Friday Reads | Drawing Love

January 13, 2017February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

This Friday I’ve read Tully Vincent‘s Drawing Love. It’s been out for almost a year but I first saw it now – shows how good I am at paying attention. I’ve been meaning to read Tully Vincent’s debut story, The Last Yeti, since it came out in 2015 but it’s still there on my to-read list *sigh*.

I’m glad I read Drawing Love as soon as I saw it, though. It’s super cute.

Taylor is organising the Cupid Dance at his school. The pressure is wearing on him, as is having to make a decision about what to do in the future. All the stress is making his agoraphobia worse and walking through the school doors is threatening to set off a panic attack. But, turns out, Taylor isn’t the only one being nervous today. Gordon, Taylor’s kindergarten sweetheart, has something he wants to ask Taylor.

Drawing Love left me smiling, and it managed to do so in only nineteen pages. I love short fiction when it’s done well!

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Taylor Elliott takes being head of the Cupid Dance decorating committee very seriously–he’s determined to dazzle his fellow students with his knack for glitz and glamour. Until the committee’s techie bails at the last minute and Taylor’s agoraphobia kicks in, leaving him on the verge of a panic attack. Can a childhood cupid show Taylor how to use his flair for creating sparkle in a whole new way?

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Friday Reads | Tommy’s Blind Date

January 6, 2017February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 1 Comment

The first Friday Reads post of the year *rubs hands*. I’ve been reading Tommy’s Blind Date by Anne Brooke, not because I longed to read it, I didn’t even know what it was about – though the title says it all, doesn’t it? No, I read it because those rubber ducks glare at me every time I look at my kindle library. I’m not sorry I read it, though.

Opening the book, I don’t know what my expectations were but it made me smile. A couple of pages in Tommy is on a blind date with the much younger, much hornier, and much drunker Hector and I just love it when Tommy ‘queens it up for Britan’.

This is not a story filled of surprises, you pretty much know what’s going to happen all along, but it didn’t bother me. It’s short, it’s steamy, funny, and a good friends-to-lovers read. Definitely, worth the glaring ducks LOL!

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Thirty-two year old Tommy Godolphin has been on a series of blind dates, as he doesn’t want to be single any more. However, none of them really hits the spot and the latest one has proved a complete, if amusing, disaster.

When he recounts what happened to his best friend, Jacob, he expects Jacob to laugh with him as usual, but this time he doesn’t. Instead, Jacob challenges Tommy to go out on a blind date with him, to see what, if anything, he might be doing wrong. If Tommy accepts, how will their friendship survive?

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Friday Reads | The Christmas Mansion

December 30, 2016February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

The last read of the year! I was going back, thinking maybe this would be post #52 in the Friday Reads category and turning it into an anniversary post of sorts – it’s #54. Apparently, I didn’t start 2016 by deciding to do Friday Reads posts, I started in December 2015. Time flies. So, for this 54th post, I’ve read The Christmas Mansion by Hollis Shiloh.

I’m absolutely certain I’ve read Hollis Shiloh before but according to my read shelf on Goodreads I haven’t. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t, though, I fear I’ve read a lot of books that never made it to my GR shelves.

The Christmas Mansion is a short, sweet story about a man fixing up a mansion for a Christmas party and the magician he hires to help him.

It’s a gentle story in a historical setting, but apart from the mentioning of Christmas a few times I didn’t get a holiday feeling. This is not a steamy read, it’s not packed with action, and even though the love interest is a magician there isn’t much of the paranormal either…but it’s sweet.

If you want one last Christmas read for the year, check it out.

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In a world of gas lighting and horse-drawn carriages, Rex is fixing up an old mansion to host a Christmas party for his wealthy family’s business. He meets a gentle, insecure magician named Gene, who’s come to work on the crumbling mansion’s moldings. He doesn’t expect to fall in love.

Note: This story first appeared in “Christmas Delights,” a collection of Male/Male gay romance stories set in and around the
Christmas season.

Length: 9,615 words

Heat level: sweet

Themes: Christmas, magic, gay romance, sweet romance, historical fantasy

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