The Tin Star | 
| Author: J. L. Langley
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 300
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1596323272
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781596323278
ASIN: 1596323272
Publication Date: August 6, 2006
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Product Description
When James Killian comes out to his father, he finds himself banished from his home and fired from his job. His savior comes in the unlikely form of Ethan Whitehall, his older brother's best friend. Ethan has always had a soft spot where Jamie Killian was concerned, and he will do whatever it takes to keep his new lover safe. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This book contains explicit homoerotic sex that some readers may find offensive.
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 HOT and Sweet October 15, 2008
Michele L. Montgomery (Colorado USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm new to this Genre, and this is the tenth book I've read dealing with M/M love, sex, romance, passion...all the yummy stuff and I have to say that I LOVED every word on every page. I found myself laughing and crying with these characters. The author is gifted in a sense that she brought EACH of her characters to life, giving them all very different personalities. Ethan and Jamie are more than lovers, they are partners in life and that makes the plot more interesting.
Other books in this Genre fail to capture my imagination the way this one has done, some just don't go into detail in the love scenes, some have no sex at all. Isn't that why some of us read these? We want that hotness...
If you're looking for something to help you get through your day, something to add spice with amazing characters...Read this book...I'm off to buy another book from this same author...
"The Tin Star" changed my opinion of Romance Novels September 24, 2008
William Siwicki (Chicago)
When I recently was searching at Amazon.com for a new batch of gay fiction books, "The Tin Star" kept popping up in Amazon's recommendations sections. When it comes to films, I just can't stand Westerns. So I deemed this book, set in the contemporary West on a ranch, of no interest and kept searching and adding other books to my cart. However, during this long search, Amazon was very insistent--"The Tin Star" popped up so many times that I finally decided to give it a look. One click later I saw a book rated very highly by fellow shoppers. I skimmed the very brief description and thought, what the hell, it's a contemporary book not a film set in the Old West, and it sounds interesting. There was a warning about homoerotic gay sex in the description, but that didn't faze me in the slightest. So I bought it. After a very few chapters, I suddenly realized what I was reading: a Romance Novel! I stopped dead in my tracks. How did this happen? What did I miss? I'm actually reading the homosexual version of what you find in grocery store checkout lines?! However, the characters had already grown on me, and there was an excellent and dangerous coming out storyline. And the book was not entirely what I thought a Romance Novel (as opposed to a love story, which I consider VERY different) would be. There's plenty of sex, and it's great sex (and explicit, I must add). But it has a story, and a good one at that. And it features very realistic characters--as opposed to the swashbuckling pirates with long, flowing hair, and chests bigger than garage doors that you see on supermarket Romance Novel covers. "The Tin Star" was a very enjoyable read. It's not a deep, literary work of gay fiction, but it knows what it is and does it very well. This book made me feel unashamed of having read a Romance Novel. And that was quite a task! (I just purchased "The Broken H," another Romance Novel by prolific author J.L. Langley. It's a follow-up to "The Tin Star." What can I say: J.L. hooked me in.)
 Not a must read but certainly an enjoyable reading June 29, 2008
Fab (Suisse)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The plot was actually quite promising. But I quickly got disappointed. The two kind of very "masculine" characters end up being two big queens almost humping each other constantly and in front of everyone. The sex scenes were also too graphical I thought. Overall ok-ish but certainly not great litterature. What I really liked though was the fight for acceptance cause this was quite realistic, especially if put back in the context of rural towns. This is what I would define a good "beach book".
Sexy fun June 25, 2008
Lady in Red (Seattle,WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story about two gorgeous, adorable cowboys in Texas in so engaging and the characters so well-developed you can almost forget it's basically a book of porn and convince yourself you're reading popular fiction - and I mean that in the best way! Jamie grew up as the little brother of Ethan's best friend, John, who is straight. Neither Jamie or Ethan knew the other was gay and when they discover it, and Ethan kindly offers Jamie a place to stay, the sparks fly. They have wonderful chemistry and lots of steamy sex- then their relationship blooms into a sweet, but not too mushy love story. Throw in some crime, drama, and major homophobia (it takes place in small-town Texas after all) and you have the making of an actual interesting plot. It's definitely a guilty pleasure that you will want to read over and over - in between cold showers - yeah!
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