I’ve been on a real erotica and M/M kick lately so I grabbed Christine d’Abo‘s No Quarter from the Amazon KDP list. At the time of posting it was still free.

Description from Goodreads:
When bounty hunter Gar is given a simple locate-and-retrieve mission, he’s convinced it’s a waste of his skills. His success rate is legendary, and this assignment is almost too easy.

There isn’t a more prolific space pirate in the galaxy than Captain Faolan. When he walks into a bar with a proposition heavy in mind, he’s not expecting anything to go wrong.

Forced from his solitary existence to work with Faolan, Gar can’t deny his need and desire for a man who he should put in prison. When the hunter becomes the hunted, Gar must learn to put his faith in a man he doesn’t know, or run the risk of ending up dead.

Review:
Though I think it probably should have been titled No Quarters, this was an entertaining enough book. The sex was practically molten it was so hot. I mean like really smexy and there is a lot of it. I really liked both Gar and Faolan (much more in the beginning than in the end though). The plot was engaging and the writing fine.

But I also had a few issues with the story. To begin with there was the fairly drastic change in attitude that both men took in order to fall into each-others arms the first few times. One minute their at each-others throats, amped up and barley restraining themselves from murdering each-other, the next their having hot passionate sex. This I could buy (given the extenuating circumstances) except that they were suddenly tender, considerate lovers. I would have at least expected angry sex, but no, it was all soft embraces and ‘I’ll take care of you’. Then there was Mace. What are the chances of that happening? Realistically almost none, but paradoxically I also found it painfully predictable. The same could be said for the bad guy. Could he really have been responsible for ALL OF THAT?

This was a fairly erotic M/M read, but at it’s core it really is a romance. Two lonely, broken men find each-other and heal each-other’s wounds. I have to admit I preferred them hard and broken to romantic and fragile, but that’s just me really. I’m not a firm believer of the requisite HEA. As a Amazon freebie I was more than happy with it. I even considered getting the sequels, but their pricey for their length so I opted instead to see if they ever comes up for free.