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Have You Read a Martin Brant Novel Lately?

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Reader reviews from Barnes & Noble.

Five Stars…Great Summer Reading!

Take this one the beach, lake or desert with you. Pull up a chair or blanket and enjoy. I could not put it down. Perfect reading for the summer or anytime. Thank you, Martin!

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Five Stars … A Must-Read Novel!

 Five Married Men is first-rate literary entertainment, and much more. If you are looking for summer reading that grabs your attention, this is it. This novel has believably likable characters, intricate plot development, romance, sex, drama, suspense, humor, and action. There’s something for everyone. More importantly for me, Five Married Men is an honest discussion of male bisexuality. As a bisexual married man who has just recently come out of the closet, I found this book heart-breaking in its accurate portrayal of the challenges that face men like me and their wives. I can’t say how much Martin Brant writes from experience, from thorough research, or from an incredible imagination. But I can say, from MY experience, that his fictional characters are as real as the men I’ve met in support groups, chat groups, and bars. The emotional conflicts, the clandestine meeting arrangements, the fear of discovery that are described in the book are happening all around us every day. Male bisexuality is marginalized in this country. Today’s pop psychologists tell us that there is no such thing as a bisexual man. Even the GLBT community struggles to understand us. It’s high time a book like Five Married Men was published. Maybe it will start some discussions that are overdue. Believe me, there are a lot more bisexual men walking around than you can imagine. If we all came out of the closet at once, the whole gay/straight dichotomy would go the way of the dinosaur. Don’t think for a minute that this book is all gloomy and depressing. It is also very provocative. Because Mr. Brant develops the characters so well, the sex scenes are much steamier than typical gay or straight erotica. If the text doesn’t turn you on, you’ll at least feel empathy for the lovers. Five Married Men is a novel that reassures bisexual men they are not alone, and educates the rest of society.

Five Stars … FIVE MARRIED MEN DELIVERS

 I read Martin Brant’s first book A SONG IN THE PARK a year ago. That novel was excellent. Now I have to say that Martin has topped that one with FIVE MARRIED MEN. The new novel is an erotically charged action adventure, love story with page turning suspense. I found myself caring about what happened to all five of these men as they form a sort of on the down-low club. A secret group. Some bonding stronger than others, but all becoming closer to each other than most men would dare. As with all secrets, the truth comes out. The shattering and thought provoking conclusion left me wanting a sequel. I have to say the reading of this novel was time well spent.

Five Stars … Complete range of emotions!

Having been married to a woman and gay, I identified with the emotions, desires and choices these men made. I like how the author played out the stories of each man and his individual journey. I will look for more from this author!

Five Stars … IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO MISS OUT ON NOT READING THIS ONE

 THE STORY WAS LITTLE BIT HARD TO GET MY HEAD AROUND AT THE START, BUT I HAVE NEVER HAD A BOOK MOVE ME THE WAY THIS STORY HAS MOVED AND UPSET ME LIKE IT DID. I EVEN REREAD THE LAST SEVERAL CHAPTERS TO HOLD ON TO THE MEN IN THE STORY JUST A LITTLE LONGER.

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RICK NC, Five Stars …  THIS BOOK MOVED ME UNLIKE ANY BOOK HAS, I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS I’VE GROWN TO KNOW AND LIKE.

 THE ONLY BOOK THAT I THOUGHT WAS BETTER THAN THIS IS ‘FIVE MARRIED MEN’ AND ‘A SONG IN THE PARK’. THIS AUTHOR HAS A WAY OF MAKING YOU FEEL ALL THE EMOTIONS HIS CHARACTERS FEEL.

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Five Stars … A VERY MOVING STORY THAT TOUCHED MY HEART.

I DOUBT THERE IS A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR THAT WOULD NOT BE WORTH BUYING.

Five stars … A Song In The Park Original and Revised Copy

This was a wonderful and well written love story. I couldn’t put it down until I finished it because it was so good! Love is love no matter what your sexual preference is and this story more than proved it! Great book Mr. Brant! Review for the revised copy below. I read the original story in 2006 and loved it and I love this one too. This one adds a new twist to Michael’s character and it is a situation that not only could happen but has happened to gay men. If you have read the original book you will see that this adds to the storyline with the added details of how, why and when it happened. As I stated in my review from when I read the original book, love is love no matter what your sexual preference is. This is a great story about love, friendship, understanding, being understood, forgiveness, acceptance and tolerance.

