Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Galen Frost buys a house and a bait shop in a small Florida town to get away from his life as a semipro football player. When he meets good-time bartender Shane Barton, the heat between them is instant and intense—like the burn of good whiskey.

Galen and Shane don’t have much in common beyond their healthy libidos and their love of a good time, but the intoxicating heat brings them together like rain on the ocean, whipping up a frenzy of weather… good and bad. When trouble blows ashore, they will have to ride out the storm that breaks between them as Galen’s past rears its ugly head.

First edition published by Torquere Press, May 2006.

Second edition published by Dreamspinner Press, October 2016.

Book Review

‘Rain and Whiskey’ must be one of the hottest male/male romances ever. It starts with a bang – the main characters getting right down to business minutes after meeting and exchanging names – and it only gets hotter from there. Galen, a former semipro football player who now owns a bait shop in Florida, and Shane who is a bartender, have matching libidos – but there is more to life than sex, even for these two horndogs. As they manage their way through the storms life inevitably serves up, they get to know each other and begin to figure out how a longer term relationship might work. What a ride that turns out to be! It’s been many years since I read this novel the first time, and it left great memories, so I was glad to get an opportunity to do so again with this second edition. I enjoyed their romps and adventures just as much the second time around.

Galen is done with his old life and is looking to start over. He bought his great-uncle’s bait shop, fixed up the small house that came with it, and is ready to settle down. Shane is a welcome “perk” of his new life, and Galen has all sorts of kinky ideas of what the two of them can get up to. But when the ex-football buddies he’d rather never have seen again come by, Galen begins to realize how much better his current life is than the old one ever was – not that he’d had any doubts before. That visit is the catalyst for some real change in Galen and Shane’s lives.

Shane has been enjoying life without thinking too much about objectives or achieving anything specific. He is drifting along, and meeting Galen is an education in more than the physical aspects of having a relationship. Shane gets quite the education about sex toys, things he never thought he might like, and playing with Galen until they’re both too exhausted to keep their eyes open.

While both men are in dissimilar places in their lives and have somewhat different expectations of the future, at least initially, once they meet, a lot of that changes. Galen has to learn to trust a lover again, and that is easier than he ever expected with Shane. Shane has never been one to be exclusive, but with Galen it feels natural. Not everything is as easy as that though, and the crisis, when it hits, is all the more serious because it was utterly unexpected.

If you like your romances on the spicy side of super hot, if two men with a voracious sexual appetite and a willingness to expand their physical explorations into the rest of their lives are your thing, and if you’re looking for a read that goes from hot to very emotional and loving, then you will probably like this novel as much as I do. Above all else, it is a lot of fun to see Galen and Shane deal with life!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 257 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	26-December-2019
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Rain-Whiskey-Stormy-Weather-Book-ebook/dp/B08375FKH9