To Catch A Firefly
AerisI’m full of feels. Just looking at that cover gives me feels. If someone talks to me about this book, a part of me will turn into a puddle of goo.
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You & Me
Tal Bauer is a new read to me, but I’ve seen his name and this book, You & Me, a lot around KU and MM reader groups. Given the shower of positive responses, I decided to pick this up. Based on the excerpt, I thought I was in for a light and cozy read. Well, it wasn’t exactly light, but it was cozy and warm and full of love. So much love.
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The Player
When I found out from a newsletter about the ongoing (at the time) Your Book Boyfriend’s Boyfriend giveaway on Prolific works, I instantly skimmed through the list and found Lily Morton’s book. This may be a novella, but the amount of time I’ve spent reading and re-reading this was comparable to that of a full-length novel. I couldn’t help it, though, I just kept on swooning over and over.
Blurb from the book:
Read MoreFrankie Bishop had only been married for a few months when he became a widower, leaving him with a mountain of debts, a business on the edge of ruin, and a parrot called Hank Marvin.
Three years later, the business is finally thriving, and Frankie finds himself ready to look for love again. It comes as a complete surprise to discover that the’s developed feelings for Con – his late husband’s best friend and now Frankie’s business partner.
Why did he overlook the gorgeous man who’s been by his side through everything? Even more importantly, how can he tell Con about his feelings when Con seems to have suddenly found love with another man?
Fake Friends
Fake Friends (Never Just Friends #2) by Saxon James
From Goodreads:
ROWAN
Five years ago, I ruined the best thing I had in my life and ran.
Now, I’m finally back to make things right.
I need Circus’s forgiveness, and then maybe I can finally move on.
I’ll leave Sunbury for good this time and never look back. Maybe then I can finally live life as an out gay man—without my family ever finding out.
But earning his forgiveness isn’t as simple as I hoped it would be.
He’s going to make me fight for it.
And I don’t blame him at all.
CIRCUS
I never wanted or expected to see Rowan Harvey again.
When he shows up in Sunbury, begging for forgiveness, I’m tempted to give it to him just so he’ll disappear.
Instead, we make a deal.
I need an extra model for a swimwear shoot, and none of my friends are available or fit the brief.
I’ll forgive him, if he helps me. Then he has to leave. For good.
Because his request for anonymity during the shoot proves he’s still living in his dark closet.
I’m not going to make the same mistakes I did when I was a teenager.
I won’t let myself fall for him again.
Because after how things ended between us, he doesn’t deserve a second chance.
What if the person who broke your heart came back, asking for your forgiveness? What if, after all these years, nothing had changed? Not their baggage and, most definitely, not your feelings?
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Liam Davis & The Raven (Love Inscribed #1) by Anyta Sunday
From Goodreads:
Love and romance? I don’t know how I feel about that.
But I’m about to find out.
Jock. Big-boned. Broad shoulders. Tall. Runs fingers through hair as though he’s attractive and knows it. Walks into party like he has all the time in the world, slow but oddly graceful. Laugh lines around the mouth, a deep crack in his skin where a dimple might be.
That’s how I described him in the notes for my latest party-page column.
He fascinates me, but I’m not sure why. Or what to do about it. My belly is a fluttery, twisty mess.
Best to focus on my mission to find The Raven—the campus vigilante—and warn him about the hate mail the student paper’s been getting for him.
Except . . .
Quinn looks at me and his eyes darken. He wants something. But what is it?
Why do I want so badly to give it to him?
Liam Davis and The Raven is the first book of the Love Inscribed series by Anyta Sunday.
I picked this up after finishing Marc Jillson and The Gazebo. In retrospect, I should have read this first but got too invested with Marc and Hunter’s story, instead.
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Marc Jillson & The Gazebo
Marc Jillson & The Gazebo (Love Inscribed #2) by Anyta Sunday
From Goodreads:
Read MoreWant true, heart-throbbing romance? Put down the Cheetos, and stop being a jackass.
The question is, can I do it?
I’ve been an epic dick to my friends, my uncle. Him.
Travis Hunter. Photographer, econ-student, paraplegic. Can I redeem myself? Apologize? Make a fresh start?
