It has been years ago for me that I started reading mm books, I talked about it in a post before.
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I started reading mm books because I could relate to them. I also learned a lot about being gay by reading them.
I read an MFM book and enjoyed it so got another one, not realizing it was MMF. As I was reading the story I realized I loved the storyline when it dealt with the MM aspect and got annoyed when the female was included. So I’m like..hmmm…let me try an MM only book. Loved it and never left
Someone I knew from social media told me about MM – sometimes in 2011 I think. Back then I mostly read yaoi and watch their ova. My friend worked at giant bookstore and told me her stores carried selected titles curated by her. What I remembered back then the different dynamics of MM from straight novel I read; more power balance between the characters. I started slow but the rest (as they say) were history.
At first I read MMF books and I wanted tot read a MM book and along came Try by Ella Frank. So I started to follow LGBTQ+ blogs to get LGBTQ+ book recommendations.
I won Goodtime Boys by Carol Lynne and fell in love with m/m romance books. M/M romance books is pretty much all I read now.
i found always by kindle alexander and i was hooked ever since
I read one by Josh Lanyon and was hooked
Bought one by accident and was so excited by something different that I bought tons more and have never looked back.
I read some gay-themed books in college, but the themes were often really downbeat. (Even the ones that were comedies usually involved losing at love.) I assumed all romances were annoying alpha/swooning damsel, and never read them. When I learned there was a romance genre featuring a variety of men with HEAs involved, how could I resist?
I had been searchig for something that was missing in my reading pleasure and it wasn’t until I stumbled across an MMF story (Travis by Nicole Edwards) that I found what I was looking for. Hot man on man action told in an amazig story…..all I wanted was for the female character to get out of their way!
From then I was hooked and Try by Ella Frank became my first “true” MM book and I’ve never looked back
I started with a M/M book in a otherwise M/F series. I like the dynamic and then added a series by an author participating in a giveaway in the M/F author’s facebook group. The rest is history and over the last 4 years I moved more and more towards M/M.
Tried to find gay stories from the time I was a young teenager, but it wasn’t until 2016 that I found the MM ebook world.
I had a meandering route…first gothic romance to paranormal romance to mmf and then mmm. The plots are so much richer due to the social issues they face along with the the tenderness they portray side by side to the passion. I especially love series where the characters gain even more depth.
I had been reading yaoi for years before coming across M/M fiction.
I was browsing Amazon and noticed they had categories so I started looking – bought The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott and never went back. Total accident but the best one I ever had.
A friend I made at goodreads read one book she really loved, she recommended it to me… the rest is history!
I started reading novels when I was about 9 years old, it started with the usual children’s books like Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc. Then I branched out to Mills and Boons, Harlequin Romance (my mom was an avid romance reader as well), then this continued for several years and then I got tired of reading the same storyline over and over again, especially with tropes of a damsel in distress needing a rescue. I wanted to read something else. I am enamored with mysteries now, the likes of Dan Brown and Sandra Brown. I discovered MM when I started reading fanfiction after falling in love with LGBTQ+ characters in a series. I haven’t come up for air since. I love it more and more each day. It has a different level of emotions, more passion, more of everything. I think I will be in this genre for decades to come.
Originally it was just because a MM book was part of an otherwise MF series. But over time I think typical MF books got to a point where I just couldn’t stand the female heroine, too much damsel in distress and just too annoying. MM is just more too my liking, less need to impress and eyelash fluttering.
I was reading M/F for years and the heroines continued to be more helpless and stupid. Amazon recommended a JL Langley book. I read the blurb. A Space Captain and a Prince. Two guys. Huh? Had to try it and there was no going back.
I was reading het smut manga, made the jump to yaoi manga when the smutty manga started tiring me and then lo and behold I stumble onto MM books and I never looked back!!!
I was reading an MF series and one of them was MMF which sparked my curiosity for MM. Never looked back!
I read MMF and that lead to MM and I fell in love with the genre.