LGBTQ Romance
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Johnny T. Townsend
January 28, 2026
Ignore the cover and read the book
Bottom line is that I enjoyed the book. However, I almost didn’t purchase it because the cover seems to show two women and I wanted an MM romance. At the very least, I worried the men might be effeminate. Nothing wrong with that, of course, just not my personal interest. But the men in the book seem “masculine” enough. Next, the character who had to reexamine his principles was mostly Percy, not Kit, so the title isn’t quite accurate. But since Percy isn’t a particularly butch name, I suppose the title “sounds” better by mentioning Kit instead. Though Kit could be a woman’s name, hence my confusion over the cover image.
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Or by its title. But you know, those are the things we see first, so maybe they aren’t totally irrelevant.
Okay, rant over. The characters and story were strong and kept my interest. There were a few turns of phrase that didn’t feel authentic to the period, but that wasn’t a dealbreaker for me. I did like the realization that “there are no good landlords,” that to be a landlord is by definition to exploit other people.
