Nina at GayListBookReviews gives Wrestling Demons a wonderful write-up. I always love seeing what people have to say about the Brandt & Donnelly Capers, mainly because this is the first time I’ve written a series and I hope I’m doing it right! Imagine how much Nina’s closing words meant to me:

I can only hope that Brandt and Donnelly will continue to give us awesome cases and loving romance for many books to come. I would love to be able to see more of Jonah and Casey as well, and of course Bryce and Nestor. I so enjoy this world and all of the people that I have met here. It is a sweet, charming, romantic, loving, emotional, insightful and funny time every time I come here. I think it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to visit.

The entire review is available here–it’s a great read.

Nina, your review has made me a very happy man! Thank you so much.

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Alex Akira has reviewed Wrestling Demons for Rainbow Book Reviews, and I love the way this review gets underway:

Xavier Mayne’s unusual but captivating style of camp, raunch, and sweetness beautifully captures this “outed before ready” tale of two best friends who are, as the title suggests—wrestling demons.

I don’t think I’ve come across a phrase in a review that I’ve loved more than “camp, raunch, and sweetness.” I think I’ll have that cross-stitched and hung above my desk! Alex’s review is lovely throughout, of course, and it ends just as beautifully, with

something else that Xavier Mayne’s writing imparts—at the end of a marvelous, stuff-of-dreams journey filled with tenderness, comedy, sweetness, and heat—I was left with ‘hope.’

Thank you, Alex, for the wonderful review.

Read the full review here.

Wrestling Demons is available in paperback and e-book.

Christi Snow, writing at Smitten with Reading, has reviewed Wrestling Demons and given it a B (not sure how Casey and Jonah would feel about getting a B in sexytimes, but these things are subjective…). Christi really nails one of the things that I really tried to accomplish in the book, and I’m delighted that she put it into such sharp focus in her review:

This was a book much like the first in the series…it’s a gay-for-you story. There were some beautifully written scenes about sexuality and how everyone is just as they are…there’s no deciding to feel one way or other about someone. It just is. Literally, there is a scene with a bookstore clerk and what he says about being gay, or straight, or anything in between had tears rolling down my face…just beautifully spoken and such an incredible “moral to the story” about sexuality in this book.

Thanks, Christi, for your thoughtful and beautifully written review.

Read the entire review here.

Wrestling Demons is available in paperback and e-book.