Copperas Cove … A Review on Amazon

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***** – Copperas Cove – November 27, 2011

By R. A Rippy “rarippy” (Shelbyville, Tennessee United States)

This story takes place in 1954 during the segregated era. One man is on a journey to get away from his hometown and impending divorce to start a new life. His car breaks down near a small town in Mississippi (Copperas Cove) and he ends up staying there and his life takes a whole new turn. The racial divide is high and he ends up changing the way people think about Blacks by breaking down barriers and stereotypes that still lingered in the town despite it being the time of the demise of segregation. This book has it all that occurred during this era with lynching, beatings, murder and being falsely accused of a crime due to the color of your skin. There is romance and even a hint of homosexuality but as trademark of Martin Brant, it was tastefully done. I am Black and it hurt to read about the injustices done to my people during that time but it did happen and the sad part is that it is still happening today. Due to Martin’s outstanding writing style, while reading this book you will feel as if you are actually there while reading each page. Despite the subject matter, I really enjoyed this book and did not put it down until the last page. Some may be offended about the subject content of this book but it happened so it is what it is.

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A Day on the River

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“I was just thinking …” Justin said, grinning.  “There’ll be no shortage of gossip around headquarters if they find out I got naked on the river with a gay man.”

Michael looked around.  “Seems about as private here as it can get.”

“We’ll see some rafters is about all.  I know most of the guides.”

“We don’t have to get naked,” Michael said, thinking about the rafters he had seen float past his campsite downstream.

“Yeah, we do.”  Justin reached for the buttons on his shirt.  He felt rebellious and intoxicated on the idea of getting naked with his new friend.  It had been a long time since his blood ran warm with a new adventure.  “I’m beyond giving a damn about what everyone else thinks.”

A moment later his shirt was off.  He went for the jeans: the belt unbuckled, the zipper down, his thumbs hooked inside the waistband.  He looked up just before pushing them down his legs.  Michael was standing near the edge of the water, watching him.  Then, with just a hint of reluctance, the jeans and underwear came down his long black legs and he kicked them aside.

Michael closed his eyes for a moment and smiled.  As beautiful as I imagined.  “Okay,” he said, opening his eyes.  His heart quickened.  Justin had decided to let go of his nettlesome inhibitions, and in Michael it had awakened some familiar chemistry.  “You know I’m gay, so do you mind if I just look at you for a minute?”

Suddenly feeling a little numb with modesty, Justin tilted his head forward and rubbed his eyes with his finger and thumb.  The tight curls across his chest narrowed between two pronounced, almost feminine nipples and trailed down over his belly, joining a thick tangle of pubic hair.  His penis, the color of tar, lay over his testicles the length of a man’s finger, the pliant sac drawn tight to his body, the dark pink glans a provocative contrast to the black sheath.  His legs, sparsely covered with the same dark curls as his chest, were muscular and thick for a man of his thin stature.  The image in part and in whole, the shadows and patterns of hair, the nuances that were decidedly male, had come together in Michael’s mind in the form of a most exquisite man.

Justin had not anticipated Michael’s overt request.  Knowing they had planned to disrobe, he had assumed, as the day wore on, they might snatch discreet glimpses of each other; but nothing so openly sensual.  As he stood awkwardly in Michael’s gaze, his heart pounded faster and the sensation of gooseflesh flared across his folded arms.  Awash in self-conscious reticence, unaware of his own masculine beauty, he stood feeling somewhat light-headed; though clearly the unexpected sensations were oddly pleasant.  As Michael’s gaze lingered, Justin pondered the man standing near the river in the late morning sun, the man that was taking visual pleasure in his body with a gaze he could feel on his skin.  His toes curled tight in the soft warm sand and his lungs filled with deep breaths of air fragrant with the smell of the river; and it dawned on him that no one had ever looked at him this way before.

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My First Murder Mystery

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What does Jonathon Scott do when his wife kicks him out of his home after catching him in the shower with another man?

Humiliated, yearning for answers … if only he could meet the right woman, he could get these misguided notions about men out of his head.

