Review: Love and Death in New England
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
Darian Cox is a new author for me but this book will not be the last one by this author that I intend to read. Brendan is a young lawyer opening a branch office of his father's law firm in Providence, Rhode Island.  On his first night there he takes his two clerks out for dinner at a well known Italian restaurant where he is so attracted to the bus boy that he can't stop looking at him.  Later that evening he and the bus boy meet outside the restaurant and go back to Brendan's hotel and have incredibly hot sex.  Soon after that the bus boy disappears and Brendan tracks him down and discovers something which is a very different twist that I will not give away.  In any event Brendan and Marc have a roller coaster affair which stumbles several times before ending with a HEA and during which they have some of the hottest sex I have read in quite a while. I did have a few issues with the book but not enough to give it any less than five well earned stars. One of those issues is simply a matter of fact: boys who grow up in Newton, Mass. (I grew up next door in Brookline, Mass.) are about 99% circumcised and boys who grow up in Italy (I have visited there many times) are about 99% uncircumcised.  The second issue is just that I thought that a police detective who shoots someone under justified circumstances would not become totally distressed over it.  In any event, this author is a wonderful addition to those writing in this genre, and this book is a superb read.  Don't miss it.