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Book 1,025: We Only Kiss at Christmas (Christmas Collection #2) - Con Riley

This is a shared universe story with His Last Christmas in London and I’m so happy that we got Seb and Patrick’s story! They were so adorably mismatched and perfect for each other in that first novel that I really hoped they would get their own. Seb and Pat were Ian’s roommates from His Last Christmas in London. Seb is smaller and feisty and has a whole history we learn about in this novel, and…

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geoffwhaley · 7 hours

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Book 1,024: Planes, Trains, and Hurricanes - Eli Easton

I grabbed this one over winter break from Kindle Unlimited, because I wanted to read a MM Holiday Romance and Eli Easton is one of those MM Romance authors who writes good stories, they’re not the best, but I do enjoy them. And growing up in the hurricane belt (Southeastern NC) I was interested in finding out WTF was happening in this novel. Planes, Trains, and Hurricanes is the story of Joe, NYC…

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Book 1,023: Catered All the Way - Annabeth Albert

Annabeth Albert can write a MM Romance novel. Seriously, y’all I say it every time and re-reading the few notes I took as I type this up months later ALL THE FEELS come back so fast and then when you add in the two cameos from her Out of Uniform series and The Geek Who Saved Christmas, it just gets even better! This one of those close proximity, long pining younger brother of a friend romances…

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geoffwhaley · 1 month

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Book 1,022: Kiss and Cry (Love on the Ice #2) - Keira Andrews

I’m pretty sure I stumbled across this one before I realized it was part of a “series” with Only One Bed and apparently a couple other books seem to have been retconned into the series (pretty sure those protagonists are definitely mentioned in this one. At the time I was looking for more diverse protagonists on the covers of the MM Romance novels and this one popped up and here we are months and…

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geoffwhaley · 1 month

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Book 1,020: Not So Silent Night - H.L. Day

This has been on my Kindle for at least a year, if not two. I think I added it to my list when I went through the “How many MM Holiday Romances can I read in a month?” phase. Either way it sat there until now and I was flipping through looking for a light hearted read after the dense nonfiction of The West. Starting out, I really wasn’t sure if it was going to be a hate read to finish it or if I…

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geoffwhaley · 1 month

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Book 1,021: Only One Bed (Love on the Ice #1) - Keira Andrews

I’m not sure if I would say Keira Andrews is the Queen of Christmas for me, but she really does bring it when she writes holiday themed MM Romance novels. Every time I go to read one, she has a new one and if they’re always fun, relatively low angst and swoon worthy. Only One Bed is a friends to lovers, one bed/forced proximity, bisexual awakening novel and as per usual I am here for it. Sam and…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,019: The West - Naoíse Mac Sweeney

This was a fascinating read. Mac Sweeney takes what you think you know about “Western Civilization” and attempts to flip it on its head via fourteen mini-biographies about historical figures, only a few of which I knew immediately. I feel horrible it’s taken me this long to push my response out. The publisher reached out in January 2023. I blew past the publication date in May 2023, and finally…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,018: Rocky Start (A-List Security #4) - Annabeth Albert

The final installment of Albert’s A-List Security closes out the series with a bang. It’s relatively low-angst (mostly internal) and one major dramatic crisis, but overall, the series has been pretty low-key. This book is a veteran-veteran romance rather than a veteran-civilian romance. Malik and Avery are both former SEALS and have connected with Duncan and Harley in their transition back to…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,017: Bad Deal (A-List Security #3) - Annabeth Albert

This was an unexpected entry in this series. I’m not really sure why, as it makes sense, but for me it stands out as slightly different than the others. Some of it may be that she brought more humor to this one that she did in the earlier two, or maybe it was the fake-boyfriend trope that I’ll always love, or maybe it was the characters ¯_(ツ)_/¯ With Bad Deal we have Harley, Duncan’s (from Hard…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,016: Hard Job (A-List Security #2) - Annabeth Albert

Book two of Albert’s A-List series finds us picking up not long after Tough Job leaves off. This time we’re with Danny’s stepbrother, Duncan, and his best friend, Ezra. Duncan is the head of the security firm that the series gets its name from, and Ezra is a rockstar living his best life. I honestly can’t remember why Ezra needed the security, he may have fought with his previous person, it may…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,015: Tough Luck (A-List Security #1) - Annabeth Albert

Annabeth Albert loves to write a MM Military/Veteran romance and I am here for it. I love Annabeth Albert and I love MM military/veteran romances, so it’s a match made in heaven for all I have to say about it. The piece that I was meh about, was the body-guard aspect of the series, but seeing some reviews on Goodreads, maybe I’ve been missing out! Tough Luck is the story of Danny Love, a…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,014: Find Me Worthy (Safe Harbor #3) - Annabeth Albert

Of the three books in Annabeth Albert’s Safe Harbor trilogy, this one was by far my favorite. I won’t say it’s unfortunate that you need to read the other two to get to this one, because they’re still well written books, but you do have to read the two of them to truly appreciate this book due to the underlying murder mystery that ties them together. Find Me Worthy is the story of Sam, the…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,013: Make Me Stay (Safe Harbor #2) - Annabeth Albert

If there is a theme to Albert’s Safe Harbor series it is a little bit too much. Don’t get me wrong, they are not bad books, each one just has one or two too many elements for me. They’re still very well written character driven stories, there’s just too much going on for my personal tastes. I’m not sure if this falls under the hurt/comfort or maybe (hurt/comfort)2, but it is somewhere in that…

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geoffwhaley · 3 months

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Book 1,012: Bring Me Home (Safe Harbor #1) - Annabeth Albert

This is probably the novel I should’ve picked up to end my dry streak. Annabeth Albert has almost always given me a great read with wonderful character driven plotlines. Even on the few occasions that I wasn’t enamored, I was still impressed with the characters (especially the minor) and the humor. This book was no different. It isn’t my favorite book by Albert, but it is a wonderful read opening…

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geoffwhaley · 4 months

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Book 1,011: Catch Me If I Fall - Noah Steele

This book had so much that I wanted to love, but only just enjoyed. To be fair, a lot of the pressure was from me and if I would’ve read the book any other time, I probably would’ve been enamored. I picked this up after not reading anything for leisure for almost 6 weeks and after I finished this it took another almost 12-weeks to pick up another, even though it was summer, and I didn’t have as…

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geoffwhaley · 4 months

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Book 1,010: The Inside Edge - Ashlyn Kane

Book 1,010: The Inside Edge by Ashlyn Kane #contemporaryromance #figureskating #gayromance #hockey #mmromance #mmsportsromance #sportsromance #gayfiction #books #bookbloggers #bookreview

So, if we’ve learned anything over 13 years of blogging, I enjoy most MM Romances tropes, but for some reason this past year I’ve been obsessed with hockey/figure skating romances. I don’t know why, maybe it’s that I’ve finally acclimated to New England, but they are just giving me life these days. This is the sixth one I’ve read in 2023 and I have at least 2-3 more coming before the calendar…

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geoffwhaley · 4 months

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Book 1,009: Long Time Coming - Ava Olsen

I’m not sure how I stumbled across this one, it was probably a random email from Prolific Works that I just happened to actually open and they happened to profile a MM Romance novel in it. It’s the story of Chase, a news anchor, and Ashton, a nonprofit CEO, college acquaintances who reconnect later in life at a gala event hosted by Ashton. There’s drama and office gossip and Ashton’s adorable…

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