McWarren, Mila. The Luckiest. New York: Interlude Press. 2015. $16.99. 236 p. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-941530-39-9.

This gay love story takes place in Galveston, Texas, where several former high school friends gather to create a masterpiece wedding for two of the straight ones among them. The two main gay characters are Aaron and Nik; they were madly in love with each other in high school, but broke up due to Nik’s inability to accompany Aaron to New York City for college. At this wedding party, they slowly reconnect as lovers. Their reunion is the heart of this novel.

The sex in this novel is nearly non-stop. Writing about sex is not easy and its descriptions often become monotonous, but McWarren does a masterful job. The novel is told in the third person with much dialogue. There is also lots of sensitively-rendered girl talk and interaction among the wedding party’s many female participants.

Collections interested in both gay literature by female authors and current sexual mores among millennials will want this book.

James Doig Anderson
Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University