Genre: Erotic, Romance, Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
What happens when a 22-year-old art student falls for his father’s best friend?
Dylan never meant to cross a line. Gabriel was supposed to be off-limits—his father’s closest friend, a respected architect, and twice his age. But admiration turns into something deeper during casual family gatherings and quiet moments that linger too long.
As glances turn into touches and unspoken feelings ignite into a secret affair, Dylan and Gabriel are pulled into a relationship neither of them planned… or can seem to stop. Every encounter blurs boundaries, testing loyalty, trust, and the unrelenting pull of desire.
But when betrayal surfaces and the truth threatens to destroy what they’ve found, both men must decide if their love is worth the fallout—or if silence will keep them safe.
This emotionally charged MM romance explores:
- A powerful age-gap relationship built on longing and risk
- The forbidden dynamic of falling for someone you were never supposed to want
- Slow-burn chemistry that erupts into intense heat
- Deep character growth, emotional intimacy, and raw vulnerability
- A love story that refuses to hide, even when the world demands it
Unspoken Lust is the beginning of a passionate, boundary-breaking series about love that challenges expectations and dares to exist in the open.
The Review
Unspoken Lust is about the lead up to an eighteen year age gap romance between Gabriel and his best friend’s son, not something one would expect after reading ‘Before the Walls’ but then again, life is not about expectations. Stuff happens.
Gabriel is an architect, but this is not about his work, this is more about him being slowly sucked into Dylan’s orbit. Dylan is an art student and Mark Drell’s son. Mark is Gabriel’s long time friend and legal support, probably, I’m guessing, since becoming friends at university.
The two keep meeting by chance and slowly build a relationship, one that is only ever going to be trouble and, maybe, a potential disaster. Dylan is very much the driving force in the budding relationship but he is not the one who could get hurt the most.
It is not a long read but it is jewel-like in its simplicity and honesty. The relationship with a younger man is not an easy choice for a broken man like Gabriel, but it may be just what he needs. A worthwhile read.
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.
