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A Five Boroughs Story
Michael Rodriguez and Nunzio Medici have been friends for two decades. From escaping their dysfunctional families in the working-class neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens, to teaching in one of the city’s most queer-friendly schools in Brooklyn, the two men have shared everything. Or so they thought until a sweltering night of dancing leads to an unexpected encounter that forever changes their friendship.
Now, casual touches and lingering looks are packed with sexual tension, and Michael can’t forget the feel of his best friend’s hands on him. Once problems rear up at work and home, Michael finds himself seeking constant escape in the effortless intimacy and mind-blowing sex he has with Nunzio. But things don’t stay easy for long.
When Michael’s world begins to crumble in a sea of tragedy and complications, he knows he has to make a choice: find solace in a path of self-destruction or accept the love of the man who has been by his side for twenty years.
- Sales Rank: #62167 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-31
- Released on: 2015-07-31
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Having two sexy, dirty-talking alphas wrestle their strong feelings for each other is mouthwatering." -- RT Book Reviews
"Hassell doesn't sugarcoat his vibrant characters, making them as gritty as the Queens neighborhood in which they grew up... There are plenty of steamy sex scenes; overall, a welcome addition to romance collections in urban libraries." -- Library Journal
"Santino's voice stands out in a talented genre. SUTPHIN BOULEVARD is full of grit, incredibly sexy, and will leave readers smiling as Michael finds his way to love and health." -- Megan Erickson, author of TRUST THE FOCUS
"The chemistry between these two fairly sizzles the pages. This book is sexy. The love scenes are dirty in all the best ways." -- Fiction Vixen
"It's a book that makes you want to read it over and over again, and I've read its final pivotal and epiphanous scene so many times I almost know it word for word now." -- The Novel Approach Reviews
"The men are so comfortable with each other that physical intimacy becomes effortless and there is no one that knows you like a childhood friend. The men are dirty, filthy, and perfect together." -- Joyfully Jay Reviews
"I love Santino's style of writing, which is definitely not slushy, or overtly romantic, he expresses emotion in a very visceral way, which stays with you a long time." -- Prism Book Alliance
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing, gritty, powerful
By Elsa Gabriela
Before I started this book I knew I should expect dark and gritty. I knew I should expect roller coaster feelings. I knew I should expect out of this world hot sex scenes... I got all of this. What I did not expect was to be hit so hard by this story.
Have you ever read a book and found a character and said... Oh, hell! I've been there. I've seen this. I've felt that. I've thought that exact same thing... And then realize how difficult, and how painful is to find yourself in that character, because mirrors show you everything, and sometimes what they show you isn't pretty. Sometimes what they show you, hurts. But, also, what they show you makes you grow, and makes you understand, and sometimes it's a huge wake up call.
Sutphin Boulevard is told from Michael's POV. This amazing guy, with his witty remarks, and his I give zero fecks attitude won me over, but not for the usual reasons. You see, I feel like queer literature in the M/M romance subgenre is full of white knight heroes. You know, the awesome gay guy that everyone loves. He's usually funny, cute, very composed, sexy as hell, and most of the times, pretty much... flawless. This is good, I don't mind... But I want complex. I want to read about a man that has many facets. I want to read about a man that is strong but at the same time falters. I want to read about his life, his thoughts, his fears, his ambitions, his dreams, his passion, his love. When I read a book, I want to be able to relate. Hassell gave me a character I could relate to. He have me a character that relfected not only bits of me, but bits of those I love. Those who, like Michael, have been lost, and have struggled. Those who, like Michael, thought that they had it all under control, when in reality they were disappearing in a world of thoughts and fears, and regrets.
While this is Michael's journey, he doesn't travel alone. Nunzio and Michael have been friends for twenty years. Ever since they met as kids they have been inseparable. Nunzio is Michael's rock, his strength (and vise-versa). Nunzio is much more relaxed, he's caring, and he's a loving guy, but he's also incredibly strong. He is gorgeous, and incredibly patient. Having loved your best friend for so long, and keeping it to yoruself until the time is right, when he realizes that there is much more between the two of you than friendship, takes a lot. I loved how selfless, yet centered Nunzio was. I loved that despite that deep love that he has for Michael, he knew when to step aside, and let Michael go so he could fix whatever needed to be fixed. You see, Michael is dealing with addictions, and at some point Nunzio knows that he needs to step aside for a bit (while still being there in some way) so Michael can put himself together. There no heartbreaking, pre-fabricated scenes with tons of I love yous and tons of promises... But there is one man, asking for time and patience to put himself together and fight his way back to the top, and there is another man silently taking in those words and having an enormous amount of faith in the person he loves the most. That is love. That is true love. That is the kind of love that we all should aspire to. The kind of love that with simple actions and words tells us all we need to know. When you drown, when you get lost somewhere and are trying to find you, the world still spins. People continue with their lives and it's in no one else but in yourself to collect the pieces of who you were and try to place them together to become who you will be. After a very dark and painful experience, Michael understands this. There is no magic recipe to dissolve or eliminate his problems, no magic words. There is only himself, and his determination. He is his own savior, his own white knight. I loved this, and I loved it because this is how things are in real life. I loved this because it's the only way it would really work. It's the only way that the change would become permanent.
Even though everything we learn about Nunzio is through Michael's eyes, we really get to know him well. The writing is so brilliant that it delivers every little detail and emotion that BOTH of the MC's are experiencing in an outstanding way. Their relationship is strong, and beautiful. It carries that unspoken trust and strong bond that long term friendships have, and that when they turn into that raw, desperate, passionate, love, it becomes explosive. The sex scenes are hot. So. Incredibly. Hot. The way they touch each other, breathe each other, feel each other. The way they want to possess and live the other person is absolutely mesmerizing.
