Loose Lips
A Gay Sea Odyssey
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Publisher Description
Finalist - 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
Dockyard mansex adventurer Olli Turner has stowed away on the biggest ship the world has ever known, forced to set sail incomplete.
Built up rivet by rivet through his formative years, RMS Queen Elizabeth watched over Olli's sexual awakening. Staying with her seems to promise passage to a new world of landed men.
Yet in March 1940 war is churning. That short coastal voyage to Southampton he was expecting turns into a daring dash across the Atlantic and plants instead seeds of a years-long life at sea.
Conspiring undercurrents sabotage his troopship to troopship bounce as need for a place, however perilous, in arms of to-war men proves a powerful piece in this war's chess match of primal evils.
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Brennan's erotic debut, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, is a salacious story of a young man swept into service at sea during WWII. In 1940, a 16-year-old Glaswegian stows away on the first voyage of the Queen Elizabeth. When the trip turns out to be a secret mission, he assumes the name Oliver Turner and seduces married officer Robert Bell into falsifying papers allowing him to stay. After another sailor attempts to blackmail Robert with photos of his and Oliver's escapades, Robert apparently takes his own life. A heartbroken Oliver then dedicates himself to providing meaningless sexual release for Allied troops traversing the oceans. Aboard another ship, he starts an ongoing relationship with American captain Harris, experiencing tenderness for the first time since Robert. Then Oliver learns that Robert's suicide was staged. He sets off to find Robert, but the route back is complicated by lingering feelings for Harris and the dangerous, ship-destroying schemes Oliver finds himself caught up in. The period details and connection to historic boat sinkings are intriguing, and Brennan's idiosyncratic prose is fascinatingly textured, if occasionally distracting. The sex scenes themselves are graphic and kinky but often oddly mechanical, and Oliver's young age will make many readers balk. There's an audience for this, but it's narrow. (Self-published)
