Books, Booze and Brunch

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...

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...

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 ...

This is almost a really sweet and satisfying Christmas romance novel before it kind of falls apart in the end, sadly. Margot and her girlfri...

As is probably obvious from the title of this Christmas romance novel, it's a take on It's a Wonderful Life. But instead of an actua...

Exes who reunite is one of my favorite romance novel tropes, and it pairs especially well with a Christmas romance, since it's so easy t...

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...