There’s supposed to be a fourth book written by Tara Lain, but I don’t know who the MC is in that one. The story will be written by Eli Easton only, and I’m curious how it will be different from the two authors writing together. The next book in the series will be about the uncle, who is a detective, who came out to Donny and Angie one night. They make the perfect couple and I could believe in them as a pair. Dell helps Donny find his submissive personality that Donny was missing in his life, but didn’t know he was looking for it. I think Mike in the first book kept his emotions much more tightly wrapped up than Donny. When he was outed, I could believe in his reaction. He couldn’t stay away from Dell, but was terrified of being discovered. The authors did a good job of creating a confused Donny. I don’t mind people calling each other ‘babe’, but Dell calling Donny, ‘baby’ sounded minimizing to me. There also seemed to be a loss of intensity to Dell as an alpha type of personality. Before the climax happens, I noticed that while in private, their voices started to sound the same so that at times I had difficulty telling who was speaking. It’s hard for him to deal with Donny’s fluctuating behavior, which he calls ‘sweet at home and in-denial, out.’ Most of the time it seemed the author’s kept Dell’s and Donny’s personalities consistent, except towards the end of the story. He’s taken care of his mother and sister for most of his life so he’s used to being in control.

He’s definitely the kind of man who likes to be in charge and is very confident of his abilities. I don’t know why, but for me, this story seemed lighter and slightly more formulaic than the first book.ĭell has a strong personality.

The first book was more emotionally intense and I felt realistic, even though Donny had the same push and pull going on about whether he was gay or not and thus disappointing his father. I enjoyed this story, but not as much as book one. Which of course leaves Dell happy and disappointed at the same time. He ricochets between family and the beliefs he’s known all his life, and then back into Dell’s arms where he’s beginning to realize what he’s been missing. The finer details are about how Donny is experiencing what he believes is admiration for another firefighter until a close encounter with Dell, leaves Donny wanting more. The blurb does a good job of explaining the basic plot so I won’t go into that.

This is an excellent cover and should be included in the contests for best M/M cover of the year. It is mighty fine! I can totally picture the cover model as Dell.

I’ll start off this review by talking about the cover. This is told in first person from both Donny and Dell’s pov. It stars Donny Canali, a firefighter, and Dell Murphy, a fire pilot. Hot Wings is the second book in the ‘Hot Cannolis’ series.

Hot Wings by Eli Easton