wanna see somebody take the piss outta Blake though.
Another good story with interesting characters that I care about. Perhaps its just that we share a geographic bent (I grew up a gay boy in a semi-rural area in the midwest - - Though I was a few years ahead of these guys in school.)
There are some common themes in all of Mark's books and he's a better storyteller than he is writer sometimes but I still enjoy everything he writes and want to gobble up his books like peanuts. Also he's getting to be a better writer with every book. I recently started The Soccer Field is Empty (again for the umpteenth time) and noticed how much his writing has improved since then. I sometimes wish that his characters wouldn't dwell on an issue over and over. In reading it, it seems like repetition but its actually more like what happens in real life.
Being an eldest brother I particularly liked Shawn and Tim's relationship in this book. Personally though, I was kinda pulling for Shawn and Marc's relationship to surprise us, but as it was, it was still enjoyable. Still wanna see somebody take the piss outta Blake though.
May 22, 2013
Good, but a it felt like it took a little too long getting to the ghost part, then it was over in a flash.
This one was waaaay better about not droning on and on (and on and on) about miniscule details about every teeny little thing though the characcters encounter though, like the color of the walls, the texture of the drape, blah, blah, blah, for which I was extremely thankful. : )
This one was waaaay better about not droning on and on (and on and on) about miniscule details about every teeny little thing though the characcters encounter though, like the color of the walls, the texture of the drape, blah, blah, blah, for which I was extremely thankful. : )
June 13, 2013
The saga continues, focused on Dane & Tim and Shawn & Tristan, with Jacob the ghost for suspense. The pace is rather slow, again reading more like a romantic chronicle than a thriller. The young gay characters are interesting as they mature and the sexual tensions feel real, if the community acceptance still feels more like a fantasy.
July 19, 2011
Loved this book, I think Brandon and Jon should become a couple! Does anyone know if in the later books that happens? This is book at of the series and there are 23 books total.
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