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    Bad Boyfriend

    By K.A. Mitchell

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    A Bad in Baltimore Story
    Bad in Baltimore: Book Two

    Causing trouble has never been more fun.

    Eli Wright doesn’t follow anyone’s rules. When he was seventeen, his parents threw him out of the house for being gay. He’s been making his own way for the past five years and he’s not about to change himself for anyone’s expectations. For now, romance can wait. There are plenty of hot guys to keep him entertained until he finds someone special.

    Quinn Maloney kept the peace and his closeted boyfriend’s secrets for ten years. One morning he got a hell of a wake-up along with his coffee. Not only did the boyfriend cheat on him, but he’s marrying the girl he knocked up. Inviting Quinn to the baby’s baptism is the last straw. Quinn’s had enough of gritting his teeth to play nice. His former boyfriend is in for a rude awakening, because Quinn’s not going to sit quietly on the sidelines. In fact, he has the perfect scheme, and he just needs to convince the much younger, eyeliner-wearing guy who winks at him in a bar to help him out.

    Eli’s deception is a little too good, and soon he has everyone believing they’re madly in love. In fact, he’s almost got Quinn believing it himself….

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateFeb 20, 2018
    ISBN9781640804166
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    Bad Boyfriend
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    K.A. Mitchell

    At a very early age, K.A. Mitchell decided that Ken and G.I. Joe made a much cuter couple than Ken and Barbie and was perplexed when invitations to play Barbie fell off sharply. Today she still loves hanging out with imaginary friends and making up stories. Even better, people pay her to read about them. Now the author of over twenty-five gay romances, she guarantees happy endings for even the surliest of heroes, despite all their baggage.

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    • 3/5
      I wanted to love this book, the writing was good, characters interesting so where did my love go? I would have to say the plot and lack of conflict between Quinn and Eli. They had one fight, that's it. There should have been more angst. Quinn and Eli were so different there would have been a greater conflict. But page after page of steamy sex and nothing going on depressed me, and then all of a sudden the story was over. I really did like Eli, straight forward and unapologetic about his sexuality and his needs. I didn't get why Peter would lie to his family about his sexuality, they seemed accepting. Also, Peter was such a token bad guy, it was a bit much.
    • 5/5
      One of the first blog posts on my website was a collection of random comments K.A.Mitchell made on her blog which as a new wannabe writer, I found really useful. Here's a snippet:

      K.A.MITCHELL my new fav author 06/06/2010

      "I guess since most of my male characters don't usually like to talk about their feelings, even to themselves, this is the way they express them, sometimes rough, sometimes tender, sometimes possessive. I guess what I write is porn with plot."

      "Even if the sex is hot and varied, if the emotions behind it aren't changing, it's repetitive."

      "To me an erotica is a story where much of the emotional growth and conflict is expressed either in the sex scenes or results from the sex scenes."

      "My favorite pairings to read and watch and write are of a control freak who is shut down and an equally stubborn you-will-notice-me character (*coughs* Aaron and Joey). But as much as I love that pairing, those personality types are absolutely nothing like me personally. Is that why I like them so much? Or is it because they're so perfectly matched in conflict that they make for a good story?"

      Thirty months have passed since then and guess what? K.A. is still writing not good but great stories. She's still tempting me to quit pretending to be an author and take up tatting instead because I know everything I write pales in comparison.

      I liked "Bad Company", but I love "Bad Boyfriend".

      In my review of the former, I put in a plea for Eli's story. K.A. coughed up a beauty. She captured perfectly the insecurities and strengths they each had that made them such a perfect fit when they meshed together.

      Now all we need is one for Jamie and Silver.... and possibly Terry. If they're male and gay, I'm sure K.A. will develop a great back story for the characters. Give them just enough conflict to keep the story ticking along nicely, and include a liberal sprinkling of well-written sex comprising just the right mix of graphic detail and emotional connection to make any writer green with envy.

