Let Them Try Harder

Let Them Try #2

by Reno MacLeod, Jaye Valentine

In this first sequel to Let Them Try by MacLeod and Valentine, retired Baltimore cop Rick Baker and his new lover—a fallen angel calling himself "Diego"—hit the road together to protect their secret.

Steve Wren, Rick's best friend and fellow police officer, fears for Rick's soul and also feels betrayed, so he leaves his life and wife behind in Baltimore. He travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to seek help from an isolated community of hunters.

Demon hunters.

From the glitz of Las Vegas, to a sleepy surfing town, to a chamber of horrors in the California desert, Rick and Diego hold fast to their love and try to stay one step ahead of those who would see them die.

Genres: M M Romance, Demons

ebook

First published October 31, 2010

About the author

Not For The Faint Of Heart---That sums up my work with Jaye Valentine. I've always spent a good deal of time with the darker side of my imagination. I was never afraid of the dark. In fact, some of my fondest memories are of Saturday afternoons with my dad watching Creature Double Feature with a big bowl of popcorn. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Werewolves, angels, demons and vampires were my childhood passions. I guess I never grew up.

I live in a little town famous for its historical ax-murderess, where the Ghost Hunters TAPS has a home office. Salem—famous for witches, Newport—famous for pirates, and Providence—famous for H.P.Lovecraft are all under an hour's drive. I guess I really didn't have a chance of not turning out the way I did."

Reno has also designed and created cover art for many of Reno and Jaye's books as well as the logo for StarCrossed and their website's banner art.

Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

I remember the first story in this series, despite dealing with otherworldly creatures, a mix between demons and zombies, that story was mostly naughty and odd to say funny. Diego is a naïve demon, newborn to the modern time from the middle ages and so totally like a kid in a candy store, everything catching his eyes he has to have and Rick, the almost retired cop who found him in a cemetery is part of the package. Diego attaches himself to Rick like a loyal puppy to his master, but like a puppy he needs to be take care of, and the protective Rick is the right man; a fringe benefits of the job is that having sex with Diego, and exchanging blood, Rick is growing younger day by day.

On the run from fanatics who want to send Diego back in hell, the obvious places where Rick can bring Diego to experiment his new life are Las Vegas and Los Angeles, place were lights and glitters sometime cover the ugly reality. Moreover place where appearances do count, and Rick is slowly loosing his wisdom while Diego at the same time is losing his newfound innocence; even if in danger, and on the run, Rick and Diego are doing it in a grandeur way, enjoying the decadence of being forever young while enjoying each other young bodies.

I like that, even if more like a splatter movie than a romance novel, in any case there is a underline of romanticism in the story: Rick and Diego really loves each other, and their bond is not only a way to survive, they really believe to their words when claiming there will be no other for them; what started more like a Rick taking care of Diego, now is morphing in a same level relationship, something that is reflected also in their lovemaking.

Let Them Try Harder is a nice conclusion to the previous introduction story, if you read them together you will have the whole feeling of the story; and if the authors will decide to take these men up again, there is still space for something more, after all, there are still a lot of shining and decadent location in the US where two gay guys can spend time enjoying themselves.

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[Tailtiu · Rating 4 out of 5]

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