Title: Kestrel's Chance
Author: Harper Fox
Genre: m/m romance
Print length: 92 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2013
Rating: Five Stars
Blurb: Kestrel and Rory are the very best partnership in Wester Fleet’s elite Mountain Rescue Team. They’ve trusted one another with their lives for five years. They’re closer than brothers – but Rory’s feelings for his handsome, daredevil partner are far from fraternal.
He knows better than to tell Kes the truth. Climbing partnerships are a delicate balance of love and practicality, and the Fleet MRT has a strict non-fraternisation code. Rory could lose everything by a confession. And Kes is an enigma – sometimes distant, sometimes seeming to crave the very devotion Rory longs to give him.
Kes is all set to become the MRT’s next leader. He’s a shoo-in for the job, except for his impatience with amateur climbers and his inability to hold his tongue. When he and Rory are given the job of guiding two important visitors across the Fleet range, it’s a test of his tact to say the least. But nothing about this mission is as it seems, and soon Kes is facing the most terrifying challenge of his life.
Review:
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
I can't even express my joy at finding this little treasure waiting in my recommendations! I was already set to just wait out the long months leading to the June 11th release of the Brothers of the Wild North Sea, and then, out of nowhere, here comes this book. And let me tell you, although many things in life are uncertain, Harper Fox will never fail you.
I've spent some serious time trying to put into words this incredible, luxurious, magical thing that happens in Harper Fox novels. I just can't do it. I don't have the skills. Every single one of her novels inspires me, moves me, devours me even as I devour it in turn.
"The squat cement-poured block that housed the control and operations room, gym and shabby little pub-just the same, sharply reminding him that inner worlds could fall apart without making the smallest impact on sky, stars or stone."
What can I say? I read this in a few hours; now it's 2am and I'm ruined for quite a while. That's the only downside. Compared to Harper Fox, everything else tastes sour.
Buy it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kestrels-Chance-ebook/dp/B00C5TOCTE/ref=cm_cr-mr-img
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Title: In Search Of Saints
Author: Harper Fox
Genre: m/m romance
Print length: 83 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2012
Overall reviewer rating: Four and a Half Stars
Blurb: Mitch is on a last-ditch drive to save his career with the Scottish Institute of Archaeology after his ex-lover Lewis stole his research into the legendary Pictish saints. Mystical pre-Celtic statues are hidden somewhere on mist-wreathed Dove Island. Now Mitch is tearing out to the coast in the hope of reaching the saints before his treacherous ex can stake a claim. At his side is his devoted assistant, Owen.
Owen adores Mitch, but he’s the quiet, loyal type. Despite himself, Mitch is still dazzled by memories of flamboyant Lewis -- and in danger of destroying his newfound happiness with Owen. As the race for the saints intensifies, Mitch is losing perspective. Will he learn how to appreciate the love of a good man before he plunges himself and Owen too far into the deadly mysteries of Dove Island?
Review by bill m:
wow, just wow! This is another wonderful work from an artist so accomplished and talented that there aren't any superlatives or phrases adequate to describe her writing - although Harper Fox could do it, were she inclined to write about herself. At the London Olympics there were performances so beautiful, virtually flawless, that you sometimes found yourself holding your breath and not realizing that you were doing that - some of the diving competitions come to mind, where the competitors seemed to detach themselves from the gravity that binds the rest of us, effortlessly held in midair for a moment before deciding to come back down to where we mere mortals sat waiting - watching them is like reading a story like this one - here the words, and story, sail in the air, mesmerizing the reader until he or she comes back to earth with the last paragraph. But between the liftoff and the slicing into the water there's a tightly woven story about love and self-redemption, some hold-onto-your-seat action and a bit of the paranormal as well. Who cares if the ancients knew more about life than we do - Harper Fox is real, today, and writing stuff that deserves to be read and savored by the widest audience possible. Grab this one and get ready to hold your breath.
Buy it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-of-Saints-ebook/dp/B008TTIGCS/ref=la_B0089OGWB0_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1369111118&sr=1-12
Title: All Roads Lead To You
Author: Harper Fox
Genre: m/m romance
Print length: 45 pages
Publication date: June 7, 2012
Overall reviewer rating: Four Stars
Blurb: Successful British model Sam was making a big name for himself on the catwalks of Rome when he met and fell head over heels in love with Lauro, a waiter in a pizza restaurant. Lauro, charming and naïve, returned all Sam's affection, and they enjoyed one passionate summer in the vibrant city and the wild campagna countryside beyond. But Sam had big dreams. He accepted a modelling assignment in New York and left his pizza boy behind.
Now Sam is back, older and wiser. But Lauro is older and wiser too. Can the city of eternal romance work its magic on these two star-crossed lovers?
Review by Dianne:
This is a beautifully executed short story. The moods experienced by both Sam & Lauro, as well as those radiated from the Italian setting, were vividly portrayed. The author deftly maneuvers the reader through such issues as: miscommunication! avoidance of truth! assumptions! impetuousness! bravado! and... poor knowledge of Italian numerals ;-) to bring us a genuinely engaging story of true love. I was pleasantly surprised and thoroughly engaged with the clever plot twists (and readily admit to face-palming at one point). Love that the end was sweet yet indistinct - it left me breathless, smiling and daydreaming about what the next move for these two was going to be.
Thank you Harper for transporting me to Rome and her surrounding countryside in the company of Sam and Lauro :-)
Thank you Harper for transporting me to Rome and her surrounding countryside in the company of Sam and Lauro :-)
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