      K.A. is still my fav author. So' scuse me while I go back to the beginning and read it again
    • 4/5
      Themes: Finding love after betrayal and Learning to trust again. Recommend.
    • 5/5
      I loved this installment of Bad in Baltimore. The story was just perfect and I just adored the characters. Great emotional storytelling, with a crappy bad guy to boot. I think Eli has to be one of my favorite characters, he is just magic. Brilliant writing and this is one book I'll be getting in paper back!
      Re read again March 2013
    • 4/5
      An extra star for the hotness!
    • 4/5
      KA Mitchell is back in fine form in this one. I didn't like Bad Company as much as her previous releases (mainly because of the premise) but this was very very good. Quinn Maloney has been in a (closeted) relationship with Peter for 10 years. Then Peter (aka, the bastard) tells him he's leaving him for a woman who he's knocked up while he's been cheating (the bastard). Problem is, Peter's family have become Quinn's family and letting go of Peter would mean letting go of everyone. So he doesn't. It sounds doormat-y but the way it's written, it comes across as very understandable. I did wonder how Peter (the bastard) and Quinn had managed to stay together for 10 years though - I think that's maybe because he was in the Navy for a lot of it? Anyway, fast forward about a year and Peter's son is being christened and Quinn doesn't want to attend alone. He meets Eli (Nate's friend from Bad Company) and he's perfect - his look screams gay and Quinn kind of wants to rub it in Peter (the bastard)'s face. But, Quinn finds in Eli a lot more than a hot date to a christening. I would have preferred a little more time for the relationship to grow - there was a touch of the insta-love about it which I found a bit jarring given Quinn's nature (and by that, I mean that given his history with Peter (the bastard) he doesn't seem prone to quick decisions). Also, some of the conversations seemed unfinished to me. I guess the author had extracted what she wanted to tell the reader but they were often interrupted rather than finished and mostly, those conversations were never revisited. I'm the kind of person who hates that in talk shows and conversations so it's something I notice. I would have liked to have known what became of Chrissy (Peter - the bastard-'s) wife - I felt a bit sorry for her actually. But then, maybe she shouldn't have married someone she barely knew just to be married to the baby daddy so you know, caveat emptor. And, after all, the book wasn't about her.However, I loved Eli and Quinn and I loved them together and I wanted more more more. I love KA Mitchell's style and the way she writes super hot sex and I love the way she writes the romance - "never let me leave" *sigh*.Finally, my Sony told me that the book was 175 pages long, but the last 15 pages were excerpts. You are warned.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book.

      My recent foray into male/male romance has opened my eyes to the possibilities, literally and figuratively. This book I found quite captivating and it opened up a topic that I have not read in any other books.

      Quinn is someone who has been with his partner, Peter, for 10 years. Now, Peter comes to him and says that he is not gay, and infact has impregnated a female and will be marrying her.

      Fast forward to the baby's christening. Quinn needs a date and finds Eli, who is in every way the opposite of the still closeted Peter.

      I loved their relationship and I found myself laughing out loud many times throughout the book. I loved their intensity.

      I look forward to trying some of the author's other books.


      Oh, and there is lots of hot sex!
    • 4/5
      Bad Boyfriend is Good! Loved it.

      I am becoming a huge fan of K.A. Mitchell. I like her books when I am in the mood for a good steamy romance between two great men. That's what I got with this one.

      Quinn is older, sexy, domineering (in a good way)with a soft side that made me wonder why anyone would not want to walk away from him. Peter the jerk ex-boyfriend was an idiot and didn't deserve to be with Quinn.

      Eli is fun, outrageous, overly confident at times but a loyal friend and protector. He can be tenacious which is what I really loved about him. His handling of Peter and Peter's family had me cheering and laughing the whole time.
    • 4/5
      Probably the best written sex of the year, but it ended weird and randomly.


      She made Nate hyper unlikable and Kellen only seemed capable of giving sympathetic looks, stomping on Nate's foot, playing footsies, winking, and kissing when needed. Its like she tried to fade any charm from them to make Eli and Quinn shine.

      Peter's situation and Quinn's situation with the family felt very unfinished, and that seemed much of the conflict with Eli holding back so why not tie it up better?

      Still a bathroom stall, an every day tie and belt, and a toppy man will never look the same. That alone and those scenes are worth all the stars I gave this.
    • 3/5
      The circumstances that lead to Eli and Quinn meeting each other are certainly unique. Quinn's boyfriend of ten years, Peter, revealed that he'd not only been cheating on Quinn but is off to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Quinn is expected to stay around and play the supportive best friend role, but can only take so much. So it seems ingenious to bring Eli--a younger, wilder seeming guy--as his date to the baby's baptism. He succeeds in making Peter jealous, but also opens a whole series of other doors when Eli puts on more of a show than expected and leaves everyone convinced the two of them are a real item.

      I felt like this was on par with the first book in the series, really. Obviously there's a bit of drama and hefty helpings of angst, though the characters certainly power through. I found myself horribly annoyed with Peter (of course), though there were several times I found myself frustrated with both Eli and Quinn, too. This is definitely one of those books that will leave you yelling 'NO! STOP! WHY?' to the characters as you turn the pages.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book so much more than Bad Company (which got 1.5 star from me). It is better written, the plot is actually believable and the characters are likable. I liked how we see Quinn's character grow through the book - from this bland, I'll-do-anything-to-avoid-confrontation man, to a man not so repressed. At first I really hated Quinn and didn't get half of his reactions, but as the story revolves, all of his reactions come to place. What I didn't like is how Peter was just too much of a bad guy. I can't believe that someone who came from a caring and loving family could have only one main characteristic - selfishness.What is more unbelievable is that they all (with the exception of Eli) didn't realize it until his wife left him. Or maybe not, since they'd all rather put a blindfold over their eyes than acknowledge anything out of their comfort zone. I can't get people like that so, yeah, I was totally with Eli when he was pissed off about them all. All in all, I can see how this book could have turned out better, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.