Which is how he winds up working nights at Rear Entrance Video, shilling sketchy porn and blowup dolls as a favor to his roommate. This gamer geek has a lacy little secret.Īrt student and MMORPG addict Robert Ng has always been a loner, but he’s recently made it his goal to make more (IRL) friends.

All this leaves me excited for her next in the series, Straight Shooter.PRE-RELEASE REVIEW: “Wallflower (Rear Entrance Video #2)” by Heidi Belleau ABOUT: Apple Polisher also hinted that one of the reoccurring character in the series, Max may be bi, so perhaps he will get his own book some day. However as soon as I finished Wallflower, I instantly devoured the previous installment Apple Polisher and found that to be another well-developed story (though Wallflower was better). While Wallflower is the second in Belleau’s Rear Entrance Video series, you don’t need to read the first book, to instantly understand the characters. Said customer gets his comeuppance at the end however and the confrontation makes Rob/Bobby stronger. Bobby is harassed and then assaulted by a particularly transmisogynistic customer at the video store. Some readers may be sensitive to the fact that sexual violence are a part of this story. The final sex scene where Dylan conscientiously and enthusiastically fucks Bobby was one of the hottest things I’ve ever read. Belleau never uses the term genderqueer but Rob does eventually identify as “flamboyant, femme, and part-time girl”. At several points I was shouting at Rob/Bobby to just “tell him the truth!!” but it also kept me frantically turning pages. Through it all Dylan shines as a great boyfriend, though Rob’s secretiveness about Bobby leads to some bumps along the way. Rob’s gender identity is given lots of careful time to unfold, and we see him go through phases of confusion, kneejerk denial, and awkward acceptance until he is finally able to fully integrate his gender fully in the final 20 pages. The erotica in this hits hard and heavy, but it is more than just a string of random fucks. And by ‘get to know’ I mean Dylan gives Rob a blowjob in an ally behind an art museum.

The two meet while Rob is working at a seedy porn store but really get to know each other when they find themselves in the same class at art school. When we first met Dylan, he’s wearing an oversized hoodie that says ERASE RACISM on the front. When we first meet Rob, he is roleplaying as a girl named Bobby in the MMORG Kingdom of Elves. Genderqueer erotica? With Asian and Inuit leads? Did I mention genderqueer erotica? I was ungodly excited for this one and Heidi Belleau did not disappoint.

Wallflower by Heidi Belleau