![]() Nacho, to the locals) was my first instinct. Maxfield wrote this past weekend (had to…it was torture…) before I could pick a book for this list. ![]() I am quite confident that I’d make a decent hand on a sheep farm, based solely on my dozen rereads of this story that is so frigging uplifting it is my go-to book when I’m feeling blue. Her Scrap Metal is a love letter to the Isle of Arran, as much as to Nichol and Cameron, the heroes of this terrific book. Whether she takes you to an oil rig in the North Sea or the Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, you can taste the air in your mouth. ![]() Whether their books are based on actual places, post-apocalyptic futures, or imaginary planets, I remember the “Where” almost as much as the “Who” when I think of these stories. These authors create living, breathing worlds that burst with life or stink with rot. Ok, maybe not so much with the zombie apocalypse one. When I finish reading one of these marvelous books, I want to hop online, book a ticket on the next plane out, and just go there. Their words bring me the sights, the sounds, the smells even, of the worlds they create with such precision and care that settings of their books become characters in their own rights. ![]() (Who am I kidding? This should be #1 on the list!)īut there are a handful of authors I read because they transport me. ![]() For the stories that are still new and fresh in a genre that can sometimes feel jaded. I read M/M romance for a hundred reasons. ![]()
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