Grantville Gazette Volume 22 & One Good Deed

Grantville Gazette Volume 22 edited by Paula Goodlett
Published by Baenbooks, 2009

Not all of the gazettes are brilliant – some are just Ok.  This is one of the latter.  It has a nice murder mystery set among the Medicis in Tuscany, another serial in the ‘Turn Your Radio On’ series about the spread of evangelical Christianity across Germany and then the start of what looks like an interesting series about a Danish startup colony in the Hudson Bay.  

The rest of the fiction and non-fiction are just OK.

3.5 Stars

This is Book 276 started, book 23 finished

One Good Deed by Andrew Grey

This is a m/m romance set in Milwaukee.  This is the story of a Serbian immigrant, Luka, who moved to the US to overcome his grief after the death of his long term partner and a local guy, Peter, who is still traumatized from accidentally killing his father as a child.

These are two wounded souls falling in love and helping each other heal.  As romance novels go, this is pretty plot heavy.

The book is charming and highly entertaining.  The sex is OK but not the best I’ve read.  The characters are all fairly well written and believable.

This is my first book by Andrew Grey but I will be reading more

4 Stars.