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He’s To Die For by Erin Dunn was simply one of those books that showed up, recommended to me when I was browsing. I truly do not have a cutesy little story for it. It turned up and I was like, “Yeah, I’ll read that.” The blurbs says that at twenty-nine, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD’s homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department – with his British charm, Ivy League education and penchant for designer suits – but his meteoric rise and record-breaking solve rate prove he belongs. When Rav’s boss assigns him the lead on the high-profile murder of a record executive, he is ready for the challenge. He vows not to be distracted by TV crews, tabloid or what’s trending on social media, nor the ridiculously hot rock star with a clear motive and no alibi… But as Rav gets to know his number one suspect, he realises he is so much more than criminally handsome. And, when matter of the heart collide with matters of the law...

Sometimes you just need yaoi, and that’s how I came to reading this, Seven Days Monday to Sunday by Venio Tachibana. This wasn’t actually the first Seven Days book that I saw online. I don’t remember which the first was, but with the other one that I found, it gave me the impression that it wasn’t finished, even though it may well have been. The blurb says that on a whim, high school third-year Yuzuru Shino asks out first-year Toji Seryo, who is notorious for being a weeklong lover – he’ll date the first girl to ask him out Monday morning and promptly dump her by the following Monday! The boys start dating, and by Tuesday, the first inklings of attraction hit. Can these two put words to their feelings before Monday comes, or are old habits too hard to break? First of all, absolutely loved the concept of this because I knew exactly what was going to happen. Like, the divas were going to say, “Nope, we’ve only got one week, and we’ll break up at the end of it.” But obviously, they were...