Lee Brazil’s Less Than All is a complex tale despite its brevity. Less Than All is a historical gay romance about an older Lord Victor Ware and Nicholas Danville, a school friend of Ware’s younger brother, Peter. The novel takes place between 1813 and 1815 in England and much of it focuses on the relationships [...]
Historical Romance Book Review Rogues is the third book in Ava March’s Brook Street trilogy. Rogues focuses on best friends with benefits, young aristocrats Robert Anderson and Linus Radcliffe. Both characters appear in the previous books in the series. Robert and Linus have a long history with each other from childhood to school at Eaton. [...]
Brook Street Fortune Hunter by Ava March is the story of Oscar Woodhaven and Julian Parker, two young English gentlemen of the Regency period in London, England. These two men meet each other through Benjamin Parker, one of the main characters in the first book of the Brook Street trilogy. Oscar Woodhaven is a sensitive [...]
A Gay Historical Romance A Private Gentleman by Heidi Cullinan is at its core the love story of Lord George Albert Westin and Michael Vallant; it’s a tale of failure and redemption in families, friendships and society. Cullinan paints a vivid tapestry of passion and pain, of love gone down to the depths of hell [...]
Mad Dog and Englishmen is short confection of a tale about Timothy Green, a young Englishman in Italy as an aid to the British Ambassador and Cosimo, a young Italian painter. Pazzia, a pugnacious little white bulldog with a piratical eye-patch of color also plays a very prominent roll as matchmaker. Roman paints scenes of [...]
Engaging Affairs is a brief glimpse into the life of aristocratic Donatien and his best friend, Luc Lafayette. The story takes place during the revolutionary period in France, but the actual details of the period are sketchy. This is one of the shortcomings of the short story. It’s hard to understand how aristocrats could live [...]
Convincing Leopold is the sequel to Convincing Arthur by Ava March. Convincing Leopold takes up the romance between these two young men after they return to London and the real world. Both men are faced with obstacles to forging a stable and lasting relationship. Arthur Barrington is overworked and Leopold Thornton doesn’t have anything to [...]
Kindred Hearts by Rowan Speedwell is a sweeping novel; it follows the main character Tristan Northwood, an aristocratic young wastrel from his childhood to his marriage to his awakening realization that he is attracted to his wife’s brother, war hero Major Charles Mountjoy. To everyone he meets Tristan is the epitome of a fine young [...]
The Gentleman and the Rogue takes place in England after the Battle of Badajoz. Sir Alan Watleigh, late from the war finds himself out on the town looking for a bit of pleasure in a dark moment of his life. What he finds is Jeremy Brown. Jeremy, or Jem as his friends call him, is [...]
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