In 2021 I read 151 books that I rated for Goodreads. This is the first of three posts highlighting my favorites 🙂 all highly recommended as I absolutely loved them all.
COMPETITION
I would love to gift one of these books to two lucky people who comment below with their favorite of this first group of 8
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Brooke Blaine – A Little Bit like Love (South Haven #1) – https://geni.us/x9T4E82
Xenia Melzer – Arthropoda (Andi Hayes Murder Mystery #1) – https://geni.us/lOfIAB6
Layla Reyne – Relay (Changing Lanes #1) – https://geni.us/rUBVo9b
Riley Hart – The Endgame (Atlanta Lightning #1) – https://geni.us/ZK4ByB
L.C. Chase – A Song for Harlan (Pickup Men #4) – https://geni.us/A9WGt
H.L. Day – The Beauty Within (Standalone) – https://geni.us/qFSDxpb
Tal Bauer – The Jock (The Team #1) – https://geni.us/x1Az
Thanks for the recs! I’ve read three of these, my favorite is The Jock, just lovely and beautiful🥰
I loved Inside Affair. Ella and Brooke are a great writing duo and really let the characters speak to me as a reader.
So many great books! I loved The Jock so much. Tal Bauer is an auto buy for me!
The Jock Tal Bauer .
There are three that I already have and they are still TBR so not wanting to add anymore atm, but thanks at least I’m in good company
I haven’t read them all yet, but I loved The End Game by Riley Hart
Of the books listed I have read three, and absolutely loved them all! But I am going to choose The End Game, Riley Hart. I loved that these guys were mature, had to fight for their relationship, and respected each other! Loved their story. Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine books were good reads!! Together they are a fantastic writing duo.
I have to add the others to my TBR!!
I’ve read only one of those,but I have several of them on my e-reader waiting for me to read soon. I enjoyed Prime Time too!
Sorry, I meant Inside Affair. 😅
I loved ‘The Beauty Within’ – and it’s recently come out on audio too!
Oh my what can i say about End Game by Riley Hart it was one if my favourite books of the year could not put the book down it was so nice to Weston love for Anson ,How Anson grew in confidence to be the man who he was suppose to be and that was because he found the love of
his life Weston and that love made him be strong and brave he telling the world that he was gay and he found the love of a good man .
Ok i also read loads of books last year and boy i loved this series by Ella Frank Inside Affair telling us Xander and Sean love . how they are long time friends but when Xander wanted a bodyguard Sean put him self forward for the job ,which Xander was not to pleased about but Sean been Sean he basically told Xander that he was the best man for the job . The banter between the two men going back and forward so funny at times .Also the reaction of Sean’s brother were so funny how was Sean going to pass of gay but by this time Sean was so confused by his feeling for Xander . it was lovely to see how these two men end on such a happy note in book 3
I read a couple of these but OMG…The Jock…hand’s down for me…
End Game is the only one I read and I loved it! I’ll check the others out.
Thanks for the recommendations. I have read quite a few of them. I enjoy seeing what others have read. It can lead to new author finds. I am interested in trying A Little Bit of Love. Thanks again.
The Jock was probably my favorite but I enjoyed The End Game quite a bit as well.
I haven’t read any of these but a few are on my tbr especially The Beauty Within
I’ve read a few of these authors, but none of these particular books. Oh! My poor TBR.
I haven’t read any of them yet. If I had to pick the one I’m most likely to read, it would be The Endgame by Riley Hart.
Arthropoda
I’d definitely pick the Jock as my favourite. But Endgame was amazing as well.
The Endgame
Have not read any of these but A Song for Harlan & The Beauty Within look good.
Wow! I’m sad to say I haven’t read any of them, but The Jock and Endgame are both on my TBR list. I’ll definitely check out the others as well.
I loved The Jock with The Beauty Within a close second.
Loved The End Game and The Jock. There are so many great books that you shared aboe 🙂
I’ve read a few of these, my favourite from this list is The Beauty Within. It’s not the sort of book I would normally read but I loved it.
I love Ella Frank, Riley Hart and Brooke Blaine. I’ve read some of the other ones on your list. I’m going to try a few new to me authors from your recommendation.
I loved The Jock, It was one of the first MM books I read and it really drew me in, not only the story but the struggle of the main characters as they made their way in life. I haven’t read many of the others but will add them to my TBR. Thanks for the recommendations.
I loved both Brooke Blaine’s: a little bit like Love and Riley Hart’s: The End game – hard to choose one between them!
Judging by previous comments, I need to read both Inside Affair by Ella Frank and the Jock by Tal Bauer.
I’ve only read a little bit like love and Relay and I loved them both. The others I have heard about and I want to read those as well.
The old saying “one man’s meat….” and all that. Someone will love a book that someone else just won’t like at all; which is why we only give books stars, never a written review.
My read count for 2021 is 251 so I beat you (and OH on 174). From your selection, The Beauty Within is a clear first. I’ve read it twice on KU and it’s on my buy list for whenever I want to read it again. Inside Affair is a close second – I’ve got all three in the series and each gets better than the last. I’m gonna put The Jock at the bottom as a book I just couldn’t get into – I returned it to KU about 7 pages in. OH made it a bit further before he returned it too. Not a criticism of the book so much as both of us being sported out; we no longer bother with anything hockey, baseball, football (sorry RJ & Vicki) tho we will buy Railers 11 to complete (?) our set. We’ve added a couple of books from this selection to our list for the future tho that may be a long way off as (gulp) our combined total of unreads in our libraries is currently 351!
What we’d really like to see is a certain author getting round to writing English Hearts book 2. Tho we’re breathing regularly 🙄.
A little bit like love
Hard to choose just one but The Beauty Within and A Song for Harlan were my favs.
Really loved The Jock — but, from this list — End Game!!!
Hope you are well!
I haven’t read any of them yet, but a couple are in my TBR pile. Thanks for sharing!
the Jock was the only one I read… I liked it a lot
I’ve only read Inside Affair (loved it) and The Beauty Within (also good) of these and if I had to choose between them I’d choose Inside Affair. I’ve tried Tal Bauer and haven’t been able to get into their books, maybe I need to try more of them. I’m super picky about my main characters (people who start off the book mean or jerky – not just grumpy – make me put it down immediately as it is a trigger) and I also tend to steer away from sports romances because people who are not out stress my anxieties too much for me to enjoy their stories. But I keep hearing really good things about Bauer’s books so perhaps I’ll try some others.
I’ve only read Inside Affair and it was brilliant. I now have such a long list of books to read! Thanks for sharing
I loved the Endgame and Inside Affair. Re-read them a couple of times as well.
The endgame by Riley Hart
Inside Affair by Ella Feank
Inside Affair by Ella Frank
I enjoyed Arthropoda a lot – something a bit different! And The Jock – always guaranteed a great read from TB!
I haven’t read any of these books as yet…..if I was to choose, I’d go with A little Bit Like Love by Brooke Blaine…..love a 2nd chance story !
Inside affair by Ella Frank, I really enjoyed other books from this list but the entire Prime time saga is *chef kiss*
Thanks for the recommendations, all going on my TRB list.
The Beauty Within
I’ve only read two of these and both were good but Xenia Melzer – Arthropoda was a favorite can’t wait for the next
None of these are read yet, but Riley Hart’s is on my TBR
I am looking forward to investigating most of these – haven’t read any of them yet.
The Endgame
Thanks for the recommendations. I haven’t read any yet, but The Beauty Within by H.L. Day looks fabulous.