Title: Mud & Lace
Author: Jay Northcote
Series : Rainbow Place #4
Publisher: Jaybird Press (self published)
Length: 60,000 words approx
Genre: contemporary m/m romance, bisexual, gender fluidity
Cover Artist: Garrett Leigh
Release Date: Thursday 25th April 2019
Rating : 4/5 Stars
Rating : 4/5 Stars
When Wicksy falls for drag queen Charlie, they discover that both sexuality and gender can be fluid.
Simon Wicks—Wicksy to his rugby teammates—has only ever been interested in women. But when he sets eyes on Lady Gogo, a drag queen who performs at Rainbow Place, he can’t stop thinking about her. He knows there’s a guy behind the fishnets and make-up, but he’s ready to explore his fantasies, and Lady Gogo is game for making them come true.
Charlie adores performing in drag. It allows him to indulge in his love of cross-dressing while earning some extra cash. Fooling around with a mostly straight guy in secret seems like a fun diversion, and gives him the chance to explore his feminine side. He feels safe wearing the mask of his confident alter ego, because the real Charlie is hidden from view.
When Wicksy sees more of the guy behind the make-up and glitter, his attraction to Charlie persists, and he realises he’s bisexual. In turn, Charlie begins to understand and accept his gender fluidity. As their mutual journey of self-discovery brings them closer, the secrecy becomes increasingly hard to deal with. If they’re going to have a future together, they both need to find the courage to show people who they really are.
Although this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone and has a satisfying happy ending.
I’ve been waiting and totally curious about Lady Gogo and Wicksy story and I have huge feeling that I will completely enjoying this story.
We all know that Wicksy couldn’t take his eyes of from Lady Gogo charming performance at Rainbow Place, even when he clearly know that there’s a man behind all the make up but he can’t stop the curiosity that grew in him. When he brave himself to flirt with her and got a good response from her, they soon fall into an ‘agreement'.
At first both Charlie and Wicksy only playing' to satisfied their own wicked/kinky fantasy. But then Wicksy realize that he started to falling for the man behind Lady Gogo's femme looks...
But both Charlie and Simon need to find what they really want and dealing with what they feel then facing all the consequences, obstacles and dilemmas that following their act before finally found their HEA.
The way the author picturing the dilemmas, self conflicts and Charlie’s gender fluidity are very understandable and easy to follow without sounds too cheesy. I love how both Charlie and Simon learned to accept what actually happen to them even at some part Simon selfish act had disappointed and hurt Charlie quite bad, but again I completely understand why he did all that, because everything need a process and Simon/Wicksy must clear his head if he didn’t want to lose Charlie forever...
Overall, I think the story is way much better that the last book before this and I really enjoying reading Lady Gogo and Wicksy story.
Mud & Lace definitely become my another fave book from this series!
Simon Wicks—Wicksy to his rugby teammates—has only ever been interested in women. But when he sets eyes on Lady Gogo, a drag queen who performs at Rainbow Place, he can’t stop thinking about her. He knows there’s a guy behind the fishnets and make-up, but he’s ready to explore his fantasies, and Lady Gogo is game for making them come true.
Charlie adores performing in drag. It allows him to indulge in his love of cross-dressing while earning some extra cash. Fooling around with a mostly straight guy in secret seems like a fun diversion, and gives him the chance to explore his feminine side. He feels safe wearing the mask of his confident alter ego, because the real Charlie is hidden from view.
When Wicksy sees more of the guy behind the make-up and glitter, his attraction to Charlie persists, and he realises he’s bisexual. In turn, Charlie begins to understand and accept his gender fluidity. As their mutual journey of self-discovery brings them closer, the secrecy becomes increasingly hard to deal with. If they’re going to have a future together, they both need to find the courage to show people who they really are.
Although this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone and has a satisfying happy ending.
I’ve been waiting and totally curious about Lady Gogo and Wicksy story and I have huge feeling that I will completely enjoying this story.
We all know that Wicksy couldn’t take his eyes of from Lady Gogo charming performance at Rainbow Place, even when he clearly know that there’s a man behind all the make up but he can’t stop the curiosity that grew in him. When he brave himself to flirt with her and got a good response from her, they soon fall into an ‘agreement'.
At first both Charlie and Wicksy only playing' to satisfied their own wicked/kinky fantasy. But then Wicksy realize that he started to falling for the man behind Lady Gogo's femme looks...
Simon clearly didn’t want people to know he was hooking up with a guy, and Charlie didn’t want his friends to know he was fucking a straight guy— and God forbid they found out he was dressing as a woman to do it.
But both Charlie and Simon need to find what they really want and dealing with what they feel then facing all the consequences, obstacles and dilemmas that following their act before finally found their HEA.
The way the author picturing the dilemmas, self conflicts and Charlie’s gender fluidity are very understandable and easy to follow without sounds too cheesy. I love how both Charlie and Simon learned to accept what actually happen to them even at some part Simon selfish act had disappointed and hurt Charlie quite bad, but again I completely understand why he did all that, because everything need a process and Simon/Wicksy must clear his head if he didn’t want to lose Charlie forever...
Overall, I think the story is way much better that the last book before this and I really enjoying reading Lady Gogo and Wicksy story.
Mud & Lace definitely become my another fave book from this series!
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