#Evander Mills

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Evander (Andy) Mills- Lavender House by Lev Ac Rosen

Catherine St. Day- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Sideways Pike- The Spacegracers by HA Clarke

Malini- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

#Evander Mills #Andy Mills #Lavender House #The bell in the fog #Lev Ac Rosen #Catherine St. Day #The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics #feminine pursuits series #Olivia Waite #Sideways Pike #spacegracers #scratch daughters #The Spacegracers #HA Clarke #Malini #The Jasmine Throne #The Oleander Sword #the burning kingdoms #tbk #malini tbk #Tasha Suri #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Historical Mystery Series

Harlem Renaissance Mysteries by Nekesa Afia (1920s) The Nightingale Mysteries by Katharine Schellman (1920s) The Simon Sampson Mysteries by David C. Dawson (1930s) Pentecost and Parker by Stephen Spotswood (1940s) Evander Mills by Lev A.C. Rosen (1950s)

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#Andy Mills #David C. Dawson #Evander Mills #Harlem Renaissance #Historical Mystery #Katharine Schellman #Lev A.C. Rosen #Nekesa Afia #Nightingale Mysteries #Pentecost and Parker #Stephen Spotswood

[eruwaedhiel-in-an-impardis]

Evander Mills is the soggiest sadboi I have ever seen, I wanna put him in a cardboard box and shake him, but he would just sob so hard he'd soak the bottom of the cardboard box and it would tear off, sliding his little sorrowful lump out onto the floor where he would just lie there sniffling in a puddle of his own tears

He's the silent mysterious figure sitting in the shadowy corner of the (gay) bar bc if someone talked to him he'd just burst into tears and apologize for breathing, top notch character design, I need twenty more in this series

#evander mills #lavender house #bell in the fog #lev ac rosen

[pridepages]

Gene: You could have gone to prison. Even a night in lockup, and you'd be dead. We both know it. You should have let them hit me. Andy: I...didn't know how.

#the bell in the fog #evander mills #lev ac rosen #lgbt reads #queer lit #mlm #gay

[partofacrowd]

The Evander Mills brainrot got me so bad im looking everywhere for content 😭😭😭 He’s just so pathetic at times

#evander mills #lavender house

[phantasticreads]

AHHHHHH! This series is definitely going on my auto-buy list!

Review coming soon!

#queer detective #detective fiction #historical fiction #evander mills #Andy mills series

[geeklyinc]

Lavender House Review: LGBTQIA(gatha Christie)

Lavender House Review: LGBTQIA(gatha Christie)

Content warning: Lavender House, and therefore this review, discusses characters experiencing suicidal ideation Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen brings the atmosphere and mystery of a classic noir novel into the lives of queer people in the 1950s. Set in San Francisco, the novel follows Evander Mills, who has recently been kicked off the police …

#Evander Mills #Lavender House #Lev AC Rosen #Queer Fantasy

[skepwith]

Queer mid-century San Francisco is the setting for this noir mystery series featuring detective Evander "Andy" Mills. Author Rosen nails it on multiple levels: the noir-style narrative voice, the satisfying mystery plots, and the historical details of being queer in SF in 1952. But it's the evolution of the main character that gives these books an emotional depth beyond standard whodunnits.

Lavender House opens with Andy having just been kicked out of the police force after being caught in a raid on a gay bar. Closeted for years, he thinks his life is over. Then he's hired by a woman to look into the murder of her wife—discreetly.

Along with all the pleasures of a good mystery, we get the pleasure of watching Andy become able to reimagine his life, this time as part of a community he'd previously kept at arm's length. In The Bell in the Fog this includes atonement for having been a cop; the police in these books are absolute bastards to queers (as they were in reality). Rosen has clearly done his historical research, and sometimes it's pretty damn grim, but the books are never hopeless. They show all kinds of queer people grabbing their joy with both hands and making the most of it, creating their own spaces and families in a hostile world. Andy's growth demonstrates that finding happiness is possible, with a little self-acceptance and a lot of solidarity.

Recommended for fans of noir mystery and queer history.

#book recommendation #lavender house #the bell in the fog #lev ac rosen #queer history #noir #1950s San Francisco

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Read in January 2024

*facepalm* I've just realised I actually read two really good books this month despite what I've said in my other wrap-up posts. Butch is a Noun and Stone Butch Blues (a reread) were absolutely wonderful - I forgot about them because I haven't got physical copies 😂

the rest of my reads were a bit underwhelming but at least I crossed off lots of stuff from my TBR 😊

Series read:

Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - 4/5

Evander Mills series by Lev AC Rosen

Lavender House - 4/5

The Bell and the Fog - 4/5

Backlog books:

I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick - DNF

Other reads:

Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby & AJ Sass - 3/5 (audio)

Butch is a Noun by S Bear Bergman - 4/5

Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis - 4/5

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg - 5/5 (reread)

Very Bad People by Kit Frick - 4/5 (audio)

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand - 2/5 (audio)

Cackle by Rachel Harrison - 3/5 (audio)

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly - 4/5

The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein - 4/5 (audio)

The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman - 4/5

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang - 4/5

Spinning by Tillie Walden - 4/5

#january wrap up #read in january #read last month #2024 #trcc original

[doberbutts]

I’m not saying that I did absolutely nothing with Evander to get his confidence up and fix the resource guarding but I am gunna say that I’m a little offended Sushi fixed it the rest of the way within a week meanwhile he’s been here for like two months of me slowly picking at it...

