Review: Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm

29 September of 2018 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Fabulous, wonderful story! 5+ stars.

Perfect Day By Sally Malcolm

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: August 13, 2018

Publisher: Carina Press

Synopsis

First love conquers all in Perfect Day, a captivating contemporary male/male retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

Love doesn’t burn out just because the timing’s wrong. It grows. It never leaves.

When Joshua Newton, prodigal son of one of New Milton’s elite, fell in love with ambitious young actor Finn Callaghan, his world finally made sense. With every stolen moment, soft touch and breathless kiss, they fell deeper in love.

Finn was his future…until he wasn’t.

Love stays. Even when you don’t want it to, even when you try to deny it, it stays.

Eight years later, Finn has returned to the seaside town where it all began. He’s on the brink of stardom, a far cry from the poor mechanic who spent one gorgeous summer falling in love on the beach.

The last thing he wants is a second chance with the man who broke his heart. Finn has spent a long time forgetting Joshua Newton—he certainly doesn’t plan to forgive him.

Love grows. It never leaves.

One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise : all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!

This book is approximately 63,000 words

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Fabulous, wonderful story! 5+ stars.

This seems to be my year for reading books that retell stories by famous authors. Perfect Day is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion and I LOVED it.

I must confess that I’ve never read any of Jane Austen’s books but this is the second retelling of Persuasion that I’ve read recently. While I enjoyed the first one very much this one really hit me in the feels so hard! Perfect Day is also the first book I’ve read by Sally Malcolm and I was so happy to learn that there will be a follow up novel about a different couple (half of whom we met in Perfect Day).

Perfect Day is a wonderful second chance story (read the blurb, it’s a good one) and it left me breathless in anticipation during a lot of the story. I could feel how desperately Joshua and Finn wanted each other. I could feel how angry and upset Finn was about what happened in their past and how sorry Joshua was about it.

I really can’t say much more about this wonderful book. It made me terribly sad in places and my eyes leaked. When things finally work out I cried tears of joy. If you enjoy a romance that will break you and put you back together again you need to read this.

If you’ve never read an M/M romance before, but have thought about it, I strongly recommend Perfect Day as a perfect one to start with. There is no explicit on-page sex, it’s just a really wonderful second chance romance.

LOL – I just realized how many “wonderfuls” I have in this review. Can you tell I really liked this book? 🙂

♥♥♥♥♥

O Factor: Spicy

Sally Malcolm

I cut my writing teeth on tie-in novels for the hit TV shows Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, for which I’ve written nine novels and novellas, and four audio dramas.

I branched out into romance in 2015 with my m/f historical romance The Legend of the Gypsy Hawk, but was bitten by the m/m romance bug in mid-2016 and haven’t looked back. It’s fair to say I’m obsessed with the genre, reading a couple of books a week to feed my habit. Perfect Day is my first published m/m romance, with a follow-up (Between the Lines) out later in 2018 and a dozen other ideas bubbling away on the back burner.

I live in South West London with my American husband, two lovely children, and two lazy cats.

Represented by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency.

I’m most active on Twitter–follow me @Sally_Malcolm

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