#book #review The Perfect Holiday by T.J. Emerson
Would you kill to be here?
Olivia and Julian are enjoying lazy days in their Spanish villa, a well deserved break from their busy lives. Especially for Julian, who after a lifetime as a carer was thrust into the public eye following the tragic murder of his first wife.
The languid heat and peace of the villa is broken only by clifftop walks, sun drenched lunches and cooling swims. Until a chance encounter with Gabriel – an attractive man, many years their junior – changes everything.
Soon their idyllic break turns into a dangerous, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse. Will any of them get out alive?
REVIEW
Ok so I read a couple of reviews when I reached Chapter 4 as I didn’t know this story was going to have a MM relationship in it, not that it bothered me, I just wasn’t expecting it. So upon reading some reviews and then subsequently finishing the book I can say either I have read a heavily edited book or people have a strange definition of ‘graphic’ when it came to the men being together! There is no, I repeat no graphic sexual scenes at all in this book – it is heavily eluded to and skimmed over what they actually did.
So that aside lets talk about this book.
This story is told from the past and present life of Julian. We know that is first wife died and he was her main carer for the majority of their life together. After she was murdered he thrust into the public eye and uses his wife’s death to set up a charity to help fellow carers
When Julian and Olivia are enjoying a well deserved break in their Spanish villa, they meet a man called Gabriel who is very attractive and much younger than they are, we learn that Julian actually knows Gabriel from his old life and we are treated to a story that sees them both enter a game of cat and mouse. Julian will do anything to keep his secrets safe and Gabriel knows more than we realise!
