When I first read Maxym M. Martineau’s Kingdom of Exiles, book one of her Beast Charmers series, I was enthralled with the world she created, making that title my favourite read of 2019. She finished that series with two more titles, The Frozen Prince and The Shattered Crown. She also made an interesting pivot: while…
I didn’t have to look far to find a book to read for the “opposites attract” prompt this month. I’ve been meaning to read this one for a while, and as the two protagonists in Fearne Hill’s To Take a Quiet Breath (book three in her Rossingley series) are as opposite as opposite can be – in terms of…
Annabeth Albert returns to Safe Harbor for Make Me Stay, book two in her trilogy featuring three long-time friends set in a small Oregon town. This one is a mature, hurt/comfort romance between two wounded men who have spent so many years denying any vulnerability that they are now stuck, in their different ways, with…
Nicky James takes a short break from her fabulous Valor and Doyle series with this new standalone romantic suspense title, Everything I Didn’t Know. I have to confess to something of a fascination with cults and how they operate, so the premise of this novel – a young man whose eyes have been opened to…
H.L. Day’s Scoring Points is part of a multi-author series set in the world of Formula 1 racing – which isn’t a sport I’ve seen featured in a romance novel before. (It must have been done – I just haven’t read it!) The series includes books by popular m/m authors including Lisa Henry, Charlie Novak…
G.B. Gordon’s Bottom Line is the sequel to 2022’s By the Book and the second in the Follow the Money series, about an FBI agent working white collar crimes and the younger forensic accountant with whom he becomes romantically involved while investigating an elaborate money laundering scheme. The story was perhaps a bit formulaic, but it…
Detectives Everett Larkin and Ira Doyle are back in the third Memento Mori book, Broadway Butchery. Like its predecessors, it’s a compelling and thoroughly engrossing read; a wonderful combination of gorgeous slow-burn romance and clever, tightly-plotted mystery that begins with Larkin, the star detective of the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad, once again called to a…
Outrun the Rain is the first book in N.R. Walker’s new Storm Boys trilogy, a same-couple series in which the two leads are a geeky fulminologist (someone who studies lightning) and a free-spirited storm chaser based in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. It’s a quick, fun read, featuring likeable characters and a superbly rendered setting,…
Narrated by Gary Furlong We’re slowly seeing more characters in their forties appearing in romance novels, even though they’re still a fairly small minority. Romantic leads in their fifties, however, are still quite rare, and to find two of them in the same book – as the central couple – is even rarer. Jay Hogan…
With Marsh, Levi and their allies finally closing the net around the arms-dealing/people-trafficking/money-laundering organisation they’ve been working to bring down, King Hunt is a flurry of fast-talk and high-stakes action featuring a dizzying array of characters and a lot of moving parts. This final book in Layla Reyne’s Perfect Play series follows directly on from…
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