{"id":2099,"date":"2015-11-24T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2015-11-24T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T08:57:07","slug":"book-review-the-luckiest-by-mila-mcwarren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/book-review-the-luckiest-by-mila-mcwarren\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: The Luckiest, by Mila McWarren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest.jpg\" alt=\"McWarren Luckiest\" width=\"347\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest-317x475.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest-137x206.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/McWarren-Luckiest-140x210.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><strong>McWarren, Mila. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/luckiest\/oclc\/918589037&#038;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">The Luckiest<\/a><\/em>.  New York: Interlude Press. 2015.  $16.99. 236 p. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-941530-39-9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p>Collections interested in both gay literature by female authors and current sexual mores among millennials will want this book.<\/p>\n<p>James Doig Anderson<br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}