Books, Booze and Brunch

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...

Man, Cat Sebastian has really found her wheelhouse in writing gay romances set in mid-20th century America. This one takes place in New York...

A charming hockey romance about a goalie in the minors who gets called up to the NHL and finds both his confidence and true love! This is a ...

I liked this one better than the other romance I read by this author this month! I can't say that I completely recommend it, but this is...

Sigh, another Christmas romance that's...fine, I guess? This is somehow the third fake dating storyline within the same series, where on...

I keep trying gay romances by this author, because they wrote a couple of romances I read a while ago that I remember liking a lot, and then...

Well, one of the best things I can say for this novella is that it was short, except that its main flaw was also its slightness. Two best fr...

The sequel to The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, this book is just as delightful and captivating as the first one. The focus of this boo...

Man, I loved this book. Two men who have been sleeping together but don't know each other's real names at a pub in London part on ba...

We have once again hit the time of year when I stop pretending there's any chance of me getting to Book Zero and finishing my To Be Read...

A lovely novella to read on a summer afternoon! There's not a lot of conflict in this gay regency romance, but sometimes that's just...

Well, it took me until February 7, but I finally read a great Christmas romance novel this season!  Honestly, I expected this to be great; i...

Man, every once in a while I hit a book by this author, who I usually enjoy a lot, and just completely bounce off of it. In this case, the s...