Genre: Romance, Erotic, Billionaire
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
A secret weekend. A billionaire with walls. A man who’s done pretending.
Grayson Hart has always known what it means to fight for access. Logan Westwood was born with it. When a perfect first date turns into a private invitation to a luxurious hideaway, Grayson steps into a world of curated silence and whispered touches. But beyond the glass walls and designer charm, old wounds threaten to surface.
For Logan, privacy is armor.
For Grayson, honesty is survival.
And for both of them, love might be the riskiest proposition of all.
The Review
A Taste of Forever is the sequel to Unforgettable Encounter and follows Grayson as he goes on the promised second date with Logan. This second date is a weekend away, where Grayson has no idea but he packs light as it’s only a couple of days right? Three days at the most, so he packs two pairs of trousers, three shirts, swim trunks plus what he is currently wearing. Interestingly he packs no underwear or socks.
That’s where it all goes pear shaped, at least from an observant reader’s viewpoint, and it has nothing to do with the lack of boxers. Six nights pass, with little food other than a couple of breakfasts after four nights, when we get to hear Grayson say to Logan “You cook,” to which Logan replies “Occasionally”, a few glasses of wine and maybe three coffees. Grayson does not even get shown the guest room when he arrives so, he probably had to search for it himself when night falls unaccountably early.
Okay it’s a mess on the timeline level – the word ‘morning’ occurs twenty one times, even taking into account some refer to the same one, including the one that Grayson sets off on, that’s a lot of mornings. Well, six actual ones, so it really is some weekend. It’s a mess ,but a beautiful mess, as it happens.
Ignoring the timeline issues, there’s a definite change of atmosphere here from an Unforgettable Encounter. Logan was a confident man intrigued by Grayson and determined to get to know him. In A Taste of Forever, he starts off very remote, quiet and withdrawn, barely communicating with Grayson after dragging him to a remote house on the edge of a forest with no one else around.
It takes a few days (yeah, yeah, they don’t have days – it’s just a weekend – but still) for him to open up to Grayson, let alone feed him. A lot is left unsaid, and implied instead. Logan has a lot to lose, and he is afraid of dragging Grayson into the mess that might explode around them once their relationship becomes public.
There are some big issues to deal with for both of them and the reader, but this is a very atmospheric piece. The two guys feel real, with different problems and backgrounds but a real connection that won’t be denied. They do get to be down and dirty in a very romantic setting, so wonders will never cease.
I was left hoping they get more than a taste of forever.
The Reviewer
Tony is an Englishman living amongst the Welsh and the Other Folk in the mountains of Wales. He lives with his partner of thirty-six years, four dogs, two ponies, various birds, and his bees. He is a retired lecturer and a writer of no renown but that doesn’t stop him enjoying what he used to think of as ‘sensible’ fantasy and sf. He’s surprised to find that if the story is well written and has likeable characters undergoing the trails of life, i.e. falling in love, falling out of love, having a bit of nooky (but not all the time), fending off foes, aliens and monsters, etc., he’ll be happy as a sandperson who has just offloaded a wagon of sand at the going market price. As long as there’s a story, he’s in. He aims to write fair and honest reviews. If he finds he is not the target reader he’ll move on.