Hunter seems to think so. Even roped me into saving his favorite gazebo from the bulldozers.
The confidence of this man amazes me. He’s no bullshit where I’m all bullshit. I throw up walls where he knocks them down.
He’s beautiful, too. Strong arms inked with hummingbirds, a wide teasing mouth, and blue eyes that read me like an open book.
He looks at me, and I look away.
These shivery feelings I have for Hunter? They can’t happen. I don’t deserve him.
Where did I put those Cheetos?
Cinders
Cinders (Fairest of Them All #1) by Harper Cole, Trisha Linde, and Colbie Dunbar
Synopsis (from Goodreads)
One night. One lie. One chance at love.
Read MoreTiago is just your regular joe omega. He’s still living at his stepfather’s home, buried under mounds of student debt, and he finds himself without a shovel to dig his way out. He’s beyond exhausted working his minimum-wage job under the pretense that he’ll work his way up the corporate ladder, except—the company belongs to his stepfather. Somehow this means Tiago is the company gofer. When nobody else wants to travel to the middle of nowhere for a business deal, Tiago gets saddled with it. He should hate it… he should dread it… but instead, it might just be his first taste of freedom. He hopes it won’t be the last.
A wolf named Hemingway? Sounds like the punchline of a joke, which is exactly what Hem feels like some days. He’s too alpha to be submissive, too young to be taken seriously, and all of the elders keep pushing him to mate, hoping it’ll help calm his restless spirit. But no matter how much they push, Hem can’t bring himself to settle down. He can’t help but feel like… there’s someone special out there, just waiting to be found. But after one blisteringly hot encounter with the omega of his dreams, he has to face the cold reality that he never thought to consider—what if his mate doesn’t want to be found?
In the first book of the new series, Fairest of Them All, Harper B. Cole, Colbie Dunbar, and Trisha Linde bring you fairy tales with a modern, mpreg, shifter twist. Cinders features a human who has no idea the shifter world exists and whose stepfather and stepbrothers treat him as an afterthought, both at home and in the office, a rugged wolf shifter who is a softie inside, sizzling heat when the pair meet, a full moon, ancient legends that have more truth to them than expected, a cute baby, and an eventual happy ever after. If you adore smexy alphas who are at home in the forest and ready to give up everything for love, and omegas who finally find their place in the world, get your copy of Cinders today.
A Midnight Clear
Title: A Midnight Clear by Kaje Harper
Published on: January 1, 2021
Summary (from Goodreads):
Read MoreCan a painful goodbye become a second chance?
Adric’s pretty sure his hopeless crush on his roommate Royce has an end date. They’ll finish their EMT training course before the holidays and take the exam. When they pass—fingers crossed— he has plans for job hunting, but even when he teases or nags, Royce refuses to discuss anything beyond that looming test date. That has to be a red flag.
Adric tries to be resigned to a bromance goodbye at Christmas. But when he and Royce end up in bed together, that changes everything. Doesn’t it?
A Fashionable Indulgence
Title: A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen Book 1) by K.J. Charles
Published on: August 11, 2015
Summary (from Goodreads):
In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant mentor fight for love in a world of wealth, power, and manipulation.
When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a Radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the most beautiful, chic man he’s ever met: the dandy tasked with instructing him in the manners and style of the ton. Harry’s new station demands conformity—and yet the one thing he desires is a taste of the wrong pair of lips.
After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Waterloo, Julius Norreys sought refuge behind the luxurious facade of the upper crust. Now he concerns himself exclusively with the cut of his coat and the quality of his boots. And yet his protégé is so unblemished by cynicism that he inspires the first flare of genuine desire Julius has felt in years. He cannot protect Harry from the worst excesses of society. But together they can withstand the high price of passion.
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HoliGay
Book Title: HoliGay by K.M. Neuhold
Published: January 1, 2021
Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Read MoreI’ve been in love with my best friend for almost as long as I can remember. The only problem is he’s straight. At least I thought he was. But when he gets me to Fiji for Christmas, he’s suddenly looking at me in a way I’ve never seen before. Could this all be real, or is he just HoliGay?