Recent Release Review: His Compass by Con Riley

27 January of 2021 by ButtonsMom2003

His Compass By Con Riley

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Age-gap, forced proximity

Released: January 14, 2021

Publisher: Figment Ink

Series: His Contemporary MM Romance, Book 2

Length: 85,000 words

Cover Design: Natasha Snow

Synopsis

Tom has one rule: don’t sleep with the crew. A second chance with a younger, gorgeous deckhand tempts him to break it.

After a busy season as a charter-hire skipper, Tom yearns for some downtime. His lonely heart also aches for adventure with someone special, but paying his bills has to come first. A surprise sailing contract and huge bonus offer his first glimpse of freedom for years. There’s only one catch: he must crew with Nick, a deckhand who jumped ship once already.

Nick’s as young and untested as the new yacht they’re contracted to sail, and he’s just as gorgeous. Forced to spend a month as Nick’s captain, Tom discovers depths he hadn’t noticed. He’s captivated, and happier sailing with Nick than he’s been in forever. However, their voyage is finite, and both men keep soul-deep secrets.

As the contract draws to an end, they must get honest about what’s in their hearts if they want to share a life at sea, and love, forever.

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Featuring an age gap that’s only a number, forced proximity that makes hiding attraction impossible, and a yacht that’s nothing but trouble, His Compass is the second novel in the His MM Contemporary Romance series from Con Riley.

♥ This shared-world series starts with His Horizon, but each book follows a different couple, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel complete with a fulfilling happily ever after. ♥

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I loved this book!!

Finally – I get to give a Con Riley book five fantastic stars! I was critical of the endings for each of the three books in Con Riley’s Seattle Series but His Compass was fulfilling in every single way. This is book two in the His Contemporary MM Romance series but it can be read as a standalone story. I haven’t read book one and I didn’t feel like I was missing anything but now I really, really want to go back and read His Horizon. Characters from that book do appear in His Compass and I want to know more about them.

Con Riley’s writing is wonderful – it’s the reason I’ve kept on reading her books even after being upset about the abrupt endings in the Seattle books. Her descriptions of the places that Tom and Nick visit really made me want to visit each of them. I don’t know anything about sailing but every detail in the story seemed perfectly believable to me.

I couldn’t put this book down and stayed up way into the wee hours of the morning (even for a night-owl like me) so that I could finish it. I’m afraid to say too much because I don’t want to give anything away. My heart broke at times for both Tom and Nick. It was obvious that they were hiding things from each other but I never would have guessed what those things were – especially not about Nick.

While there is a fair amount of angst in this book, it was all worth it for the way it ended. The epilogue was perfectly wonderful. I am so happy that I didn’t shy away from reading more of Con Riley’s work; reading this was more than worth the lack of sleep. 😊 ❤

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O Factor: Scorcher

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About Author

CON RILEY lives on the wild and wonderful Welsh coast, with her head in the clouds and her feet in the ocean.

Injury curtailed her enjoyment of outdoor pursuits, so writing fiction now fills her free time. Love, loss, and redemption shape her romance stories, and her characters are flawed in ways that make them live and breathe.

When not people-watching or reading, she spends time staring at the sea from her kitchen window. If you see her, don’t disturb her — she’s probably thinking up new plots.

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