New Year New Read – Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads

Part of the New Year New Read project

(Note to Avery, see how I used the 1st as your day to be here!)

Now, Avery is an author I found through persistent marketing (we should learn from this). I was blown away by the covers (legs, kilts) and the premise of a group of guys playing football in Glasgow. Now, anyone who knows me knows I am not a fan of football (dodges flaming stakes and sharp knives). BUT… this series is not just about football, it’s about camaraderie, and tension, and lust, and romances, and cute stuff, and class division, and religious division, and … gah I could list it all… with added humour and angst, all set against the backdrop of football**.

Seriously, if you haven’t read it, then you need to 🙂

**Soccer if you’re not one of us… LOL

At the bottom of this post Avery talks about whats coming in 2016… go see! Personally I’d like there to be 12 Glasgow Lads books… LOL

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Playing for Keeps (Glasgow Lads Book 1)

Buylink: Amazon

Rule One: No Drama!
 
Fergus Taylor is damaged goods.
Reeling from a brutal breakup, he’s determined to captain his LGBT
soccer team out of scandal and into a winning season. For that, he needs
strict rules and careful plans. He does NOT need a brash, muscle-bound
lad messing with his head and setting his body afire. 

John Burns has a rule of his own:
Don’t get attached. Boyfriends are for guys with nothing to hide.
Nobody—not his university mates, not the men he beds—knows his family’s
shame. Now his double life is starting to unravel, thanks to a certain
Highlander whose storm-riddled eyes turn John inside out, who wears a
kilt like he was born in it. 

Fergus is the first man John wants
to share his secret with—but he’s the last man who could handle it. John
knows the truth would shatter Fergus’s still-fragile heart. But how can
he live a lie when he’s falling in love? 

Note: The Glasgow Lads series
contains dirty talk with a Scottish accent, naughty bits of a gay
nature, and characters who call soccer “football.” 

Review:
What can I say about Fergus and John? Poor broken hearted John, and
Fergus with all his secrets. Absolutely loved this book, and I am
totally hooked on this series.

Playing to Win (Glasgow Lads Book 2)

Buylink: Amazon

Colin MacDuff has nothing. Growing
up in a Glasgow slum, he learned never to trust, never to cry—and never
EVER to be at the mercy of anyone, especially rich men. So how did he
end up half-naked at a rave with Scotland’s hottest young aristocrat? 

Lord Andrew Sunderland has
everything. From ancestral castle to posh prep school, he’s spent his
life wrapping others around his wee finger. With a social circle full of
celebrities and politicians, nothing can stop Andrew’s rise to the top.
Nothing, that is, save his desire for a dirt-poor, wolf-eyed footballer
whose scars and tattoos tell unbearable tales. 

Colin and Andrew come from different
worlds, believe in different worlds, want different worlds. Yet every
time they touch, all worlds fall away. 

Set amid the fiery
Scottish-independence struggle, this searing gay romance tells the story
of two men who must lose everything to win each other’s hearts. 

Note: The Glasgow Lads series
contains dirty talk with a Scottish accent, naughty bits of a gay
nature, and characters who call soccer “football.” 

Review: My
absolute favourite of the series so far. Colin and Andrew’s story is
set against a momentous time in British History. A clash of classes, of
ideals, and a love that overcomes all… *melts*. Seriously, this book
should go on your buy list…

What is Avery up to in 2016?