Another excellent installment in the Evander Mills series.
I absolutely adore the characters in this series! Each book makes me love Andy and his ever growing family even more.
As is usual with these books, the twists are exciting but not wholly unexpected. Somehow Rosen manages to keep these somewhat low stress and joyful while sending the cast through the ringer of persistent homophobia. The case in this book was quite enjoyable - Who doesn’t love a bookshop/publishing/mobster mystery?!
I cannot wait to see what will happen next in this series

Thanks to Forge/Tor and NetGalley for the ARC!
4.25/5

I was so excited to see the eARC for this on NetGalley on Monday. Rough Pages was an excellent mystery with solid twists that don't come out of no where but that I didn't find too predictable. I really enjoy this series, the historical details, the honest way the characters come across, and the unflinching messiness of queer life, particularly post WWII America. It deals bluntly, graphically with homophobia just like the other two books in the series, but it also shows queer joy and queer community in the face of violent homophobia.

It's wonderful to watch Andy come into his own as a gay man, to see his support network, and the networks the other characters build for one another. It's also refreshing to read a mystery that isn't copaganda, and in fact show the police to be a corrupt and messy organization of men.

I really look forward to seeing where this series goes.