Book review: Guarding His Heart by Beth Laycock

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Length: 38,000 words

Blurb

He'd risk his life to find his brother. But he never expected to risk his heart as well.

Three months since his brother, Jake, went MIA, Lane Matthews is tired of waiting for answers. With a little help, he arranges a posting to Jeddah for his first overseas deployment—the perfect opportunity to find his brother.

Life in a foreign land isn't quite like he imagined and neither are his duties. But when he meets his housemate, Tristan, while it may be memorable, it's not one of Lane's finest moments.

Tristan threatens to throw him way off course, and falling for the hot straight soldier is definitely not in his plans. But as tensions rise and the truth about Jake is revealed, will Lane's heart follow orders or will all be lost like grains of sand swept away in a desert?

Beth Laycock’s books are influenced by her time living overseas as well as the gritty, urban landscape of the north of England where she grew up.

She has been reading romance since she was old enough to tell herself that line every book lover does—just one more chapter.

As a teenager she attempted to write her first novel, and many more since then that are still gathering dust on her bookshelf. It wasn’t until she discovered the M/M genre that her muse showed up and refused to quit telling her stories about beautiful men finding love together. She hasn’t stopped scribbling them down since. Beth’s muse usually shows up when she is in the shower, is allergic to cleaning, rarely lets Beth watch TV, and insists she drinks copious amounts of coffee so she can turn caffeine into words.

When not writing or reading Beth can be found procrastinating on social media or being dragged around the English countryside by her dog.

Beth loves to chat about books on social media or you can email her at beth@bethlaycock.com

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Having been a gay member of the Air Force for 12 years, I really enjoy an MM military story. What I enjoy most about them is seeing gay characters doing what I could never do when I was in the military, which was long before DADT.

Through awesome writing, I really connected with Lane. I felt his pain and his desperate need to find to find his brother.

Since none of my overseas posting were in the middle east I had no frame of reference as to the Saudi Arabian landscape. Ms Laycock's brilliant writing made me feel as if I was right there in Jeddah, right along with Lane (my favorite character) and Tristan. It was like I was right there every step of the way with Lane.

However, I felt the story was unfinished. There were several loose ends. Perhaps that was Ms Laycock's plan, to get readers invested enough in the story to watch for a sequel or two.

All in all I give Guarding His Heart a 4 out of 5 stars and I do recommend it.