Layla’s Best of 2021

Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

This was probably my favorite book of the year. I don’t read m/m romance much, but this book had me hooked. Full of angst and tension, containing a swoon worthy romance and with a very compelling magical world, it was hard to put down.

The book opens with a scene of gruesome torture and violence, which was difficult to read, but gets going once the two leads meet. That first meeting of sporty jocular and open Robyn with icy cold reserved and scholarly Edwin was...