Still, the potential story peeked out from under the bed occasionally and that is what I wanted more of.

I will state for the record that the sex depicted both of the aforementioned novels (both of which I rated four stars) was Hawt AF. There are many other examples of “books” that had so much potential story lost to raging hormones. That’s okay because there is just so much sex. However, all the pieces of the puzzle take up only a few pages despite being the whole reason for the young man to upend his life, join active military and travel to a dangerous country that is as foreign to him as one can get. The poor MC is so broken up with grief he can barely function, but that is okay because the super sweet love interest (seriously, he really was romantic and I loved him) is there with copious amounts of the naked. The men in his brother’s former unit seem to know more than they are telling and indigenous gossip tells an even different story. Wait, how does the mystery play out? I don’t know because every other page the current HMC is sticking a body part into the hMC and the real story, the part the blurb on the back cover is based on, never actually progresses.Ī Soldier is searching for his missing brother in a war zone. The men who are protecting the secret and the women they love are acceptable losses. To get only a hint of a great story, can be frustrating.Īn honor bound conspiracy hiding a secret that must be protected at all costs, the unknown sinister guy in charge has his own agenda. But does S E X have to happen on every third page? When did bumping uglies come to mean romance? What happened to, you know, actual romance? More than that, sometimes an author is more of a storyteller than a writer and I just want the story.

I am fully aware that sex is gonna happen in the books I read. No, I am not reading erotica, just typical contemporary romance. Lately I find myself writing into reviews that a romance story just has too much sex. See All My Favorite Quotes from This Bookīut wait … Secret Service by Tal Bauer is a romance book. “What matters is now and what we do with today.īook Title: Secret Service: A M|M Romance

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