IMHO, I found Out of Nowhere to be better than In the Middle of Somewhere (not only in terms of editing--which led to a tighter narrative--but because I had a fairly clear idea of the journey In the Middle of Somewhere was gonna take me. For me, Out of Nowhere's plot read fresher). Mind you, I think both books are great and I'm definitely looking forward to the 3rd one in the series (which will get published sometime next year, I think).
Tied to Trouble was exactly the way you described it. Mind you, it was the 3rd M/M book by Megan Erickson that I read in a row so I didn't mind that it went more into PWP territory in a way that the In Focus series didn't. Funnily enough, I'd gotten curious about Megan's novels because of Strong Signal. Santino is one of the v. few auto-buy authors for me, but I'd never read anything by Megan before. Unfortch, I've yet to read Strong Signal (though I'm hoping to get to it sometime before the end of the month).
Oh, and I totes agree with reading Seasons Pass AFTER one's read at least the first two books in the Enlightenment series. FTR, I've yet to crack opened Enlightened (but that's only because I'm doing a GR challenge and there are 8 books before I can get to it. #suckage).
I struck out with two of Jordan Castillo Price's published works way back when I began reading M/M (Sympathy and Hemovore). Although I could recognize that JCP is a good writer, neither writing worked for me. As a result, I've pretty much avoided her stuff. *hands*
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IMHO, I found Out of Nowhere to be better than In the Middle of Somewhere (not only in terms of editing--which led to a tighter narrative--but because I had a fairly clear idea of the journey In the Middle of Somewhere was gonna take me. For me, Out of Nowhere's plot read fresher). Mind you, I think both books are great and I'm definitely looking forward to the 3rd one in the series (which will get published sometime next year, I think).
Tied to Trouble was exactly the way you described it. Mind you, it was the 3rd M/M book by Megan Erickson that I read in a row so I didn't mind that it went more into PWP territory in a way that the In Focus series didn't. Funnily enough, I'd gotten curious about Megan's novels because of Strong Signal. Santino is one of the v. few auto-buy authors for me, but I'd never read anything by Megan before. Unfortch, I've yet to read Strong Signal (though I'm hoping to get to it sometime before the end of the month).
Oh, and I totes agree with reading Seasons Pass AFTER one's read at least the first two books in the Enlightenment series. FTR, I've yet to crack opened Enlightened (but that's only because I'm doing a GR challenge and there are 8 books before I can get to it. #suckage).
I struck out with two of Jordan Castillo Price's published works way back when I began reading M/M (Sympathy and Hemovore). Although I could recognize that JCP is a good writer, neither writing worked for me. As a result, I've pretty much avoided her stuff. *hands*