Yep...intriguing for sure. I first fell in love with Darien Cox's Victim of Love" and immediately went in search for other edgy stories to consume. And edgy I got. Well...maybe not so much edgy but definitely eye raising.

This book involves one of our MC's being in an Open Relationship.



A first for me. And while I was kind of taken back, our MC was just so sweet and adorable that I just had to see where this would go. Now granted his "boyfriend" is a crazy asshole...so that helped me be OK with this. I guess OK is the right word? I just wanted our MCs together and ole asshole to GO AWAY!!

The first 70% of this book I really enjoyed...but how this ended up was a little too rosey cheeked for me. I needed a little more angst, a little more drama, a fight...something. Things just fell in place just too easy for me.

So what's next...well the asshole has his own book. Will I read it...but of course. :)

The was a good read and I got to push some personal limits for myself related to an open relationship (which I am more convinced than ever can never truly work) and at what point lines of cheating are crossed. This may not be for everyone but I was intrigued from the start.

BR with Elsbeth (Momo started but this one wasn't for her)

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Thank you Els for the gift and the BR. :) And bonus love for the Cover!
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Challenge: New-To-You Author (an author you've never read before)

Title: Guys on Top
Author: Darien Cox
Grade: B+

My M.O. on Amazon to pick out books to read is to look at the suggestions listed below the books I've really enjoyed (A-list books) and sample them for new authors. That's what I did in this case, but I can't remember which of my A-list books prompted this author and title.

I've found that I can't read the entire Amazon sample, but try to stop myself somewhere in the middle. If I read the entire sample, I've been known to buy a book that sounds interesting, but don't have time to read, and then read it later. But later I think I've already read the book because the beginning sounds so familiar even though the little Kindle indicator says I haven't finished the book yet.

All this brings me around to Guys on Top, a book that I read in one day, staying up at night to finish.

Two other things you need to know about me: I've read so many gay romances in the past two years that I often can tell exactly what happens in the book having read the first two chapters. In some ways the romance is gone from the romances I read. The second thing you need to know is that I haven't stayed up in a long, long time to finish reading a book because I'm uneasy about where it could be heading like this one did.

Read the rest of my review at Pat Booked: http://patbooked.blogspot.com/ ( )