I have far too many eProofs on my kindle. And I'm trying, slowly and surely, to go through them - whether that is reading them or going "What was I thinking?!". So, when I saw this on NetGalley a month or so, I went "Oooh" over it. This is an novella and is both LGBT and fantasy. All perfect for me at the moment.

Grif is tired. So, when he walks into the mountains in a snow storm, he isn't worried about surviving or not. But when he's indifference leaves him unconscious, Kieran finds him and nurses him back to health. Kieran is on an important mission and he doesn't need Grif, telling him he's not prepared for the winter mountains. But the two men are stuck together, with food being scarce and the weather not to be trusted. The two have to learn to depend on each other. But could this lead to something more...?

This is a sorbet read for me. It refresh my reading pallet for me as I've been quite lucky with what I've read and listened to over the past few weeks.

The story itself was ok. It moved at a good pace, the characters were engaging and it held my interest while reading. Plus, it is an adult reading so it does have language and scenes that are more suitable for an adult audience.

However, it didn't set my world on fire. The plot is basically the entire synopsis and once every chapter, I would groan over something. Plus, the story is meant to be a fantasy, but it is so thin, am surprise this is classed as a fantasy and not historical.

It was a sorbet of a read for me, but I think other people will enjoy this!

This book was completely not what I was expecting.
I really liked both characters, and I ship it, but from the advertising I didn’t expect an out and out romance.
Part of me struggles with a woman writing a m/m erotic romance for appropriation and representation reasons, but Sherwood so obviously adores her characters so much that I had to adore them too.

So, unexpected, but super sweet

Well, this was in the SFF section on Net Galley, but it only barely qualifies as such to my mind. It's certainly a secondary world, but it's wholly romance, with only the barest of worldbuilding features to indicate that it's not our world. A pair of men are stuck in the mountains, one with a bit of a death wish and the other completely unprepared for the weather. They end up saving each other's lives and learning how to deal with their feelings.

Our two men are both well-written and distinct, although both could do with some better communication skills. They play off each others' strengths well, and the ending was satisfying.

It moved along quickly, although it seems like most romance books don't take me terribly long to read them, when I do.

The sex isn't incredibly explicit, but it's also not all cut-to-black either. If you're uncomfortable with two dudes thinking about, and actually, fucking, this is definitely not the book for you.

You get basically what the blurb says, and if that's what you're in the mood for, then it's satisfying.

Two troubled men on one mountain in the middle of winter. Grif the grumpy and Kiernan the naive. I like the cover artwork and the story was a good one. I felt there could’ve been more of an ending. Everything flowed smoothly but a little epilogue would’ve made it better. I liked the imp. Karma needs to pay a visit to Vin.