Books, Booze and Brunch

Note: I know the author socially.  A reread for my book club! Honestly I loved it even more on reread. I thought the agony of the neverendin...

Another vacation book! This one is a perfect post-retirement hockey romance by the author of the Game Changers series, but it's a standa...

Time for some vacation reads at a house in the woods! The first one is this extremely classic gay romance about a guy named Will who fled hi...

This is a perfectly adequate Christmas romance novella in which two retired hockey players end up in a bit of a Canadian shack situation and...

Set in the dying days of World War I, two former public school boy friends find each other again while convalescing from the front. One has ...

What a charming bite sized Christmas novella! This is actually much more in line with what I expected Honeypot to be like - it's two sec...

This is a gay romance novel that spans multiple decades and follows the romance of a soviet spy and an American spy who are partnered to sol...

An absolutely delightful gothic manor house murder mystery with bonus gay love story book! I really, really enjoyed what this story did with...

I confess that this was almost a DNF for me, but I decided that I wanted to know how it would resolve badly enough to stick with it. Do I re...

A story in a genre that already feels like a classic, even though it's really only been a thing for about twenty years at this point. We...

The final book in the Enlightenment trilogy following Beguiled , it's a very satisfying conclusion to both the relationship and the worl...

The sequel to Provoked , which I enjoyed very much, and hey I liked this one just as much! The two leads have come back together after years...

A book that beautifully straddles the line between a murder mystery and a romance! This author writes about damaged men finding each other i...

Sometimes you just need a classic gay regency romance to get through the day, and boy did this do the trick. We've got an upstanding law...

This was recommended by someone I follow on bluesky, and at first glance it looked like a standard (and delightful!) m/m regency romance nov...

Look, sometimes you need to end March with a gay Christmas romance novel, okay? This one has a lot to recommend for it - it's got a bake...

So I put a hold on this book in the library when I read the following quote from it: "There's no instruction manual for falling in ...

I finally made it to the sequel of Dark Rise ! And it was both exactly what I'd hoped for/expect while somehow being a bit less than the...

The second book in her series about mid-century gays living in New York City, this one unfortunately suffers a bit from comparison with the ...

Okay, look. If you're in the market for a hockey m/m romance novel to read on a porch while you're on vacation, this is perfectly se...