Who knew the secret to having Evander not resource guard anymore was simply to have him exist with high value treats on the ground and my dogs milling around him and completely ignoring his attempts to pick a fight with them over a bone they’ve already decided is too boring to argue about.

#evander #foster dog chronicles

[kappabooks]

The Bell in the Fog | Book Review

Check out my review of the upcoming historical mystery, THE BELL IN THE FOG

I received a physical ARC from BookishFirst. All opinions are my own. The Bell in the Fog , a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks—once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them? San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective—but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out…

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#2023 releases #anticipated 2023 releases #anticipated releases #book blogger #book review #historical fiction #lgbtq books #mystery books #mystery thriller books #queer books

[jonathanrook]

everyone go read lev ac rosen's lavender house/evander mills detective series RIGHT NOW i'm not asking

#there's only two so far the second ''the bell in the fog'' came out last month #and i just finished it i'm screaming #they're so so so good #if you love mysteries and 1950s period pieces and gay people please read them #i actually hate period pieces usually but they're so good!!! #tbitf introduces probs my new favorite character of the series bc i love it when gender fluid people #cw for period typical homophobia #rachel rants

[pridepages]

Doing Time: The Bell in the Fog

I just finished The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen. I have thoughts...

Here there be spoilers!

Evander Mills is doing time.

Not in jail, but in a more insidious prison yet...

In memory.

When we left him at the end of Lavender House, gay ex-cop and newly-minted private eye Evander "Andy" Mills was ready to meet his new life. He'd been betraying his community for years, finding ways to justify the double standard in his head. "On the police force, it seemed easier--catch bad guys, put them away. But of course, it wasn't actually easier, it just felt that way because of the rules they lived by. Rules I violated every time I went to the club or bar and met a man in a bathroom stall. Rules that turned on me when they found me. And rules I followed, and never protected other gay people from." Now, he has newly awakened senses of shame and purpose. He wants to atone.

They say if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. But it begs the question...

How long?

In Bell, Andy's second case is one that's deeply tied to his past. It forces him to tread and retread all the wrongs he's done to himself and his community. Trapped in the pain of reliving the past, Andy keeps stalling, unable to move forward.

This is the problem with the idea of atonement. It keeps us stuck in the past, endlessly picking at the scabs of our shame until they bleed. At a certain point, we have to decide we've finally done enough...

And let it go.

Andy's new love, Gene, has his own painful past. "But now I can look at it like it's...through glass, y'know. I can remember the good stuff, and smile, and the bad stuff comes with it, but it's all under glass, a diorama. It can't do anything to me now. I pick what happens next."

All of us have done wrong in our lives. Many (most?) of us have yearned to make it right.

We can't.

It's like...well, a bell. You can't unring it.

We can't take back that moment of pain to someone else.

Stepping up to protect his people now doesn't fix the times that Andy looked the other way when raids happened. Doesn't make up for the people he watched get beaten while he stood silently by.

The value of mending our ways isn't in the past...

It's in the future.

"I built myself," says Gene. "I decided who I wanted to be in my new life. I still have to do that, but...I think I'm doing alright."

We can't make up for the evil we've done.

But once we know it, we can make a different choice.

Set ourselves free of the prison of the past. Decide what we will do in the future--

And who we will be.

#the bell in the fog #evander mills #lev ac rosen #mlm #gay #lgbtqia #lgbt reads #queer lit

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (19-25 Feb 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Or Be Nice (charlottemadison) - 151K, Good Omens human AU, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers/boyfrenemies; love the characterizations and the dialogue/banter is A+++

🥰👂‍ The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) (J.R.R. Tolkien, author; Andy Serkis, narrator)

🥰👂‍ Lavender House (Lev AC Rosen, author; Vikas Adam, narrator) - '50s set historical mystery with noir vibes but hella queer. I quite enjoyed this; I liked the characters and the melodramatic noir-ness, and would happily read another of Evander Mills' adventures if any are forthcoming.

