Also I was able to figure out who the killer was in the beginning. A real sheriff would be on a missing person till it was finished especially when it became two missing people. There is the town sheriff who seems to just let the mystery slide by.

Basically why? it felt like a throw away plot to just have something aside from a love story. If I was Sylis I would have told Ev to keep running he was not ready for a relationship. The way he would flip-flop between wanting a relationship with (Sy) Sylis and then running away.

Second I found the main character (Ev) Everett to be very wishy in his decisions. Especially when the characters were supposed to be 30's and the second narrator made them sound like they were 50's. First I absolutely did not like two separate narrators it was very confusing. I wanted to like this book but I really did not. I won't be buying the other books in this series. Which is a shame, because Iggy Toma and especially Alexander Cendese were doing a great job narrating as usual, and May Archer's prose was relatively good. I made it to the part where a bunch of characters were arguing with each other about what to call their child's non-binary uncle/aunt and peaced out. I came out twenty years ago but if someone I just met said to me 'I bet this town has a problem with queer people who vote liberal' I would roll my eyes and immediately find an excuse to be anywhere else, and not only because I hate the word 'queer.' Murders and disappearances are happening and all the police officer main character can seem to think of is how great it is to be gay in O'Leary. These guys are way gayer than I am, and I slept with a dude last night. Instead of everyone being basically a woman trapped in a straight guy's body, a good portion of the characters are Gay with a capital G and those who aren't sure talk about it a lot. This book has the opposite problem, however. The books end up being a rumination on how women want their M/M romances to be and less about how a M/M romance actually works, sort of how lesbian pornography is mostly marketed toward straight men. For example, the GFY stories which are borderline offensive or the trope of the bisexual who 'thought he was straight' until he realized he was in love with his best friend's cute brother, which, I'm sorry to say, rarely happens. The issue that I have as a gay man reading M/M fiction mostly written by straight women is that although a lot of stories are lovely, others are full of tropes that ring false.

The Fall by May Archer