Lovers' Knot: an m/m romance by Donald L. Hardy. 364 p.Male/male romance has become a popular (and controversial) subgenre in the last few years. It's particularly popular in e-book form, but I don't have an e-reader, so I jumped at the chance to read one in print. This one is set in 1906. Thirty-year-old Jonathan has just inherited a farm in Cornwall. He only ever spent one summer there, when he was 16 (in 1892), so he takes his best friend Alayne with him and goes to visit his new property. Jonathan is in love with Alayne but has never spoken of it, being unwilling to lose their friendship. Of course, Alayne is secretly in love with Jonathan but has never spoken of it for the same reason.
I'm fond of this plotline in a romance--longtime friends who come to realize they love each other. However, I was somewhat disappointed in this book, because most of the romance that we actually see, in flashback form, is between 16-year-old Jonathan and a farmhand named Nat. The main story concerns repercussions in 1906 of what happened in 1892, but we spend far too much time with Nat and Jonathan to suit me. It's not a bad book; it just wasn't what I wanted.
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