Review: Great!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2013
4.5 stars*SPOILER FREEI LOVE Josh Lanyon! I am a card-caring Lanyon fan and will hunt and devour anything he writes, so when I saw he had a title coming out in April from Carina Press I was stocked and when I saw the book was available on NetGalley I freaked hehe.Snowball in Hell is not only a great M/M Romantic Thriller, it is a historical one at that and it takes place in the 40's when coming out of the closet wasn't something that a police officer or anyone else, would consider doing. In Snowball in Hell, Josh Lanyon was able to deliver a great mystery and gay romance in a very NOT gay-friendly era and he did such a great job with it that you can't help but feel transported to that time.How can you write a romance in a time when it wasn't even conceivable to accept two men falling in love? Lanyon has done it and the frustration of unresolved feeling, urges and wants is as much of a character in this novel as Nathan Doyle and Matthew Spain.Two men with very different pasts, Matt and Doyle find themselves in midst of a murder investigation, with Doyle being a suspect and Matt trying to catch the bad guy. These two different men have something in common, their immediate magnetic attraction to each other that is so hard to ignore and that both are afraid to deal with.Snowball in Hell is a Historical Thriller, but first and foremost is a love story that if dependant on the society it takes place, would never happen. However, this story has defied time and beliefs by bringing together two men that needed each other to feel whole in a beautiful tale of murder, fear, prejudice and love.If I have one complain is that I wanted more! Snowball in Hell could have been longer and I would have been extremely happy. All in all, if the only complaint one has of a book is that you wanted to read more, it definitely should bode well that it is a worthwhile story. I say, it absolutely is and if you are an M/M Romance fan or a Josh Lanyon fan, you should check this one out!Originally Posted at Welcome to Larissa's Bookish Life