There is much more to this book than romance. While romance plays a part here, the truth is that what we find here is the story of a man as a whole, with all its parts. Michael is Puerto Rican. As a Mexican woman, I must say that I loved the portrayal of the Latin culture in this book. I have to say that this is by far the best I've read in this genre. The portrayal of family relations was very accurate where cultural representation is concerned. There were so many things I read in this book that took me back to my childhood or teenage years and filled me with all kinds of emotions because it was painted so well. It felt real.
This is not your typical M/M Romance book. Santino takes risks, all the risks you can imagine. He tells this story with a beautiful, powerful and captivating prose, and strong, defined characters.
Discover New York through the eyes of diversity, through the eyes of a Puerto Rican man that bares his soul to you through Hassell's words. Discover his battles. Discover the man he loves, Nunzio, and his enigmatic blue eyes. Discover two men that hold on to each other, and save each other multiple times without even consciously knowing it. Let them break you and put you back together.
Live their journey. It's so much worth it.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is—Anaïs Nin
By Lenore
Sutphin Boulevard explores and unpeels such concepts as identity, belonging, conforming to social and cultural roles and norms, the family we're born in and the family we make for ourselves, and finding the strength and the courage to put ourselves back together when we hit rock bottom, choosing a constructive rather than a destructive path forward.
This is predominantly Michael's story. Paired with the naturally gritty writing style, Michael's no-nonsense first-person narration opens a window to his soul, revealing him as a compelling, fascinating character who, despite his many sharp flaws and his few blunt virtues, manages to instantly win you over and make you root for him. He is the Puerto Rican firstborn son who was raised to always put family first, no matter how dysfunctional that family might be, or how many parts of himself he had to conceal to maintain their approval. Constantly oscillating between his sense of duty to his family and the life he's chosen for himself away from them, Michael struggles to straddle both worlds, making one mistake after the other, following a self-destructive descend into despair and addiction.
But Sutphin Boulevard is equally Nunzio's story. It's a testament to the power of this book that it makes you feel so much and so profoundly understand a character who doesn't get point of view. Nunzio has so many facets. He is unconditional love, and searing lasciviousness, and bounteous generosity, and overwhelming hope, and absolute forgiveness. Nunzio is the lover you dream about, unbearably sexy and beautiful, caring about you alone, making you the centre of his universe. And at the same time he's the blessed friend you want to deserve. A constant force, the rock propping you up, a companion to both your vulnerabilities and your triumphs, walking with you, accompanying you, believing in you, even when you don't believe in yourself or you think you deserve it—even when you break his heart. Nunzio conquered my own heart and he'll hold a piece of it forever.
Effortlessly authentic and unpretentiously diverse, Sutphin Boulevard is a tapestry of cultural and social perspectives and an antidote to the stereotypes prevailing in queer romance, while at the same time revisiting, celebrating, and encapsulating the essence of one of romance's recurring themes—that of friends becoming lovers.
For me, it is ultimately a book about the power of love—this ever-shifting force so many people keep chasing without truly grasping it. In a city and an age where artificial semi-connectedness is the norm, Michael and Nunzio share the rare gift of true love born through true friendship; the intimacy that grows from a shared childhood, from living and then working in close proximity for over twenty years. They get each other, they understand each other's inner workings—they're soulmates.
This book is Santino's love letter to New York City; a love letter to his roots and his adopted culture. A letter to his past (and current and future) self. This is Santino's most honest, most personal work yet. This is Santino's BEST work yet, and it's exceptionally done.
Read it. Experience it. Cherish it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Superbly written queer romance
By E C
(Really 4.5 stars, but Amazon doesn't let me do halves)
So I'm not going to talk plot details with this one, it's pretty much all there in the blurb. I'm going to talk about why I think this is a good book, and an important book.
At its heart, this is a book about friendship and the different forms of love between people. The lines between these, in my view, blur a lot more in the queer community than in hetero relationships, so a book about same-sex relationships in a fascinating place to explore this. Bear with me as I get pretentious as hell here: the ancient greeks identified 3 different kinds of love: philia - familial love between siblings, parents and children, and the like, agape: basically the idealised form of love abstracted - charity, the mutual support between spouses (as opposed to the sexual love between them), and eros - sexual love. This book shows the blurring between the three in an utterly fascinating way.
So Michael and Nunzio, the main characters, are friends. Have been for 20 years. They de facto live together, work together, and for a variety of reasons Nunzio is also functionally part of Michael's family. The overarching plot is about the two of them going from friendship and mutual support to a loving sexual relationship together. The road by which they get there is scorching hot (Hassell can really write a sex scene), emotional, and affecting. With, of course, a few bumps in the road.
There's a similar dynamic going on between Michael, Nunzio, and David, who they hook up with in the first chapter. This sort of dynamic, hookups becoming friends, friends you have sex with, friends you develop feelings for, exes you stay friends with etc is so real in my experience of the gay community. Too much m/m is terrified to have the protagonists have a visible sexual past, which simply is not the way most gay social circles work.
Finally, there's an interesting little side plot going on with Michael's brother Raymond, who is about my favourite character in the book. Directionless, a little useless, but a really good heart, and not as dumb as his xbox-and-weed persona would have you think. I'm pleased to see he's one of the protagonists of book 2 in this series, and look forward to reading where his life goes.
Hassell is quite well known for his (co-written) freely available In the Company of Shadows series. And while I quite like ICoS, don't come to Sutphin Boulevard expecting that. This is an order of magnitude better and a very different book. It is closely observed and handles difficult issues with a light touch. Aside from some lingering frustration with some of Michael's life choices (which may be the point - I suspect they're supposed to be frustrating), I really like pretty much everything about this book.
Highly recommended.
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