Pre-Release Review: To Take a Quiet Breath by Fearne Hill

08 November of 2021 by ButtonsMom2003

To Take a Quiet Breath By Fearne Hill

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: France, slow-burn, ex-con, hurt/comfort, illness/disability

Released: November 9, 2021

Publisher: NineStar Press

Series: Rossingley, Book 3

Length: 73,900 words

Cover Design: Natasha Snow

Synopsis

This isn’t a romance about chiseled, lantern-jawed college kids boasting V-cut abs. There are no marathon steamy sex sessions, not without having at least one nebulizer on standby anyway.

Marcel Giresse, the thirty-six-year-old Director of Finance at the French Ministry of Justice, is happy to leave all that nonsense to his oldest friend Lucien, the sixteenth Earl of Rossingley. In fact, Marcel is too short of breath and too set in his nerdy ways to ever think about sex at all. Which is a shame because the prisoner serving a sentence for murderer that he’s just interviewed is smart, intriguing, and hot as hell.

Guillaume Guilbaud is approaching forty and has wasted his best years rotting in a prison cell. The only interesting thing that has happened to him since his best friend Reuben was released is taking part in a series of interviews with a disarming and charismatic civil servant named Marcel. As if that friendship could ever materialize into anything, especially as he feels so ill-prepared for his imminent life on the outside.

But after a chance meeting at Rossingley, Guillaume finds himself renting Marcel’s annex and desperately falling for his sweet, chronically ill landlord. Which is crazy, because Marcel is celibate, posh, clever, and fundamentally out of Guillaume’s league. Furthermore, Marcel also has far too many interfering friends and concerned relatives determined to ensure he doesn’t become any more attached to the mysterious ex-con he’s shyly let into his life.

To Take a Quiet Breath is a slow-burn romance because Marcel is too breathless for a romance at any other speed. It’s about two men finding that love can quietly creep up on you no matter how many obstacles are thrown in its path and discovering that as long as an inhaler is readily at hand, anyone can swing from the chandeliers.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Another great book in this series!

To Take a Quiet Breath is the third book in the Rossingley series. You could probably read it as a standalone but I think you’ll appreciate it more if you read books one and two first.

I’ve only recently discovered Fearne Hill’s writing and I’m so glad I did. This book is so well written and the story so compelling that I couldn’t put it down once I started reading it. From the first time that Guillaume and Marcel meet, while Guillaume is still in prison, I could feel the connection between the two of them. They never expected to meet again and I wondered how Fearne Hill was going to accomplish that. I loved the way she connected this story and characters to the first two books.

I can’t really imagine living with the type of disability that Marcel has. He has to be very careful of what he does so that his breathing isn’t compromised. His past lovers haven’t been able to deal with the necessity of him having to use inhalers and nebulizers in the midst of sexy time.

Guillaume isn’t bothered by Marcel’s need for assistance with his breathing, he wants to take care of him. Guillaume is afraid that his past makes him unworthy of someone like Marcel. When that past gets thrown up in his face, he deals with it the only way he knows how.

To Take a Quiet Breath is really a lovely slow-burn romance with inventive sexual encounters and MCs who can laugh during sexy time. I loved the “Asthma Sutra” that Guillaume and Marcel come up with. This story really touched my heart and I’m glad there will be another story in this series.

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O Factor: Spicy

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About Author

Fearne Hill lives deep in the southern British countryside with three untamed sons, varying numbers of hens, a few tortoises, and a beautiful cocker spaniel.

When she is not overseeing her small menagerie, she enjoys writing contemporary romantic fiction. And when she is not doing either of those things, she works as an anesthesiologist.

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