[boyxboy] [#42 in general fiction] Eliott is alive. He's navigated through foster families, group homes, and no home. Through it all, Nigel has been by his side. Now that high school is over and they've found a place - a real home - to live with their best friend from school, everything is looking up. Not for long. Sexuality, love, loss, and growing into your own shoes is a lot harder than it seems. - cover thanks to @roadtrips

Thinking you're the only one like you is the most suffocating and lonely feeling. Lonely. This was how Emeka felt until the Adafo family came for summer holidays in his tiny village. It was the first time in years the Adafo family have been in Nigeria since they relocated to the U.K, and like every other case of 'obodo oyibo' the village was filled with rumors, gist, and gossip about the family in the mansion behind the eight feet gates. By chance, Emeka becomes close friends with the family's only daughter, but it didn't take time at all for him to find himself in a difficult situation with her eldest brother.

Adam is a Neet. He never leaves his apartment unless he absolutely has to. He holes himself up, only giving attention to his comics and cartoons. However, things change when a noisy party animal moves in next door and becomes a pest. Adam is given no other choice but to confront his neighbor. A series of events pushes Adam outside his bubble and forces him to interact with others. And maybe, just maybe, he thought his neighbor, Assad, was a bit good looking. * * * * * TW/CW: The MC of this novel has social anxiety and depression, and although there are no thoughts relating to violence or self-harm, the MC is consistently in a state of mind /internal monologue that can be mentally tasking for people with similar conditions.

Book Two of the Growing Pains series. If you haven't read the first book and intend to, click away. There are major spoilers from the first chapter! Newly turned adult Will Simmons leaves his fragmented family life behind and moves to Dublin. With a sports scholarship to college, a position on the National Irish Volleyball team, a relationship with his former teacher Gabriel, and two firm friends to accompany him, Will is ready to get on with his life. But the perfect life he's been craving doesn't feel like he thought it would, and Will stubbornly buries his feelings of unease beneath obsessive exercise and even more obsessive calorie management. But his bottled feelings accumulate, pressurize--and he starts to crack.

Antinous is destined to die. Envied by the gods and despised by his rivals, the Greek youth from Bithynia is the most beautiful boy in the Roman Empire, summoned to the Eternal City where the emperor, Hadrian, makes him his lover. Just when Antinous thinks he has outrun destiny, he meets Leonides, a bold young soldier who conquers his heart. He desires the soldier but belongs to the emperor. If he gives in to temptation it may cost them their lives. His rivals are always talking and the gods always watching.

"Again, Mr. Park!" Mr. Jeon Jungkook shouts, as Jimin misses his footing yet again. Going away to France to practice ballet, wasn't exactly the dream come true Jimin had hoped it would be. Every night Mr. Jeon holds Jimin back, practicing and yelling at him. Jungkook is a mysterious man, who many of his students fall for. However, he continuously turns them down, explaining to them that ballet is not about happiness and love, but rather, pain and hard work. Jimin isn't keeping up with the rest of the students, and as a result, Mr. Jeon keeps the student after class. Jungkook begins to have a feelings for the young student, but in his heart, he knows that they can never be together... Though...Jimin is not so quick to keep his hands to himself.