Okay, first let’s have a talk: Anyone who calls this series erotica is fooling themselves, or trying to fool someone else. This is some straight up fantasy adventure war spy tactics shit right here. That just happens to involve a m/m romance. So is that the erotica part because I’m confused. Is featuring a m/m romance taboo, so that’s why it’s “erotica”? The sole purpose of erotica is to titillate. It does nothing else. This is not that. At all. The ratio of sex to […]
A Comforting Sequel to an Excellent Book
Please consider this is less of a review and more of an advertisement. So, a kind of quirky feature of the romance genre is that typically each set of protagonists only gets one book. (There is an exception known as the ‘slow burn’ where it takes several books for the leads to finally get together, but even then, they aren’t actively in a relationship during all those books). More likely, if you are reading a series, you can hold out the hope that you get […]
A Grown-Up M/M Romance
I took too long to write this review (I finished this book several weeks ago now), so it won’t be a thorough as I would like. But, it was just too enjoyable not to share. This book told my favorite kind of story. A story of grown ups learning to love and live with each other, and how they support each other through life’s problems. Laurie Parker was a world class ballet dancer until he decided to try ballroom dancing in competition with another man. […]
Shaken and Stirred
Patty: Remember when we read that witch-hunter/slayer/chakra book and we bitched about how it was basically a mish-mash of every PNR trope ever troped? You would think this would be like that but no. I mean, there is m/m romance, GFY, alcoholism, a social class divide, SEC regulations, paranoia, kidnapping, family dysfunction and yet somehow, it all worked. It should be all: But it ends up being being all: Katie: Ruben is really struggling – with life, his place in the world, what he wants […]