When I buy an MLR title, I usually expect there to be, well, male romance. (That's what the ML stands for, after all.) When I buy a book by Laura Baumbach, I usually expect there to be sex - hot sex, even.

This book, alas, contains neither.

What it does contain is, as the back-cover featured review claims 'character analysis together with action-packed prose'. There's a plot, and it's interesting. There's characters, and they're interesting, too.

Not a bad read at all, in other words - just not the one you'd expect. ( )