Reviewed by Amber

TITLE: Desert Heat

AUTHOR: Lucy Felthouse

PUBLISHER: Self Pub

LENGTH: 59 pages

BLURB:

Their love is forbidden by rules, religion and risk. Yet still they can’t resist.

Captain Hugh Wilkes is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan. The British Army is withdrawing, and Wilkes expects his posting to be event-free. That is, until he meets his Afghan interpreter, Rustam Balkhi, who awakens desires in Wilkes that he’d almost forgotten about, and that won’t be ignored.

REVIEW:

First things first….this book needs a sequel!! There HAS to be a sequel coming!! It’s not that this book ended on a cliffhanger because it absolutely did not but it did end in a really unsatisfying HFN kind of way. I don’t even know how to feel about this story without knowing that there is more on the way.

One of my most favorite genre’s is military m/m romance so I was all for this story. It sounded great and it was pretty good. I’d have loved more character development, I’d loved a lot more interaction and build up between Hugh and Rustam but given that this was such a short story, and a part of a bundle originally, I’m sure space really wasn’t allotted for that. I get it but I definitely need more.

Hugh Wilkins is a Captain in the British Army. He wants the military to be his career so he sees no reason to come out of the closet. In his mind he’s happy enough with the few and far between hookups he allows himself.

During his most recent deployment to Afghanistan he meets his unit’s new interpreter, Rustam Balkhi. He feels an immediate attraction to Rustam but pushes it deep down. He knows Rustam’s religion would kill him for homosexual acts, and being in hostile territory is no place to start a romance.

Forces outside their control push them together and they can’t deny or stop themselves from enjoying brief solace in each other’s arms.

There were only a few love scenes in this short story but they were good. Rustam and Hugh were comfortable in their skin as gay males and that comfort shined through when they were intimate.

This was a good story; great writing and I loved the military subculture that was interwoven throughout the chapters. I just really would have loved more but it was nice knowing these two found something good in all the bad.

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