He remembers those wonderful pictures of the Gulf coast he saw in a travel magazine. Why not leave Pittsburgh? Why not leave behind the dreary life he has led for the last ten years, and start a new life in the warmer climes of the

balmy South? Why not be free to spend his weekends sipping cold beer on a sunny beach?

Heading south on the narrow two-lanes of 1954 America, there is no reason to believe his destiny awaits him in a small town in rural Mississippi, no way to know that the brutal rape and murder of a popular college girl is going to turn his life upside down and set his stride in an unexpected direction.

Read the first chapter here.

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Bisexual Short Stories

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An Egyptian princess gets an anatomy lesson from her lusty slaves. Former roommates reconnect in the way they had always dreamed. Revolutionaries discover erotic terrain in the battle for American independence. Gym buddies open up to the teachings of the Sex Guru. International diplomats forge a treaty of lustful longing. An orgy ensues backstage at a Shakespeare festival.

A collection of lusty bisexual short stories by Logunede Jones and available at Smashwords for only 1.99.

 

From a Fan in Tennessee

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Martin,

This sequel was amazing! I was hooked from the first page to the last! The direction you took with the sequel has me speechless. I started reading this amazing story at noon and finished a few minutes ago. I could not stop reading until I finished because I had to know the outcome of the trial, and if Michael’s son would finally get over his anger about his dad and if their good friend Collin would live long enough to see the clinic and the new park completed. The trial scene had me on the edge of my seat! The sex scenes warmed me up in a good way. ‘Laughing’ I could not have asked for a better sequel to my all time favorite book written by you! I will be reading this book over and over again like I do ‘A Song in the Park’!

The Sequel to A Song in the Park

A Part of My Soul

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For someone that writes novels, hearing from readers who have enjoyed a book and are asking for a sequel is an author’s greatest reward. I’ve had that privilege with A Song in the Park, so here it is … part two, the sequel.

By the end of their first summer together, having learned Michael has a fifteen -year-old son, Michael and Justin decide their only option is to fly to Boston and bring the boy home to Big Bend.  The boy’s mother, Michael’s best friend in college, had died in an auto accident and his aunt is planning to send him to military school if Michael doesn’t want him.  Just as the realities of raising a teenager begin to change Michael’s life, a ghost from the past comes back to haunt him.  His future medical practise, and his hopes and dreams of building a charity clinic rests on the outcome of a pending trial.  Nevertheless, life goes on in the desert paradise of Big Bend. Not until Michael’s rebellious son meets a girl after he starts school, do things finally start to normalize between father and son.

A tale of two men, of love and relationships both fragile and strong, A Part of My Soul brings back all the familiar faces, the glorious sunsets, the star filled nights and the vast panoramas of far west Texas.

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A Review Recently Posted on Amazon

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A Song in the Park

Don’t let the title fool you: “A Song in the Park” may sound quaint or confined, but the park in question is the enormous Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, and the song is no less than the melody of love in a marvelous arrangement unexpected yet familiar. The protagonists–a surgeon running from a fatal mistake, and a park ranger secluding himself from a failed relationship–overcome their initial surprise at their easy affinity to develop a deep relationship forged in the trials of commitments to profession, family, and community. With an entertaining and well-developed supporting cast, the two main characters literally build their place in the world as they overcome the challenges of bigotry and narrow-mindedness, all in the build-up to a nail-biting climax in which those negative characteristics are personified by a criminal hiding somewhere in the park’s vast desert landscape. This is terrific writing by Brant, with deft treatment of the everyday intimacies that nourish any love relationship (regardless of ethnicity or sexual orientation). In the end, the “song in the park” is a sweet metaphor: the sunny, joyful harmony of something (the park/the couple’s relationship) that is both integrally natural as well as dependent on the care and maintenance of man. Highly enjoyable read with an uplifting message!

A note from the author:

I always appreciate those who take the time to write a review on Amazon.  And since I’m trying to tempt you read my novel, I’ll share them with you here.  Bear in mind much of my personal mail comes from women who have read this tale.   It’s not just men, gay, straight or in-between, who enjoy a thoughtfully written human romantic drama.  The book is available in Kindle format or paperback at Amazon.com.

Martin