Funzee's Cozy Couch: RELEASE BLITZ & REVIEW : Perilous Hearts (Deviant Hearts #3) by A E Ryecart

Title: Perilous Hearts
Series : Deviant Hearts #3

Author: A E Ryecart

Publisher: Self-Published

Cover Artist: Meredith Russell

Genre/s: MM Romance (friends to lovers with psychological suspense)

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: approx. 95 000 words

Release Date: March 8, 2019
Rating : 4/5 Stars

It’s the third in the Deviant w series, but can be read as a standalone. There is no need to have read the other books in the series first.

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You can lock your door, but can you lock your heart?

Finding the courage to end his relationship with his manipulative and vicious boyfriend, Jamie Wheeler turns to his close friend Ed Corrigan to help him get his life back on track.

Jamie and Ed have been inseparable for years, and all it would take is a small step to cross the divide from friends to lovers.

It would be the biggest mistake they could make.

Jamie seeks the security of a settled long-term relationship, but Ed vows never to put his heart on the line again after a devastating betrayal. Anything beyond friendship is a risk, and could break them forever.

As Jamie’s vindictive ex causes trouble from the side-lines, a face from the past makes an unwelcome return. Jamie’s life isn’t getting back on track, it’s coming off the rails, as a series of seemingly random events lead to only one of two conclusions: either somebody’s playing a dark and sinister game, or Jamie’s losing his mind.

Tensions rise and danger approaches, drawing Jamie and Ed closer than ever. But time is running out as they race to discover not only what is happening, and why, but also what they truly mean to each other.

The third book in the Deviants Heart series, Perilous Hearts is a slow burn friends to lovers romance intertwined with dark psychological suspense. It can be read as a stand-alone and there is no need to have read the previous two books in the series. No cliff hanger and HEA guaranteed.

Mind games are so much more effective in the long run because they pick away at a person. They make even the most down-to-earth and stable types start to question and doubt themselves. Violence is too crude, though it has its place of course. But attack a person’s self-belief, and you attack and destroy the very core of them…

I must admit that I jumped into this book FIRST because the guy at the cover caught my attention. The SECOND is because the blurb had successfully intrigued me. And I’m really afraid that I will not catch the story because this is actually book three in the series. But the warning said that even this is part of the series, it still can be read as stand alone. So I decided to give this book a try….

The story successfully caught my attention right from the very beginning. The tensions and suspense the author trying to build right from the start made this book hard to put down. The main reason why I like the story is the friends-to-lovers trope this book offered me and when it combined with a psychological thriller, it made the reading become more and more interesting.

The mysteries are a bit predictable for me, I even know ‘the who' behind all the terrors right away, but I must admit the whole story still interesting enough to follow and I do enjoying every part of it.

And now I’m curious about the two previous books in this series since the guys from the previous books make some appearance in this book.

If you looking for friends-to-lovers story with a bit of psychological suspense touch, this book is one good choice.

A E Ryecart – or Ali as she’s known to many of her readers – writes contemporary mm romance and gay fiction. From the warm, sweet and fuzzy to the gritty, hard-hitting and challenging, Ali doesn’t hold back from making life just that little bit (or a lot) difficult for her men. But then who said the road to love and happiness was an easy one?

Ali’s stories are often set in London, where she was born and raised, providing the perfect metropolitan background to the main action. Now she’s older, if not wiser, and lives just outside of the big bad city with her husband, an overactive imagination, and a huge pot of coffee as she pounds the keyboard of her trusty laptop.

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