Book Title: Summers Power (Danger City Book 1)
Author and Publisher: BL Jones
Cover Artist: Art Lynx Covers
Book Release Date: March 30, 2023
Genres: MM Mafia Romance, Dark comedy
Can two British gangsters who grew up archenemies find light in their shared darkness?
The daylight between us, and the darkness we share.
Danger City has been ruled by the bloody iron fists of the Winters crime family for decades.
When the Summers family waged war on the Winters in an attempt to take their power, violence reigned, taking no mercy on both sides of the conflict. The Summers were eventually defeated and as a result Max Summers lost everything.
Flash forward sixteen years, Max is a new man, no longer a gangster, but a simple primary school teacher still grieving the loss of his first love and trying his best to raise his children as a single father.
Cue his old rival Sam Winters re-entering his life when their oldest sons meet at school and become best friends.
During their time apart, Sam continued on the path laid out for him, climbing the organisation’s ranks right to the top. He has become every inch the mighty and lethal crime boss he was born to be.
After their unplanned reunification, both men are forced to confront the nightmares of their joint past and the burgeoning desire which seems to be developing between them.
Can Max allow himself to fall in love with anyone again, let alone the man who was once his greatest enemy?
CONTENT WARNING: This book contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults. It also includes mentions of dead parents, mentions of dead spouses, violence, panic attacks, trauma, grief over past loss, mentions of child abuse, mentions of prior homelessness, mentions of past animal abuse, visit to prison to see an incarcerated relative. Also note this book has a HFN ending.
It is part of a duology and does not end on a cliffhanger
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Summers Power by B.L. Jones
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sam Winters is the heir to the most infamous crime family in Danger City. His arch nemesis, Max Summers wants nothing more than to destroy Sam. They do their best but can’t quite manage to destroy each other as young men. Now that they are adults, facing a possible new future, the urge to eviscerate has gone. Leaving room for something new.
I really enjoyed Max and Sam. Their snark was excellent, which is a good thing because there was a lot of it. The author filled in their backstory with memories and current conversations. I can take or leave children in stories so I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked their offspring. They inherited their snarkyness from their fathers. Their friends were entertaining and important to their story. Max’s family was sparse but figured strongly into the book. Sam’s family was just unlikeable, almost nightmarish.
It seemed (at times) heavy on the angst. Both men losing their wives ran through the whole storyline. I liked that neither discounted the love that they felt (and still feel) for their wives. The only real complaint is that the inner dialogue sometimes stretched out to much. It ended on a HFN.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
BL Jones is a twentysomething British author who spends all her free time reading and writing and taming her three little brothers. She lives in Bristol with a temperamental bunny named Pepsi. She’s been writing stories since she was five, rarely sharing them with anyone except her numerous stuffed animals. BL has had a difficult journey into discovering and accepting her own queerness, and therefore believes that positive, honest, and authentic stories about queer people are very important. She hopes to contribute her own stories for people to have fun with and enjoy.
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