😊 Cinderfella (GoldenTruth813) - 43K, Sheith AU, Keith has a crush on YT'er Shiro, then there's a chance meeting, attraction, angst and finally getting together

💖💖 +195K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Ghost of You (min_T) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 15K - solidly good ghost/monsterfucking fic

(After)life (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 4K - reread; my fave ghostfucking fic!

thats what i want series 1-3 (BelmotteTower) - Ted Lasso: Roy/Keeley/Jamie, 44K - fantastic TLot3 series

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Interview with Sarah Gailey (discussing American Hippo) [Romancing The Gothic]

Queering Heyer (My Poor Devil Panel with Rose Lerner, Olivia Waite, Cat Sebastian & KJ Charles) [Romancing The Gothic]

Queering Jane Eyre: Author Visit with Rose Lerner [Romancing The Gothic]

Hot Ones - Anna Kendrick

Hot Ones - Bryan Cranston

Hot Ones - Lenny Kravitz

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Vibe Check - Welcome to the Deep End

⭐ ICYMI Plus - Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom

Ologies with Alie Ward - Environmental Toxicology (POISONS + TRAIN DERAILMENT) with Kimberly K. Garrett

Switched on Pop - Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"

99% Invisible #526 - Orange Alternative

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Gankutsu Hotel

Shedunnit - The Death Of The Country House

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Jadeite Cabbage

Lost Women of Science - Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores

⭐ Into It - The Wave Returns to the Ocean (Plus: What Are Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos Into?)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Thomas Merton's Hermitage

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Golden

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Newtown Creek Nature Walk

You Must Remember This - 1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)

Endless Thread - Aftershocks Online

Hit Parade Plus - The Bridge: Losing Hootie’s Religion

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Rock Ballads

Tapestry: '70s Queens

Yacht Rock Classics

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #lotr #the two towers #lavender house #fanfic ftw #here for all the monsterfucking #romancing the gothic #hot ones remains one of my fave interview shows #vibe check podcast #seriously vibe check will transform your wednesday mornings! #hit parade podcast #atlas obscura podcast #99% invisible podcast #switched on pop podcast #ologies podcast #shedunnit podcast #into it podcast #20k hz podcast #icymi podcast #lost women of science podcast #you must remember this podcast #endless thread podcast #'80s ballads #'70s queens #yacht rock

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks—once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them?

San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective—but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help.

When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job seems to be a simple case of blackmail, and Andy’s debts are piling up. He agrees to investigate, despite everything it stirs up.

The case will take him back to the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, and then out into the gay bars of the city, where the past rises up to meet him, like the swell of the ocean under a warship. Missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos that could destroy lives are a whirlpool around him, and Andy better make sense of it all before someone pulls him under for good.

Review:

A new case for the queer private investigator, except his client is his ex and he'll be facing a whole slew of messy history, dangers, and feelings, especially since he's falling for the cute bartender too. Its 1952 in San Francisco and ex-cop turned private investigator Evander "Andy" Mills is on the case. Ever since opening up his own investigation office, he's still trying to fit in, no one trust him because he's an ex cop despite him being gay, but he's trying. When an old flame shows up, his ex from the navy, wanting to hire Andy to help him get back some illicit photos that could destroy his career, Andy is on the case. Yet this case has a lot of it's own troubles and dangers as Andy gets pulled in further and further into his old history with his ex and the fact that someone is killing for the blackmail photos that happen to be more than just his ex's. Can Andy crack the case before it's too late and finally protect the home and people he's begun to think of as his own family, and maybe also finally ask out the cute bartender Gene that he's been crushing on, that is, if he can work out his complicated feelings for his ex. This was such a fun historical murder mystery, it's a great continuation of the first book, and I absolutely can't wait to see if there is going to be a third book (I would love for this to be a continuing series), it would be so cool to see all the characters again and see them grow, especially getting to see Andy grow more into himself and his journey as a P.I!

*Thanks Netgalley and Tor Publishing Group, Forge Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #lgbtq books #the bell in the fog

[myah--reads]

All I Have Pt.II by Ames Mills I recommend! Very very good. Similar to the first duet in the series so a bit predictable but Ames is such a great writer that I didn't mind. I'm absolutely obsessed with this series.

Growing up as an outsider is never easy. I was the product of an affair, and when my father stepped up to raise me, my mother handed me over, no questions asked. I had my brother Luca and my niece Alessa; that’s all I needed. When Luca passed away, it thrust Alessa and me into leading the Italian Mafia. I stepped up until she was ready and gladly handed the mantle back to her capable hands after I helped her forge an alliance with the Perez brothers. Now I had one goal in life; win back Evander Perez. Then Evie walked into our lives. Ghosts from our pasts keep rising to haunt us, trying to rip away the very thing I would fight to the death to save. Now Evander and I, his brother Mateo, my bodyguard Gray, and an enemy none of us saw coming have vowed to protect her. No matter the cost.

**All I Have Part One is part of a duet and will end on a cliffhanger. It’s a reverse harem/polyamorous romance intended for mature readers only. The FMC doesn’t choose between love interests and there is male/male relationships/content. It’s set in a fictional city in California, Abbs Valley, and will be the first of this world with more to come. Be sure to check the content/trigger warnings in the front of the book before proceeding.

#2023 #book review #bookworm #booklover #bookish #books #booklr #books and reading #mafia #mafia romance #reverse harem #dark romance