Comments on: REVIEW: Adrien English Mysteries by Josh Lanyon

By: EmmieJaynies

EmmieJaynies — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:02:54 +0000

PHEW! I was thinking I’d have to chase up a new copy! I don’t want to miss anything in these books! I can’t WAIT for the new one! *wibbles*

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:45:43 +0000

Sorry, in my ebook volume, both stories are included and my review attempted to cover the course of those two stories.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:25:26 +0000

Adrien and Jake did not consummate their relationship until the 2nd book, ‘A Dangerous Thing’. Like Louise’s comment, I was confused by Jane’s ‘full encounter’ comment in ‘Fatal Shadows’. Unless there has been a reediting of the books since I purchased mine, there was no ‘full encounter’ in the first book between Adrien and Jake. The last scene had them in Adrien’s car with Jake remarking about starting something between them. The end. Let me know if I’m missing something.

By: Books for September « Me and my books

Books for September « Me and my books — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:01:45 +0000

[...] Lanyon’s “Death of a Pirate King” (m/m mystery): After reading the Dear Author review, I bought the first three books in this series, and became completely and utterly hooked. Highly [...]

By: Louise van Hine

Louise van Hine — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:08 +0000

Right, but there was no “full encounter” until months later in the 2nd book, right?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:41 +0000

My ebook copy had both books: Fatal Shadows and Dangerous Thing.

By: Louise van Hine

Louise van Hine — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:47:47 +0000

full encounter at the end of Fatal Shadows?

Did I get a different version? I downloaded the ebook, and the only thing that happened was a cryptic comment in the car. Was there a chapter added to the trade paperback that didn’t exist in the ebook?

The first book had an as-yet-unconsummated relationship in the version I read.

By: Mikaswed

Mikaswed — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:04:38 +0000

I bought “Fatal shadows” from GMP 2000 and now I have 2 versions of Fatal Shadows, A Dangerous Thing and The Hell You Say, because I buy his books as soon as they are publiched and later on I must buy a copie of the reviced books!
I lend Fatal Shadows and A Dangerous Thing to a high school teacher and she orderd 20 copies of each for her english-classes to read and the kids loved them! Today we have the 3 Adrien English books in our town library so Josh have many fans here i Sweden.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:10:56 +0000

I throughly enjoyed reading all three books and they have really stayed with me. He writes so beautifully and I am really looking forward to the 4th book. The latest excerpt of which, on lisabea’s site on left, is just magic every time I read it. Yeah, I have my moss green shirt on…and cap.

By: Murphy

Murphy — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:30:34 +0000

I enjoyed the Matty Sinclair mysteries, too. When I first read Josh Lanyon I was afraid it was going to be another Tony Fennelly, where there were only so many books. Luckily, Josh is very prolific with lots of different characters. He has some new characters coming out at the end of the year with lots of novellas with fun characters.

By: EmmieJaynies

EmmieJaynies — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:32:57 +0000

These books were recommended by a friend, so I bought the first one. Before I’d even finished the first chapter I had to go online and order the other two! From the very beginning, I was captured by the character of Adrien, and he’s now one of my favourite fictional characters. No, re-reading doesn’t make them tiresome, they’re the kind of book (the best kind!)where re-reading just makes you miss those tiny details that you might have overlooked the first time! I’m now anxiously awaiting more of Josh’s work in the post! His writing style is fast-paced and the little thumbnail descriptions of characters are both informative and entertaining. In some ways, the work reminds me of Tony Fennelly’s ‘Matty Sinclair’ mysteries – the first mystery novels I ever really got excited about!

By: Amber Green

Amber Green — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:27:00 +0000

Good reading. Good books to keep on hand, because re-reading doesn’t make them tiresome.

By: Lauralyn

Lauralyn — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:54:54 +0000

Josh Lanyon’s prose is amazingly insightful, delicate, beautiful, and subtle. I love his work, and think it’s always a shame to see people saying they haven’t read it because it’s a gay novel or an M/M romance or a genre piece. This is one writer who should not be categorized, although since he writes mysteries I feel pretty lucky. This is a man who could write DVD player instructions and I’d still pay to read them.

By: nicole kimberling

nicole kimberling — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:01:11 +0000

I truly adore Josh Lanyon. His depictions of complex relationships are fantastic! (And his mysteries are awesome too!)

By: Murphy

Murphy — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:23:09 +0000

I have been reading Josh Lanyon since 1998. His books get better and better. My favorites are the Adrien English Series! They are very witty and fun. I love the Adrien character, I don’t care what he detects as long as he has a story.

By: MB (Leah)

MB (Leah) — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:30:17 +0000

Nice review. This looks really interesting to me. I’ll definitely pick it up.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:22:59 +0000

Although I’m very much *not* a fan of Lanyon’s online voice, it sounds like I would really enjoy these books. There’s something in the narrative voice — as represented in the excerpts, at least — that reminds me of Steve Almond, especially in the dry, self-conscious self-deprecation.

By: Shannon C.

Shannon C. — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:28:31 +0000

Interesting. I have these TBR and it gives me hope that I’ll like them because you did, Jane.

By: lisabea

lisabea — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:24:36 +0000

Adrien is my BFF. ::shakes hat with bells::

YAY for Josh! Now you must read The Hell You Say. Best of the three.

And CJ isn’t anal about Adrien. Huh.

By: carolyn Jean

carolyn Jean — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:18:33 +0000

Oh, boy, I love this series!

I started with Adrien English book #3, THE HELL YOU SAY, and I immediately picked up the first two. Book #3 remains my favorite, but they are all so funny and exciting and romantic, with a little bit of edge. Especially when it comes to Riordan, who is a deliciously conflicted and tortured hero. I am usually somebody who is anal about reading in order, but I liked starting with #3.

I agree about the sparkling narration. In fact, I find it hard almost to write blog entries on Lanyon, because I keep remembering lines I want to put in, and sometimes I feel like it’s all just me quoting lines.

I like Adrien’s emerging detectiveness that you point out. It is really satisfying, but I don’t know why. I often think of this series in relation to Janet Evanovich’s Plum mysteries, though Adrien English is often wittier in a pop culture sort of way, and more poignantly three dimensional than Stephanie Plum, who of course, I always love. But both have that nice amateur detective thing going on. Though where Stephanie uses more persistence and personality, Adrien uses cleverness.