Review: Read This One With The Lights On!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
Given the calendar, I was in the mood for a ghost story, and a friend recommended Northern Light by debut author E.J. Russell. I'm so glad I took the recommendation. I don't read a ton of M/M romance, (although I find good M/M just as sweet, sexy and engaging as good traditional M/F romance, it's just sometimes I feel like a peeping Tom-ette, checking out the salacious details of a different lifestyle). But Northern Light didn't take me there. It took me on an emotionally gripping ride involving ex-lovers still battling plenty of chemistry, who land on opposite sides of a suspected art forgery. If all that history and conflict weren't enough, there's also some ghostly interference afoot.Luke and Stefan felt real to me--their regrets, their frustrations. Confronting an ex is never easy...especially not the one you never really got over.  The external plot provided a perfect framework to force these two into each other's lives again. And the ghost story...that just takes the tension to a whole `nother level!Northern Light is a short, intriguing, spine-tingling read. The perfect precursor to Halloween!